Evidence Details for Sanyinjiao
PMID Title Journal Year Abstract
15185864 A comparative study of the effects of electroacupuncture and moxibustion in the gastrointestinal motility of the rat. Dig Dis Sci. 2004 Apr;49(4):602-10. doi: 10.1023/b:ddas.0000026305.20852.41. 2004 Apr We compared the outcomes of the stimulation of specific sets of acupoints with either acupuncture or moxibustion over peristalsis. Twenty-five plastic beads were orally administered in the stomach of the rats and 90 min later animals were sacrificed, the stomach and small intestine were opened, and the number of beads remaining in each segment was counted. Forty rats were immobilized for 20 min and stimulated at either abdominal or hindlimbs acupoints, with either electroacupuncture or moxibustion. Under this restraint (stress) condition electroacupuncture at hindlimb points or moxibustion at abdominal points significantly enhanced gastric emptying (P < 0.02) as well as intestinal motility compared with animals subjected only to immobilization and not stimulated with electroacupuncture or moxibustion. We conclude that the effects of different acupoints and modes of stimulation (electrical vs. moxibustion) over gastrointestinal motility in rats subjected to restraint-induced stress is not uniform and discuss the different neural pathways underlying these differences."

Evidence Sentence: These animals were subjected to a similar protocol as group IMMO except that during the 20-min period of immobilization these animals were subjected to electroacupuncture (2 Hz/1 V/20 min; KWD 808-II electrostimulator; China) on acupoints ST-36 (Zusanli) and SP-6(Sanyinjiao), located on the hindlimb.