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  • Title: [Acupuncture - has it a demonstrable bronchospasmolytic effect in bronchial asthma (author's transl)].
    Author: Berger D, Nolte D.
    Journal: Med Klin; 1975 Nov 07; 70(45):1827-30. PubMed ID: 1105116.
    Abstract:
    In 12 patients with bronchial asthma the effects of acupuncture (45 tests altogether) on airway resistance have been investigated. In 9 patients there was a significant decrease of airway resistance 10 minutes, 1 hour and 2 hours after the end of acupuncture. The lowest level for airway resistance (70,1% of control value) was reached during the first hour after acupuncture. The possibility of a merely suggestive effect could be excluded, because "placebo-acupunctures" did not change airway resistance significantly. The comparison with a parasympatholytic acting drug as a metered aerosol (Atrovent) demonstrated that acupuncture had a some-what weaker bronchospasmolytic effect. 3 patients showed after repeated acupunctures no reaction whatever.
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