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Acupuncture Helps Brain Hemorrhage






Comment from Dr. Mladenoff


Cranial acupuncture was added to a drug based treatment protocotol for cerebral hemorrhage. Treatment started 4 days post trauma.


Subjects were treated 1x/day for 10 consecutive days.


IL-6 was measured before treatment began and at the conclusion of 10 day treatment protocol.


There was a significant decrease in IL-6 in the acupuncture treated group. This is of great importance because a high enough elevated IL-6 immediately after head trauma is an indicator of a potential  ominous event. This finding indicates that cranial acupuncture is a valuable addition to head traum treatment protocols.


In addition there was also significant improvement neurological function scores.
Effect of cranial needling combined with medicine on IL-6 in the patient of acute cerebral hemorrhage]
Yi-Zao Zhao, Chang-De Yu
Zhongguo Zhen Jiu, Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion 2008, 28 (8): 569-72

ABSTRACT:
OBJECTIVE: To explore the mechanism of cranial needling in treatment of acute intracerebral hemorrhage.

METHODS: Forty-three cases were randomly divided into a cranial needling plus medication group (n=21) and a medication group (n=22). The cranial needling plus medication group were treated with needling skull suture 4 days after the attack, once each day, for 10 sessions, on the basis of routine neurological treatment measures. The medication group were treated with the routine neurological treatment measures. Changes of the scores of neural function defect and IIL-6 contents before and after treatment were compared.

RESULTS: The IL-6 contents before and after treatment were (11.29 +/- 8.63) pg/mL and (1.91 +/- 1.02) pg/mL in the cranial needling plus medication group, and (12.15 +/- 7.23) pg/mL and (3.61 +/- 2.71) pg/mL in the medication group, respectively, with very significant differences before and after treatment (P<0.01), and with a significant difference between the two groups after treatment (P<0.05). There were very significant differences in the score of neural function defect before and after treatment in the two groups (P<0.01), and there was a significant difference between the two groups after treatment (P<0.05).

CONCLUSION: On the basis of medication, cranial needling can promote rapid decrease of serum IL-6 content and improve nervous function in the patient of acute cerebral hemorrhage.
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