Acupuncture in Brain Damages (strokes,cerebral palsy,injuries) - a suggestion of synaptic bypasses

Abstract

In the second part of his paper the author presents results of acupuncture treatment of brain damages (strokes, injuries, cerebral palsy) in adults and children.

In the last three years more than 300 adult patients and 70 children with various kinds and stages of brain damages were treated. They were treated both by the classic needeling (local points, distant points etc.) and the special kind of electrostimulation. The improvement could be reached in about 70% patients, especially in bettering of locomotive functions, reducing the spascticty, strenghtening the mental health and improvement of other affiliated problems as pain, swelling, vertigo etc.

The most frequent used meridians and points were large intestine (4,10,11,15), gall bladder (30,31,34, 39), governing vessel (15,16,20), stomach (36), trippie warmer (5,15), heart (5,7), conception vessel (23) etc. The needles were usually inserted ipsilaterally.

In some patients (especially apallics) we observed a considerable, extraordinary progress after a special kind of a simultaneous electrostimulation and connection of acu-points with certain brain areas through the brain-acupuncture (skull acupuncture) according to the Vienna school of acupuncture (H. Zeitler).

We have a special device, producing direct current, fréquentions 80-180 Hz, peaks, negative and positive pulses, connected with the inserted needles.

There are some hints that special new connections of neurons (via dendrites) are forming by this way of acupuncture stimulation, similar to the coronary bypasses. Therefore a suggestion of so called “synaptic bypasses” could be expressed which allows to explain so massive renewal of failed functions (locomotive, congitive etc.).

Nevertheless a deep alalysis must be done before making valid conclusions.

In the next future we should like to go on with the research of this phenomenon either to bring evidences or invalidate this suggestion by means of the PET, fMRI and other methods of the EBM.