Evidence Details for Shuigou
PMID Title Journal Year Abstract
18955337 Ten Years Evidence-based High-Tech Acupuncture Part 3: A Short Review of Animal Experiments. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2010 Jun;7(2):151-5. doi: 10.1093/ecam/nen034. Epub 2008 Nov 5. 2010 Jun High-tech acupuncture research has been performed for 10 years at the Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Medical University of Graz. This article as a part of a series comprises animal experiments in the field of needle and laser acupuncture. The investigations presented in this article were performed in pigs, dogs and sheep. In all studies sedative stimulation effects of the acupoint Yintang are described using different measurement parameters (EEG-bispectral index, EEG spectral edge frequency and metabolic parameters)."

Evidence Sentence: The order of stimulation conditions (needle acupuncture at Yintang, laser stimulation at Yintang, needle acupuncture at Renzhong and needle acupuncture at a control point) was randomized, and the interval between the test trials was at least 5 min.