METHOD FOR TREATING STENOSING VASCULAR DISEASES Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, therapy. SUBSTANCE: one should affect with rectangular impulse electric current of negative polarity onto corporal and auricular acupuncture points. Moreover, corporal points of general action should be affected with silver needles left there for 40-60 min, and corporal points of local action should be affected with golden needles left there up to 30 min. Then introduced needles should be affected with bipolar electric current of 100-200 mcA, 5-10 V voltage for 3-20 min. Moreover, passive electrode should be connected with silver acupuncture needle introduced into one of the points of general action, and active electrodes should be connected with the handles of golden needles located in points of local action. Impact should be performed every other day by alternating it with that by silver needles introduced for 10-15 min into auricular points and/or scalp's projectional areas. EFFECT: higher efficiency of therapy. 1 cl, 2 ex