International Scientific Acupuncture and Meridian Symposium 2014

摘要

Blood fluidity is well known to be reduced by various types of stress, including pain stress, electrical shock stress, restrictionstress, isolation stress, etc. The reduction of blood fluidity is mainly due to an increase in platelet adhesion. The activation ofthesympatheticnervoussystemwhenapersonisunderstressseemstohavearelationtoplateletadhesion.Wehaveexaminedthe effects of electroacupuncture and several kinds of Japanese traditional herbal medicine (KAMPO) in animal studies.Electroacupuncture stimulation applied to several acupoints leads to a recovery from the decreased blood fluidity induced bystress.SeveralKAMPOmedicinesshowedsimilareffectsonbloodfluidity.Areviewofourstudiesonbloodfluidityisalsogiven.