Frequency Response of the Foot-Yangming Stomach Channel: Zu-San-Li and Xian-Gu
NCT ID: NCT01362166
Last Updated: 2011-05-30
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Basic Information
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UNKNOWN
30 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2011-05-31
Brief Summary
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The Zu-San-Li is the open acupoint on foot-Yangming channel, the stomach channel. Qi, the main concept in TCM, will flow from the open acupoint to go into deep internal organs. Xian-Gu is another Yu acupoint on foot-Yangming channel. The inborn original Qi flows from the Yu acupoint infuse into blood vessels. So in this study the investigators will take these two acupoints for the acupuncture. Since the direction of the channel is from Zu-San-Li to Xian-Gu, the investigators pick Zu-San-Li as the input and Xian-Gu the output for the electrical signals.
For this experiment, the investigators planned enrolling 30 male sub-healthy volunteers, aged in 20-35 years old, to finish the whole experiment procedures.
After the acupuncture, the electric signals of different modes will be input from the subject's open acupoint (Zu-San-Li), and measure the frequency respond voltage from the output acupoint (Xian-Gu).
Each subject must complete the acupuncture of Zu-San-Li and Xian-Gu, and be input 5 sets of the electric signals of different modes two times on the trial. The variety conditions of the wave form and electric voltage will be recorded and measured respectively.
The investigators plan to obtain the data in six months, and complete the data analysis and sorting in two months.
Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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CASE_ONLY
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* in normal mental state, can match with the researcher
* would like to obey the experiment 24-hour related rules
* sign the written agreement
Exclusion Criteria
* Get myocardial infarction, heart failure, and the other heavy diseases
* The mental state is unsteady.
* Female.
* Does not sign the written agreement.
20 Years
35 Years
MALE
Yes
Sponsors
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China Medical University, China
OTHER
China Medical University Hospital
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Institution of the Integrated Medicine
Principal Investigators
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Fun-jou Chen, Prof.
Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
China Medical University, China
Locations
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China Medical University
Taichung, , Taiwan
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Facility Contacts
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Bin-Han Lin, MD
Role: primary
Fun-jou Chen, Prof.
Role: backup
References
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Other Identifiers
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DMR100-IRB-034
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id