Biomediciones de los pacientes con odontalgia: método Ryodoraku

Abstract

Objective

Evaluation of the energy levels of patients with dental pain before and after acupuncture or dipyrone.

Design

Analysis of energy parameters from a randomised double-blind clinical trial.

Location

Piracicaba Dentistry Faculty (FOP/Unicamp) in Piracicaba/SP, Brazil.

Participants

The clinical trial included 56 volunteers randomly assigned into 4 groups: Acupuncture, Placebo Acupuncture, Dipyrone and Dipyrone Placebo. The selected volunteers presented dental pain of pulpal origin with a pain score of over 4.

Interventions

Before any therapeutic intervention, the volunteers’ energy levels were measured using the Ryodoraku method. After this procedure, each volunteer received treatment according to their group. After 20 minutes, the volunteers’ energy and pain levels were measured again.

Main measurements

Ryodoraku and pain scale.

Results

All the patients had a deficient energy profile before the intervention. There was a numerical drop in energy in all groups after the interventions. The kidney meridian presented the greatest laterality imbalance before the interventions. There was no relationship between the side of the dental pain and the side with the highest energy of the meridian with the greatest laterality imbalance.

Conclusions

The patients with dental pain showed energy deficiency before therapeutic interventions, with a higher imbalance in the kidney meridian and a higher loss of energy when placebo acupuncture was used.