Ecco per gli interessati un emendamento al decreto Balduzzi concernente le Medicine non Convenzionali; per ufficializzarne alcune, e per regolamentarle.

«Art. 13-bis.

(Disposizioni in materia di regolamentazione delle medicine non convenzionali) Leggi tutto...

Viene alla mia osservazione una paziente che nel marzo 1999 ha presentato infarto del miocardio trattato con angioplastica e nel novembre dello stesso anno ictus ischemico temporale e nucleare sx con emiplegia dx e afasia. Ha una lunga serie di ricoveri ospedalieri con:
-intervento di rivascolarizzazione cerebrale mediante tromboendoarteriectomia carotide int.dx e posizionamento di un patch nel marzo del 2000.
-intervento di osteosintesi per frattura del collo del femore. Frattura del bacino e della 1 vertebra lombare. Leggi tutto...

The Authors have explored a new complementary approach, employed in the last 40 years for, among other uses, medical purposes: oxygen-ozone therapy. Anecdotal works have highlighted interesting results obtained in disk herniation with infiltration of paravertebral muscles with oxygen-ozone.

To verify the existence of a nociceptive effect and investigate a possible mechanism of action, an experimental model of edema induction by subcutaneous capsaicin injection in the rat paw was employed. Leggi tutto...

The modality of needle stimulation in acupuncture is part of the concept of the ìintensityî of the stimulation, a variable indicating the ìdosageî of the treatment administered.

In this study we intend to compare the effect of superficial and deep needle insertion in the leg ipsilateral or contralateral to the paw treated with capsaicin. Leggi tutto...

Neurogenic inflammation, includes vasodilation, the increase of vasal permeability and edema due to the release of neuromediators from nerve endings.

A modulation of the release of neurotransmitters, from nerve endings and neurogenic inflammation related phenomena, was observed with the administration of drugs or of neurotransmitters inhibiting the release of neuropeptides from capsaicin-sensible neurons, among which morphine and other endogenous agonist opioids seem to be effective. Leggi tutto...

In questo lavo gli Autori propongono uno schema per una ricerca policentrica sul trattamento delle cefalee primarie mediante agopuntura.

In esso vengono riportate delle note classificative delle algie del capo, elementi per l’inquadramemo nosologico delle varie forme e cenni di diagnosi differenziale fra di esse. Leggi tutto...

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The Authors report their experience with the placebo, an essential step in the clinical study of reflexotherapy.

They assert that also in this branch of medicine it is possible to carry out a "double blind" clinical experimentation by means of placebo, that is, an essential condition in order to develop a scientific assessment of both the limits and the potentialities of reflexotherapy.
 

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Ketamine, 2-(0-chlorophenyl)-2-(methylamino)-cyclohexanone, is a general anesthetic which on awakening produces psychic disturbance correlated with the metabolism of serotonin.

Since it is know that acupuncture increases cerebral serotonin, the blood levels of total and free tryptophan, its precursor, were studied in healthy volunteers to find out if the anti-hallucinatory action of acupuncture is dependent on an increase in cerebral serotonin.

The authors studied the effects of acupuncture and pentazocine on post-operative respiratory function and pain management on patients hysterectomized by means of a subumbilical midline incision.

The acupunctural technique consisted of GB-26, St-36, Sp-6 and auricular Shen-Men bilateral electrostimulation for 40 minutes. Leggi tutto...

The Authors have investigated the antihallucinogenic and sedative effects of auricular points R and shen menn during surgery under ketamine anesthesia.

The results demonstrate that the insertion of the needle in point R is very efficient in reducing hallucinations of ketamine emergence, while the insertion of needle in auricular point shen menn causes only a brief period of sedation in the beginning of the emergence period.

The acupunctural technique employed by the Authors has been shown to increase considerably approbation of ketamine anesthesia.