Decreasing uterine artery blood flow with electroacupuncture in humans

Yusuf Ozgur Cakmak, MD, PhD
Acupuncture program for Physicians
Yeditepe University - School of Medicine
Istanbul - Turkey

Background

Western medical drugs can improve blood flow for all vessels simultaneously, but are not able to single out one target organ exclusively, without additional surgical intervention as arterial ligation. Electroacupuncture (EAP), on the contrary, shows a very selective action in increasing or decreasing blood flow in a target organ. Improving the blood flow of a target organ with EAP is fundamental for pathologies as myocardial infarction, stroke but also infertility cases. Our latest publication, in the “Fertility and Sterility journal”, showed that EAP can improve blood flow to testicles in humans by using a specific frequency and acupoint combination. Further, we also clarified that the frequencies, effective in rats, may fail in humans. Decreasing blood flow for a specific organ is also a significant issue for uterine fibroids e.g..

Purpose and method

In our current project, we performed experiments on the best topografical choice and frequency combinations with EAP in order to decrease the bloodflow in human uterine arteries.

Results

Our preliminary results demonstrates that the bloodflow in human uterine arteries can be decreased up to 43% with the optimized combination of acupoints and EAP-frequency.

Conclusion

We suggest that further statistical studies would be highly advisable in human pathology as hypermenorrhea, metrorhagia or uterine fibromyoma with a very high expectancy of significant improvement.