PMID- 25906574
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150611
LR  - 20150424
IS  - 0255-2930 (Print)
IS  - 0255-2930 (Linking)
VI  - 35
IP  - 1
DP  - 2015 Jan
TI  - [Primary discussion of qualitative and quantitative recognition on deqi after 
      acupuncture: a study report of West China School of Medicine].
PG  - 67-71
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To determine the recognition of healthy medical students on deqi after 
      acupuncture, reveal the qualitative and quantitative rules of deqi and understand 
      whether these rules are the factors of the clinical application of acupuncture 
      therapy. METHODS: The class questionnaires were used for the investigation study 
      on the understanding of deqi after acupuncture at Hegu (LI 4) or Zusanli (ST 36) 
      in 86 healthy students in the clinical medicine class. RESULTS: (1) Deqi was a 
      kind of complicated compound feelings, with many sensation qualities such as 
      distending pain, distension and pain. (2) Deqi was a kind of mild and moderate 
      sensations. In 10-score credit sys tem of Massachusetts General Hospital 
      acupuncture sensation scale (MASS), the scores of distending pain (4.69 +/- 
      2.83), distension (4.39 +/- 2.91) and soreness and distension (3.93 +/- 2.93) 
      were around 5 (moderate degree), the scores of stabbing pain (1.89 +/- 2.02) were 
      around 2 (mild degree). (3) The differences in the quantitative scores were 
      significant for stabbing pain, distending pain, distention, soreness and 
      distention and the others before and after treatment (all P<0.05). CONCLUSION: 
      Deqi of acupuncture is the mild and moderate complicated sensations manifested as 
      distension, soreness, pain and numbness. As the invasive therapy, the filiform 
      needle puncture will bring a certain psychological impacts on the receptors. The 
      subjective sensation is possibly the factor for the patients' selection of 
      acupuncture treatment.
FAU - Pan, Hui
AU  - Pan H
FAU - Zhao, Yu
AU  - Zhao Y
FAU - Li, Jia
AU  - Li J
FAU - Wen, Qian
AU  - Wen Q
FAU - Li, Ning
AU  - Li N
LA  - chi
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - China
TA  - Zhongguo Zhen Jiu
JT  - Zhongguo zhen jiu = Chinese acupuncture & moxibustion
JID - 8600658
SB  - IM
MH  - Acupuncture Points
MH  - Acupuncture Therapy/instrumentation/*methods
MH  - Adult
MH  - China
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Needles
MH  - *Qi
MH  - Schools, Medical
MH  - *Sensation
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2015/04/25 06:00
MHDA- 2015/06/13 06:00
CRDT- 2015/04/25 06:00
PHST- 2015/04/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/04/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/06/13 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2015 Jan;35(1):67-71.