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Effects of Acupuncture and Moxibustion at Lower Sea Points on the Intestinal Motility with Loperamide-Induced Constipation in Rats

위, 소장, 대장의 하합혈 침구자극이 Loperamide로 유발된 변비의 장관 운동성에 미치는 영향

  • Yu, Yun-Cho (Department of Physiology, College of Oriental Medicine, Woosuk University) ;
  • Kwon, O-Sang (Acupuncture, Moxibustion & Meridian Research Group Division of Medical Research, KIOM) ;
  • Yang, Seung-Bum (Department of Meridian & Acupoint, College of Korean Medicine, Wonkwang University) ;
  • Kim, Min-Su (Department of Meridian & Acupoint, College of Korean Medicine, Wonkwang University) ;
  • Kim, Jaehyo (Department of Meridian & Acupoint, College of Korean Medicine, Wonkwang University)
  • 유윤조 (우석대학교 한의과대학 생리학교실) ;
  • 권오상 (한국한의학연구원 의료연구본부 침구경락연구그룹) ;
  • 양승범 (원광대학교 한의과대학 경혈학교실) ;
  • 김민수 (원광대학교 한의과대학 경혈학교실) ;
  • 김재효 (원광대학교 한의과대학 경혈학교실)
  • Received : 2013.11.18
  • Accepted : 2013.12.17
  • Published : 2013.12.27
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Abstract

Objectives : The aim of this study was to observe effects of manual acupuncture(MA), electro-acupuncture(EA) and moxibustion (MO) on the rat with loperamide-induced constipation. Methods : This study measured small intestinal motility and number of fecal pellets in rats with loperamide induced constipation. MA and EA(intensity, 5 times muscle twitch threshold) was applied for 30 minutes and MO was treated on 5 times moxa cautery to the groups divided with age and sex. Results : The small intestinal motility was decreased by ST36 EA and ST37 EA in 5 weeks male group and ST37 EA in 7 weeks male and female groups, and ST36 MO in 7 weeks female group, but it was increased by ST39 EA in 7 weeks male group and ST37 MO and ST39 MO in 7 weeks male group. The number of fecal pellets was decreased by MA, EA, MO of ST36 in all group except 5, 7 weeks male groups only, and MA, EA of ST37 in 5, 7 weeks male group and ST37 MO in 7 weeks female group, and ST39 EA in 5 weeks male group and 7 weeks female group and ST39 MO in 7 weeks female group, but increased by ST37 EA in 5 weeks female group and ST39 EA in 7 weeks male group. Conclusions : Although these differences do not have a established tendency, it suggests that acupuncture and moxibustion are experimentally dependent upon the sex and age on intestinal motility in rats.

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