Exploration of phenomena and regularity of heat-sensitive acupoints based on bibliometrics

Zhongguo zhen jiu = Chinese acupuncture & moxibustion
Zhihan ChenZhengjie Li

Abstract

To explore the phenomena and regularity of heat-sensitive acupoints for clinic and further study. Modern literature before May 11st, 2017 on heat-sensitive phenomena was retrieved from CNKI, VIP, WANFANG database, and SinoMED. The research trend of heat-sensitive acupoints and interventions, heat-sensitive region, detection indexes, and diseases were analyzed by bibliometrics. Among 201 included papers, 35 papers on healthy person was the highest, which were mainly related to Mingmen (GV 4) with 8 papers. As to the detection indexes, 125 papers on the individual, saturated and sensation vanishing moxibustion quantity accounted for the largest part, which were most relevant to the points in the bladder meridian of foot-taiyang (66 papers) and soft tissue injury (29 papers), and the second part was infrared radiation feature (61 papers), which were most relevant to healthy person (23 papers). Heat-sensitive phenomena own regularity, and the detection indexes are specific to heat-sensitive points in healthy person or patients with different diseases.

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