title: [Acupuncture at 7:00 a.m.-l1:00 a.m. division for treatment of stroke].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: TCM Section, The Third Hospital, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050051, China. Dr_zhl@tom.com
authors.forename: Hui-ling
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Fen-mei
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xi-feng
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zeng
mesh_terms: 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