Stimulation of Gastric Slow Waves With Acupuncture at St36 and Pe6 - a Randomized Single-blind Controlled Trial (GSW)

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acupuncture

Treatments: Procedure: sham acupuncture; Procedure: verum acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00636012

GSW-08

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim of the study is to investigate specific effects of acupuncture points.

Enrollment: 65 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy volunteers
• BMI between 17.5 and 25
• 3 hours before the experiment no food
• 3 hours before the experiment only water, and 1 hour before the experiment no fluid intake
• 4 hours before the experiment no smoking
• informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• acupuncture treatment during the last 12 months
• chronic disease
• regular intake of medication which influence autonomic nervous system or GI tract
• pregnant or breast feeding
• drug or substance abuse

Trial design

65 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

verum acupuncture

Treatment:

Procedure: verum acupuncture

2

Sham Comparator group

Description:

sham acupuncture

Treatment:

Procedure: sham acupuncture