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| Japanese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Online) |
| 2009; 1: 1-11 |
| Effect of Acupuncture Treatment in Patients with Bronchial Asthma |
| SUZUKI Masao 1), NAMURA Kenji 2), EGAWA Masato 3), YANO Tadashi 1) |
| 1) Department of Health Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Meiji University of Oriental Medicine, 2) Department of Respiratory Internal Medicine, 3) Department of Geriatric Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Meiji University of Oriental Medicine |
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| Figure 2: Changes in subjective experiences of dyspnea accompanying asthma symptoms before and after acupuncture |
| Changes in subjective experiences of breathing difficulty accompanying asthma symptoms before the start and at the end of acupuncture treatment are shown. The vertical axis indicates strength of subjective breathing difficulty evaluated by VAS, and the horizontal axis indicates one series from the period before and after acupuncture treatment. Subjective experience of breathing difficulty accompanying asthma symptoms was significantly improved at the end of the acupuncture treatment in comparison with that before the start in each series of treatment. Period A: period with acupuncture Period B: period of treatment without acupuncture |