Kim Jungdae, Kang Dae-In
Biomedical Physics Laboratory for Korean Medicine, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
J Acupunct Meridian Stud. 2010 Sep;3(3):141-9. doi: 10.1016/S2005-2901(10)60029-5.
This paper reviews trends in research related to Korean pharmacopuncture therapy. Specifically, basic and clinical research in pharmacopuncture within the last decade is summarized by introducing categorical variables for classification. These variables are also analyzed for association. This literature review is based on articles published from February 1997 to December 2008 in a Korean journal, the Journal of the Korean Institute of Herbal Acupuncture, which was renamed the Journal of the Korean Pharmacopuncture Institute in 2007. Among the total of 379 papers published in the journal during this period, 164 papers were selected for their direct relevance to pharmacopuncture research and were categorized according to three variables: medicinal materials, acupuncture points and disease. The most frequently studied medicinal materials were bee-venom pharmacopuncture (42%), followed by meridian-field pharmacopuncture (24%), single-compound pharmacopuncture (24%), and eight-principle pharmacopuncture (10%). The frequency distributions of the acupuncture points and meridians for the injection of medicinal materials are presented. The most frequently used meridian and acupuncture point was the Bladder meridian and ST36, respectively. Contingency tables are also displayed to analyze the relationship between the categorized variables. Chi-squared analysis showed a significant association between the type of pharmacopuncture and disease. The trend in research reports on Korean pharmacopuncture therapy was reviewed and analyzed using a descriptive statistical approach to evaluate the therapeutic value of this technique for future research.
本文综述了与韩国药针疗法相关的研究趋势。具体而言，通过引入分类变量进行分类，总结了过去十年中药针疗法的基础研究和临床研究。还对这些变量进行了关联性分析。这篇文献综述基于1997年2月至2008年12月在韩国一本期刊《韩国韩医针术学会杂志》上发表的文章，该杂志于2007年更名为《韩国药针学会杂志》。在此期间该杂志共发表了379篇论文，其中164篇因其与药针疗法研究直接相关而被选中，并根据三个变量进行分类：药材、穴位和疾病。研究最多的药材是蜂毒药针疗法（42%），其次是经穴药针疗法（24%）、单味药药针疗法（24%）和八纲药针疗法（10%）。列出了注射药材的穴位和经络的频率分布。最常用的经络和穴位分别是膀胱经和足三里（ST36）。还展示了列联表以分析分类变量之间的关系。卡方分析表明药针疗法类型与疾病之间存在显著关联。采用描述性统计方法对韩国药针疗法的研究报告趋势进行了综述和分析，以评估该技术对未来研究的治疗价值。
