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Interaction between Acupuncture and Drug

Volume 6 - Issue 4

**ChihMing Lin^1,2, YuanChiang Chung^2,3, ChungYuh Tzeng⁴, YingI Chen², TaiHao Hsu⁵ and ShihLiang Chang*^2,6**

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- ¹Department of Neurology, Changhua Christian Hospital, Taiwan
- ²Department of Medicinal Botanicals and Health Applications, Da-Yeh University, Taiwan
- ³Department of Surgery, Cheng-Ching Hospital , Taiwan
- ⁴Department of Orthopedics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
- ⁵Department of Bioindustry Technology, Da-Yeh University, Taiwan
- ⁶School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taiwan
*Corresponding author: ShihLiang Chang, No.168, University Rd, Changhua County, Taiwan

Received: June 26, 2018; Published: July 10, 2018

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.06.001379

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Abstract

Can the acupuncture stimulations impact on the effect or lower the dose of drugs stimulation using at the same time and the same organism? In recent years, we applied electroacupuncture (EA), a physical stimulation and some drugs (insulin, hypoglycemic agents, steroids or volatile anesthetics. etc.) at the same time on the same animal model to test the hypoglycemic activity obtain that the EA stimulation may elevated the hypoglycemic effect of drugs. In another physical stimulation, Ear acupoints were stimulated by small balls obtained that lower down the effect dose of atropine for the treatment of myopia. There were some interactions such as: antagonism, synergism, potentiation and summation. etc. This is an important issue worth for further investigations.

Keywords: RBM: Interaction; Electroacupuncture; Hypoglycemic Agent; Steroid; Volatile Anesthetics

Abbreviations: EA: Electro Acupuncture; TENS: Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation; STZ: Streptozotocin; FFA: Free Fatty Acid; MAPK: Activating Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase; SIIR: Steroid Induced Insulin Resistant