This study is designed to compare the effect of a needle with the magnet on body. We took the skin temperature of the belly with digital infrared thermographic imaging while we sticked needles and apply magnets on LI4.
We made experiments on 40 healt...
This study is designed to compare the effect of a needle with the magnet on body. We took the skin temperature of the belly with digital infrared thermographic imaging while we sticked needles and apply magnets on LI4.
We made experiments on 40 healthy male volunteers for one month. We classified control group not acupuncture or magnet adhering(CON), acupuncture group on left and right LI4(LA), and the permanent magnet group adhering to left and right(LM) And LM is divided into S-polar permanent magnet group (LMS) and N-polar permanent magnet group adhering to left and right LI4(LMN).
When we observed that temperature changed with time, the skin temperature of the belly in CON descended significantly but LM, LMS and LMN is not changed significantly.
As mentioned above, we observed that the needles on L14 affected the change of temperature on the belly, and conjectured that the appliance of magnets had the same results.
If the mechanism depends on the meridian of body and energy, we suppose that the appliance of magnets and needles has same effects.