title: Effect of blood-letting puncture at twelve well-points of hand on consciousness and heart rate in patients with apoplexy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe the effect of blood-letting puncture at Twelve Well-Points of Hand on consciousness and heart rate in patients with early apoplexy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Under observation were patients with disturbance of consciousness within 3 days after the apoplectic seizure. The patients were divided into a large injury team, a moderate injury team and a mild injury team. Each team was again randomly divided into a puncture group and a control group, with routine treatment in both groups but blood-letting puncture only in the puncture group. Quantitative changes in consciousness, blood pressure and heart rate of the patients were observed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Blood-letting puncture at Twelve Well-Points of Hand can improve the consciousness and raise the systolic pressure in patients of the mild injury team, and accelerate the heart rate in all the patients in the puncture group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Blood-letting puncture at Twelve Well-Points of Hand can improve the consciousness of patients with brain injury in small area.
authors.affiliation: Tianjin College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China.
authors.forename: Guo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Wang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xiuyun
authors.forename: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tangping
authors.forename: Dai
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhihua
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yunchen
mesh_terms: D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods; D000368:Aged; D001815:Bloodletting / Q000379:methods; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D003243:Consciousness; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020521:Stroke / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D014474:Unconsciousness / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy