Application of head scraping combined with five-tone therapy in CFS of liver qi stagnation, Meiling et al, 2018

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Abstract
Objective: To investigate the effect of head scrape therapy combined five-tone therapy on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients with liver qi stagnation syndrome. Methods: From May 2016 to January 2018, 60 patients with liver qi stagnation type CFS were randomly divided into The experimental group adopts a routine rehabilitation program, including psychological guidance, cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy, for 1 time a week. The experimental group on a basis of The general rehabilitation program was given the head scraping combined five-tone therapy. The head scraping method using sishenyan, niesanpian, weifengshuangdai, and xiangconggua, for 1 times every 3–4 days, 2 times a week. The five-tone therapy given angular tune Music, 1 times a day, 5 times a week. The 2 groups were treated for 4 weeks as 1 courses. Before and after the intervention, the degree of fatigue was assessed by the fatigue scal e (FS-14), the negative emotional status was assessed using the Zung Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS), the sleep quality was assessed by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and the Was evaluated by the clinical symptomization. performance was assessed by before the intervention, there was no consistent negative significant difference in general information, fatigue, negative mood, sleep quality and clinical symptom index between The two groups (P>0.05). After the intervention, the score of mental fatigue (2.7±0.7 vs 3.2±0.8, t=2.576, P=0.013), body fatigue (3.6±1.3 vs 4.4±1.2, t=2.477 , P=0.016), and the total fatigue (6.3±1.7 vs 7.6±1.6, t=3.050, P=0.003) were significantly lower than those of the control group (P<0.05 or P<0.01). The SAS (42.3 ±4.4 vs 45±4.6, t=2.323, P=0.024) and SDS score (51.6±5 vs 54.3±4.9, t=2.112, P=0.039) were significantly lower than the control group (P<0.05). The PSQI score of 4 independent dimensions scores including subjective sleep quality (0.8±0.3 vs 1.1±0.4, t=3.286, P=0.002), go to sleep time (0.8±0.3 vs 1.0±0.4, t =2.191, P=0.032), daytime dysfunction (1.8±0.4 vs 2.1±0.5, t=2.566, P=0.013), sleep disorders (0.9±0.4 vs 1.2±0.5, t=2.566, P=0.013) and all the The total score of 7 dimensions (5.2±2 vs 6.4±2.1, t=2.266, P=0.027) were significantly lower than the control group (P<0.05). After the intervention, the clinical symptom score of CFS (7.9±3.1 vs 10.2±3.7, t=2.610, P=0.012) was significantly lower than that of the control group (P<0.05), and the overall clinical efficacy was significantly better than that of the control group (Z=2.762, P=0.006) . Conclusion: The head scrape therapy combined five-tone therapy can improve the sleep quality, clinical symptoms, negative mood, and clinical efficacy of chronic fatigue syndrome patients with liver qi stagnation.
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From the google translation of the paper, which is in the Journal of Clinical and Pathological Research, http://lcbl.amegroups.com/article/view/25451

I presume head scraping is this procedure applied to the head:
Gua sha (Chinese: 刮痧) is a traditional Chinese medical treatment in which the skin is scraped to produce light petechiae. Practitioners believe that gua sha releases unhealthy bodily matter from blood stasis within sored, tired, stiff or injured muscle areas to stimulate new oxygenated blood flow to the areas, thus promotes metabolic cell repair, regeneration, healing and recovery. Gua sha is sometimes referred to as "scraping", "spooning" or "coining" by English speakers, it has also been given the descriptive French name, tribo-effleurage.


Skin blemishing resulting from gua sha
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gua_sha?wprov=sfla1

While five-tone therapy is this:
Five Phases Music Therapy (FPMT) employs the theory of
five phases and five music scales or tones (Gong (do), Shang (ri), Jue (mi), Zhi (so)
and Yu (la)) to analyze and treat mind-body illness. In Chinese Medicine (CM) the
five music scales are used to connect the human body and the universe, summarize
personalities and constitution and analyze the influences of climatic changes on health.
FPMT has a self-contained theory and routine of practice application. Large amount
of clinical and fundamental reports has been available and clinical benefits have been
obtained.
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https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&s...CDCYQFggoMAE&usg=AOvVaw2eHohZnIJYBBYbzEYS4cyI

Head scraping or CBT - decisions, decisions...
 
