title: [Acupuncture for treatment of kinetic insufficiency of kidney-qi and study on the mechanism].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe the therapeutic effect of acupuncture on kinetic insufficiency of kidney-qi and to study on the mechanism.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-four healthy professional sportsmen were randomly divided into an acupuncture group and a control group. They trained for 4 weeksq with regular detection. In the latter 2 weeks, the acupuncture group received scalp and body-acupuncture.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three weeks later, signs of insufficiency of kidney-qi appeared in most of the sportsmen in the two groups. Two weeks after treatment, in the acupuncture group the signs improved, and testosterone (T) and estradiol (E2) levels increased (P < 0.05); the symptoms did not significantly improve and the T and EZ levels decreased in the control group (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Acupuncture therapy can regulate excitatory and inhibitory functions of the nervous system, improve symptoms of kinetic insufficiency of kidney-qi, and has regulative and repairing action on the sexual glands and adrenal gland.
authors.affiliation: Liaoning Provincial Sports Training Center, Shenyang 110034, China. Liaoning.
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Jian-hua
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005221:Fatigue / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007030:Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D010913:Pituitary-Adrenal System / Q000503:physiopathology; D019413:Qi; D013178:Sports Medicine