title: [Parabiosis theory and effective stimulating amount, reinforcing-reducing, therapeutic time and course of acupuncture].
abstract: Parabiosis theory clearly expounds the change course of stimulatiom, namely, parabiotic equalization phase, parabiotic deregulation phase and parabiotic inhibition phase, and it can clearly explain that the effective stimulating amount is directly related to the reinforcing or reducing, and establishment of the therapeutic course. That is, the large effective stimulating amount is reducing method and the small effective stimulating amount is reinforcing method. In clinical application, for deficiency syndrome and chronic diseases, the effective intensity of acuti puncture should be smaller and the needle should be retained for 20-30 min, and for excess syndrome and acute disd eases, the effective stimulating intensity of acupuncture should be larger and the needle should be retained for longer time. In acupuncture treatment, acupoints should be grouped and used alternately, and the interval between therapeutic courses should be established.
authors.affiliation: TCM College, Chongqing University of Medical Sciences, Chongqing 400050, China. bill.tcm@163.com
authors.forename: Biao
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: Chang-qing
authors.initials: CQ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D026881:Acupuncture; D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D006801:Humans; D009339:Needles; D010227:Parabiosis