[Acupuncture at 7:00 a.m.-l1:00 a.m. division for treatment of stroke].
OBJECTIVE
To observe clinical therapeutic effect of the needling method of selecting time on stroke.


METHODS
One hundred and twenty cases of stroke were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group, 60 cases in each group. The observation group were treated with acupuncture between 7:00-11:00 and the control group with acupuncture at any time. Their therapeutic effects, blood lipids and blood coagulation indexes were observed.


RESULTS
The cured-markedly effective rate and the total effective rate were 53.3% and 93.3% in the observation group, which were significantly higher than 35.0% and 78.3% in the control group, respectively; total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) significantly decreased and HDL-C significantly raised, fibrinogen (FG) significantly reduced in the observation group (all P < 0.01), the lipids regulating and anti-coagulation effects were significantly better than the control group (P < 0.05).


CONCLUSIONS
Acupuncture between 7:00-11:00 achieves significant effect on stroke through increasing the lipids-decreasing and anticoagulation effects.
Zhang
Hui-ling
HL
TCM Section, The Third Hospital, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050051, China. Dr_zhl@tom.com
Zhang
Fen-mei
FM
Fan
Xi-feng
XF
Zeng
Yi
Y
D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D020521:Stroke / Q000628:therapy*; D013997:Time Factors