[Effect of He's method of acupuncture on serological levels in patients with acute ischaemic stroke].

Objectives: To investigate the repair effects of He's method of acupuncture (involved bloodletting technique with strong action of unblocking) on the neurovascular unit of the patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) in terms of serological indicators so as to provide new ideas for the treatment of AIS.

Methods: Seventy subjects with AIS were randomly divided into an observation group (35 cases, 1 case dropped out) and a control group (35 cases , 4 cases dropped out). Patients in the control group were treated with conventional regimen.

Effect of moxibustion on ATP-sensitive potassium channel (K) of bladder in detrusor overactivity rats.

Objectives: To observe the effect of ginger-salt-partitioned moxibustion on ATP-sensitive potassium (K) channel of bladder in detrusor overactivity (DO) rats.

Methods: Female SD rats were randomly divided into sham operation, model, moxibustion and antagonist groups (=9 in each group). Thorax (T) 10 spinal cord transection was performed by surgery.

[Overview on the modern development of fire needling device: from tradition to innovation].

The appropriate needle device is crucial for obtaining the curative effect of fire needling therapy. The article introduces the material specification, clinical operation, indications, characteristics and advantages of the contemporary traditional fire needling devices (e.g.

[Innovation, development and application of contemporary fire needling].

Physicians in the past dynasties have improved the theory of fire needling from the aspects of fire needling instruments, clinical efficacy, application scope, operation, precautions, etc., which promoted the clinical application of fire needling. Modern fire needling breaks through the traditional clinical taboos such as heat syndrome, face, forbidden acupoints, and no needle retention.

[Effect of fire-needle intervention on joint function, cartilage impairment and inflammatory response in knee osteoarthritis rats].

Objective: To observe the effect of fire-needle stimulation of "Neixiyan"(EX-LE4) and "Dubi"(ST35) on changes of motor function, structure of cartilage degradation and inflammatory factors in knee osteoarthritis (KOA) rats, so as to explore its underlying mechanisms in improving KOA.

Methods: Thirty-nine male SD rats were randomly divided into normal, model and fire-needle groups (＝13 in each group). The KOA model was established by injection of Monoiodoacetate (MIA, 1 mg) into the lumen of the right knee joint.

[Summarization of professor He Pu-ren's channel syndrome differentiation for treatment of complicated and difficult diseases].

Channel syndrome differentiation is a more commonly-used syndrome differentiation method of Professor HE Pu-ren clinically, which includes the 3 aspects: differentiation of diseases and syndromes on the channel parts along the body surface; differentiation of diseases and syndromes of the internal organs connected with the channels; differentiation of qi and blood of the channels. According to results of the channel syndrome differentiation, with flexible application of the HE's Santong methods and selection of corresponding treatment program, many complicated and difficult diseases are cured.

Assessment the genetic diversity of Auricularia strains by two PCR-based typing methods.

Two PCR-based methods, enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus-PCR (ERIC-PCR) and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), were adopted for differentiating Auricularia strains. Taken the similarity coefficient as 75%, 29 strains of three Auricularia species were grouped into 6 and 9 clusters by RAPD and ERIC, respectively. The dendrogram from ERIC exhibited two distinct parts, one representing A.