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Vopr Kurortol Fizioter Lech Fiz Kult
July 2015
FGBU 'RNTs meditsinskoj reabilitatsii i kurortologii' Minzdrava Rossii, ul. Novyj Arbat, 32, Moskva, Rossijskaja Federatsija, 121099.
The present study included 94 patients presenting with bronchial asthma (BA) who underwent the controlled treatment during one year. The treatment consisted of basal anti-asthmatic therapy in combination with acupuncture reflexotherapy or a complex of non-invasive reflexotherapeutic methods (CNIRTM) designed to increase the effectiveness of correction of asthma, to improve the clinical status of the patients, to decrease by more than two-fold the frequency of unstable episodes of the disease showing the well-apparent seasonal dependence, and to diminish the consumption of pharmaceuticals (reduction of the mean daily dose of prednisolone by 31% and 37% in comparison with its 79% increase in the patients receiving the standard treatment). Moreover, it was shown that the achievement of clinical and preventive effect of the application of non-pharmacological methods may be associated with the activation of the mechanisms of adaptation to the stress factors (such as correction of the cortisol blood level and parameters of the immune status, etc.
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February 2009
Zh Nevropatol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova
March 1991
Psychological personality profiles were evaluated in 87 patients with bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive bronchitis treated by means of acupuncture. The data point to the improvement of psychological state and reduction of pathological types in patients that run parallel with their clinical improvement. The transition from one pathological state to another having a more benign course was also observed.
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