NCT04264559

The Heat Transport Characteristics of the Heart and Lung Meridians: A Study of CSAP Patients and Healthy Adults

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Zhejiang Chinese Medical University · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Although some important progresses were made in the field of the meridian research, no breakthroughs have been achieved. Besides,there are some problems in meridian researches. Particularly, previous research of meridian phenomena involved lots of subjective elements and outcomes.Researches that use modern scientific techniques to investigate the biological characteristics of meridian phenomenon are urgently needed. Therefore, this study is designed to assess the heat transport characteristics of the Heart and Lung meridians by infrared thermal imaging (ITI). Thus, the biological characteristics of meridian phenomena could be presented objectively in a scientific methodology

Detailed description

This study will include 40 patients with chronic stable angina pectoris (CSAP), and 80 healthy adults. Infrared thermal imaging (ITI) examination will be adopted to assess the heat transport characteristics of the Heart and Lung meridians and investigate the specificity for the meridian-visceral correlation and site-to-site correlation between two specific meridians.

Conditions

• Chronic Stable Angina Pectoris

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Infrared thermal imaging	A thermal imager is used to record thermal images.The baseline temperature of relevant acupoints or sites on the Heart and Lung meridians will be measured.
PROCEDURE	Moxibustion	Two sessions of moxibustion intervention will be performed in the Heart meridian and Lung meridian successively. During moxibustion, the temperature change of relevant acupoints or sites in the Heart and Lung meridians will be measured by infrared thermal imaging. * Intervention in the Heart meridian: moxibustion will be performed in acupoint HT3 of the Heart meridian for 15 minutes. * Intervention in the Lung meridian: moxibustion will be performed in acupoint LU5 of the Lung meridian for 15 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-01
• Completion: 2021-12-01
• First posted: 2020-02-11
• Last updated: 2020-02-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China