[The adaptive mechanisms of cardio- and angioprotective action of reflexotherapy].

The adaptive mechanisms of action of reflexotherapy are analysed. It was shown in physiological and biochemical experiments on the whole organism, the isolated hearts and strips of resistive arteries of animals that stimulation of acupuncture points by different physical factors increased the activity of opioid, antioxidative, and other stress-limiting systems, reduced secretion of corticosteron during stress, stimulated biosynthesis of stress proteins, induced cyto- and cardioprotective effects, prevented or limited functional and structural hyperadrenal damages. Clinical investigations demonstrated significant hypothensive, anti-ishemic and anti-arrhythmic effects of reflexotherapy, improved resistance of healthy subjects and patients with cardiovascular diseases to physical and emotional loadings.

[Reflexotherapy in the context of rehabilitative medicine].

The main stages of the history of reflexotheray and its principal methodological aspects are reviewed in the context of the introduction of this approach into rehabilitative medicine. Productive results of such integration find the demonstrative reflection in the defense of 56 theses for the degree of candidate of science and 28 ones for the degree of doctor of science devoted to various aspects of reflexotherapy. The growing tendency toward the more extensive application of non-pharmacological approaches to complementary medicine opens up new prospects for the further development of reflexotherapy in the context of modern health care practices.

[The application of trans-auricular low-frequency electrical puncture for the treatment of arterial hypertension].

Clinical studies involving 67 patients with arterial hypertension (AH) have demonstrated that a single course of trans-auricular low-frequency electrical puncture produced a marked stress-relieving effect that was manifested as the decreased anxiety level, normalization of neurohumoral regulation of arterial pressure and central hemodynamics, improved tolerance of controlled psycho-emotional loading, beneficial effect on cerebral blood circulation, lipid and electrolyte metabolism. In addition, the proposed therapeutic modality resulted in substantial reduction of arterial pressure. Taken together, these observations give reason to consider it as a promising tool for the treatment of patients presenting with arterial hypertension.

[Application of contrast thermopuncture for the treatment of dorsopathies].

The objective of this work was to study the possibility of replacing acupuncture variants of reflexotherapy of dorsopathies by non-invasive procedures, such as thermopuncture at biologically active points. Mechanisms of action of contrast thermopuncture were elucidated. Its clinical efficiency for the rehabilitative treatment of cervical and thoracic dorsopathies was demonstrated.

Effect of transauricular electroacupuncture on stress-induced changes in cognitive function and erosions of the gastric mucosa in rats.

Transauricular electroacupuncture prevented stress-induced increase in the degree of anxiety and suppression of exploratory activity in rats. This procedure significantly accelerated decision-making process during acute stress in both control and prestressed rats. Transauricular electroacupuncture decreased the number and area of erosions by producing a pronounced antistress effect at the central and peripheral levels.

[Use of traditional methods in medicine for treating moderately severe bronchial asthma].

Minor therapeutic "cups" bloodletting, a variety of little known in Russia but conventional in China method, was compared in efficiency to chemotherapy, acupuncture and phytotherapy in allergic and non-allergic forms of bronchial asthma. The bloodletting alone or in combination with acupuncture and phytotherapy stabilizes the course of asthma and prevents asthmatic attacks, reduces routine doses of necessary broncholytics and glucocorticosteroids.

[The use of an electrosleep method for restoring the performance capacity and relieving the psychoemotional stress of athletes in cyclic sports].

44 boat-racing sportsmen entered the study which aimed at elucidation of electric sleep action on restoration of muscular performance and relief of psychoemotional stress. The electric sleep procedures were found to stimulate regeneration processes, improve cardiovascular function and myocardial contractility, normalise arterial and capillary tonicity, to potentiate muscular performance and aerobic power of the body.

[The use of apparatus-supported physiotherapy for the accelerated recovery and enhancement of sports performance].

The effects of physiotherapeutic factors such as electric sleep, sinusoidal modulated currents. UV radiation, interference currents, decimeter waves, laser radiation were studied in 600 sportsmen active in cyclic and acyclic sports. Recommended are both single and course procedures because the above factors are found to diminish immunodeficiency and to increase muscular performance in sportsmen.

[The dynamics of the cerebral circulation under the influence of laser therapy in patients with circulatory encephalopathy].

The cerebral circulation was rheoencephalographically studied in 23 patients before the first session and after a course of pulse laser exposures at 80 Hz and at a wavelength of 0.89 microns. There was a positive dynamics in 42.

[The differential use of electrosleep for restoring the work capacity of athletes].

A comparative study has been made of the effects which might be produced on body functions of athletes by electric sleep. The induction of the sleep was conducted using square electric pulses with 10 and 100 Hz frequencies. The latter frequency (8-10 sleep procedures) stimulated the examinees somatically and psychologically, whereas electrotherapeutic sleep procedures at 10 Hz displayed sedative effects and thus were indicated for overstrained sportsmen and in some diseases.

[Experimental research on the physicochemical action of impulse currents when applied transcerebrally].

Thymocyte function and lipid peroxidation in cell membranes of the cerebral cortex and the myocardium of 72 rats were examined to study the stress-limiting mechanism of 10 and 1000 Hz impulse current effect. The additional measurements were as follows: rat and thymus weight, their proportional relations, thymocyte nuclear population, 11--OCS, thyroid hormones (T3, T4), plasma testosterone and insulin, myocardial and cerebral cortical protein. The animals were immobilized for 6 days in individual tight cages where they had food and water.

[Brain bioelectrical activity in the victims of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station].

Visual and quantitative evaluation of EEG with the help of frequency analysis conducted in subjects exposed to radiation hazards after the Chernobyl accident revealed changes indicative of cerebral mesodiencephalic impairment. The subjects may have defect of compensatory-adaptive mechanisms of the brain provoking high excitability and stress-readiness. The authors believe that such subjects are in need of stress-limiting chemo- and physiotherapy.

[The effect of adaptation to a course of stress-inducing electrostimulation on the reactivity of an isolated resistive artery].

Repeated stress adaptation made with a course of electrostimulation was found to result in changes in the responsiveness of the rat isolated tail artery taken from adapted animals. These changes appeared as decreased vasoconstrictive responses to norepinephrine and significantly higher endothelium-dependent vasodilation induced by acetylcholine and the beta-agonist isoproterenol. The regulatory shift occurred towards vasodilation of the resistive artery makes the studies of the impact of stress adaptation on blood pressures in hypertension promising.

[The function of the bronchial system in patients with rheumatoid arthritis].

The authors studied the functional indices of the bronchopulmonary system in 23 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The vital capacity of the lungs (VCL), indices of bronchial patency: relation of the forced exhalation volume during the 1st second to VCL (FEV/VCL), the rate of the air flow of the forced exhalation when recording the curve the flow-volume (FEV)--peak (Vpeak), the rate in decreasing lung volumes, in 25, 50 and 75% of the whole volume of the forced exhalation (V25, V50, V75). VCL was not decreased in any of the cases, FEV1/VCL comprised 80.

[The effect of acupuncture on the hemodynamics and tolerance for physical loads in patients with cardiovascular diseases].

Discontinuation of chemotherapy substituted for a course of acupuncture and electroacupuncture in 124 patients with coronary heart disease, essential hypertension and neurocirculatory dystonia resulted in a positive response of cerebral and peripheral hemodynamics, myocardial contractility and diastolic function. Myocardial hypertrophy regressed, exercise tolerance enhanced. Reflex activation of stress-limiting systems arresting excess adrenergic action on circulation is probably responsible for these phenomena.