AP and the Digestive / Gastrointestinal Tract
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Blom_M; Dawidson I; Angmar-Månsson B (1992) The effect of AP on salivary flow rates in patients with xerostomia. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Mar 73(3):293-298. Dept of Cardiol, Sch of Dentistry, Karolinska Inst, Sweden. Of 21 patients with severe xerostomia, 11 were treated with AP and 10 patients received placebo AP. Those patients who received AP treatment showed increased salivary flow rates during and after the AP treatment. The improved salivary values persisted during the observation year, whereas the patients who received placebo AP showed some improvement of salivary flow rates only during the actual treatment. AP may be a useful adjunct for the stimulation of salivary flow in some patients with xerostomia.
Somova_KT; Vezhnin VF; Panfilov DA; Panfilova MV (1993) Reflexotherapy in the combined treatment of xerostomia patients. Stomatologiia Mosk Apr-Jun 72(2):71-72. The authors used local and systemic AP points and manual therapy of biomechanical disorders in the cervical spine to treat patients with xerostomia. The immediate and late results of treatment were "fairly effective".