title: Acupuncture De-qi: From Characterization to Underlying Mechanism.
abstract: De-qi refers to the participant's subjective sensations and objective body responses as well as the acupuncturist's perceptions while the acupuncturist needles certain acupoints in the participant's body. In recent years, De-qi is getting increasing attention of the researchers and many efforts have been made to understand its mechanism. By the broad literature survey, this paper explores the subjective De-qi sensation of the patients, its influencing factors, and the resulting physiological responses. The purpose of this paper is expected to find out a possible mechanism of De-qi and to provide certain scientific evidence for acupuncture fundamental research and clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: School of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.
authors.forename: Shi-Peng
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Song-Xi
authors.initials: SX
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Xiao-Xuan
authors.initials: XX
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Meng-Wei
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Jia-Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Xiao-Yu
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Yong-Si
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ji
authors.forename: Jiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Xiao-Hong
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Lu-Fen
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Zhang