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Ipsi- and Contralateral Moxibustion Generate Similar Analgesic Effect on Inflammatory Pain
- Source :
- Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Vol 2019 (2019), Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Hindawi Limited, 2019.
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Abstract
- The aim of this study was to investigate whether contralateral moxibustion would generate a similar analgesic effect with ipsilateral moxibustion. Contra- and ipsilateral moxibustion were separately applied to Zusanli (ST36) acupoints of inflammatory pain mice. The analgesic effect was evaluated, respectively, by licking/biting time (LBT) of formalin-induced inflammatory pain and thermal withdrawal latency (TWL) of complete Freund’s adjuvant- (CFA-) induced inflammatory pain. For formalin-induced pain, compared with formalin group, the total LBT of ipsi- and contralateral moxibustion reduced in both phase I and phase II, but there was no significant difference between ipsi- and contralateral moxibustion. For CFA-induced inflammatory pain, compared with CFA group, TWL of ipsi- and contra-Moxi groups increased immediately after moxibustion intervention; however there was no obvious difference between ipsi- and contralateral moxibustion at any timepoint. It indicated that contralateral moxibustion had a similar analgesic effect with ipsilateral moxibustion in both formalin- and CFA-induced pain. These results suggest that both ipsi- and contralateral moxibustion could be applied for pain relief.
- Subjects :
- Analgesic effect
0303 health sciences
Article Subject
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Significant difference
Withdrawal latency
lcsh:Other systems of medicine
Moxibustion
Zusanli
lcsh:RZ201-999
Inflammatory pain
body regions
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Biting
Complementary and alternative medicine
Anesthesia
medicine
Licking
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Research Article
030304 developmental biology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 17414288 and 1741427X
- Volume :
- 2019
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fca1e42360e076ad5108aa8eacd66b0b
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/1807287