针灸时效-量效关系对机体免疫调节作用的研究进展

针灸-免疫学研究是采用针灸学同现代免疫学理论、多学科方法和技术,研究针灸于腧穴后对机体免疫系统的影响及其作用机制,是针灸学同现代医学交叉的新兴领域.大量的临床研究及实验研究已经证实,针灸可以调节机体的免疫能力,包括机体的特异和非特异的免疫功能,这种调节作用与针灸治疗时间的长短,针刺的次数,疗程的长短,艾灸的壮数等因素密切相关,而且这种时效-量效关系存在于多种疾病中.该研究综述了近年来针灸效应与时效、量效的关系及针灸量效与时效在调节机体免疫调节过程中的作用,使得针灸对机体免疫调节的作用研究更加规范化,更好地为临床提供理论基础.

Research Progress of Relationship Between Time-Effect and Dose-Effect of Acupuncture and Moxibustion on Immune Regulation

Acupuncture and moxibustion-immunology is the newly-emerging crossed field of modern medical science of acupuncture and moxibustion, which includes modern immunology theory, multidisciplinary methods and techniques, and re-searches on the effect and mechanism of acupoint on boby immune system. Clinical and experimental researches have con-firmed that acupuncture could regulate the immunity of the body, including the body's specific and non-specific immune func-tion. The regulating effect is related with the length of treatment time, the number of needling, the length of the course, cones of acupuncture, and this time-dose effect relationship existed in a variety of diseases. The relationship between dose-effect and time-effect of acupuncture and moxibustion and its effect in regulating the immune regulatory role were reviewed to more standardized about this aspect's researches and to provide a better theoretical basis for the clinic.