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The Clinical and Mechanism Study on Acupuncture for Relifing the Labour Pain |
Hits 1321 Download times 2025 Received:March 11, 2006 |
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DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1673-9043.2006.02.07 |
Key Words
acupuncture;your pain;first stage of labour |
Author Name | Affiliation | LI Ping | The First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | LIU Xue-wen | 天津中医药大学 300193 |
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Abstract
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[Objective] To research the mechanism of acupuncture for relifing labour pain. [Methods] To evaluate the effect for relifing labour pain, we used Keele staff diagram grade-evaluating method and VRS pain-classifying method as the observation. To observe the effect of acupuncture on mother and infant, such as the stages of labor of the parturient were recorded. To research the mechanism of relifing labour pain,we observed the concentration changes of β-EP and 5-HT in the blood of parturient before and after acupunctured. [Result] The acupuncture can effectively relieve labour pain in the first stage of labor. And compared with the comparing group, it differed significantly (P<0.05) and had no harmful effects on the mother and infant. This method can obviously improve the concentration of β-EP and 5-HT in the blood of parturient. [Conclusion] Taking the acupuncture as the means of relifing labour pain has the merits of convenient manipulation, safety, reliable effect on analgesia and without side effect and so on. The effect of acupuncture for relifing lohour pain may be produced by the joint-work of CNS and directly effect on the uteri. |
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