So traditional Chinese therapy is better than CBT/GET for CFS.
4 week trial, subjective outcome measures.

Sharpe will say they didn't do the CBT/GET properly, and Crawley will set up a trial of head scratching with children.
 
Gua sha is used in chinese and korean skincare and does seem to improve tone, and skin condition - like Perrin it focuses on lymphatic drainage when used facially.
Skin issues are one thing chinese and herbal.medicine do get results - perhaps because dermatology referrals are difficult and people seek help outwith mainstream .


I' m not one for quackery bit also try to keep an open mind. Chinese herbalism did form basis of 2015 nobel prize when artemisinin was produced from artemesia and used for malaria.

There may be some things worth testing formally.
 
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I'll give it a go. I'm off to poke around on the black notes of the piano with one hand (presumably they are referring to the notes of a pentatonic scale) while scratching my scalp to bleeding point with the other. I should sleep much better:thumbsup:
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It is a pentatonic scale, but the Chinese Pentatonic Scale.

Is Chinese music in equal temperament? I thought equal temperament came about through the introduction of keyboard instruments, and changed our perception of tuning in the 18th Century?

For non-musicians, our perception of things being in tune or not are conditioned by our being surrounded by equal temperament tunings, (the gaps between the notes being the same).

 
@Luther Blissett. Yes, it is the Chinese pentatonic scale corresponding to doh re mi soh la. I hadn't read the original post properly.

No, the notes of the pentatonic scale aren't equidistant. The black notes on the piano are any easy way to visualize the intervals between the notes. The black notes are an actual pentatonic scale of the type we are talking about ( doh re mi soh la - doh being F# in this case). You can see a larger gap after the two black notes and again after the three of them, corresponding to the larger intervals in the scale. In the equal tempered system all the 12 notes of the chromatic scale, from one C to the next C for example, are equidistant.

In traditional Chinese music they often used some weird sounding intervals but the pentatonic scale has become standardized to suit more modern instruments, and presumably due to the influence of western tunings.

There are many other scales used in Chinese music as well, some which sound oriental and others that don't to my ear.

The video you posted is "not available" to me but, as far as I know, Chinese scales use a mathematical method of tuning very close the pythagorean method which was one of the three tuning systems that preceded the western equal temperament system.

With most instruments you are stuck with the compromises of the modern system but advanced string players can and do adjust certain intervals when they are playing solo or with other string players. For example, in the key of C major B wants to resolve up to C and it is often played sharper than B on a piano. But if you play B to C in the key of G major you would play the B slightly flatter because sharp B in the context of G major sounds out of tune. Other intervals commonly adjusted are 3rds and 6ths.

There are many well know western songs that use the pentatonic scale, all easily played on the 5 black notes of a piano. For example:
Auld Lang Syne
Amazing Grace
Stairway to Heaven
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Old Macdonald had a Farm
 
I've always been fascinated by the 12 note equal tempered system. The frequencies come from

f = f0 x 2^(n/12)

Where f0 is the base frequency and n is the number of the note in the scale counting from 0. So if f0 is the frequency of a C then n=12 gives the frequency of the next C to be double the first, etc. So equal spacing means equal on a logarithmic scale.

What's interesting is that a fifth corresponding to n=7 (i.e. if C is note 0, G is note 7) should be 3/2 times the base but 2^(7/12)=1.498 and a fourth at n=5 should be 4/3 but 2^(5/12)=1.335. Both of these are pretty close and the rest aren't too far off. So it is kind of by numerical accident that the equal tempered system works. 2^(n/12) just happens to be close enough to the important ratios of small integers.
 
In equal temperament the ratio between adjacent notes of the chromatic scale (i.e. a semitone apart) is the twelfth root of 2.

Multiply the fundamental frequency of any note by that factor gives you the next note up the chromatic scale.

[EDIT: Just noticed Bruce's post. He gave the compact version: f = f0 x 2^(n/12) ]

Equal temperament tuning has been described as the compromise where each key is equally out of tune.
 
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Ok, so i have a question. :D

I'm assuming that the theory around this treatment is based upon oscillations. (The sound waves cause cells that are vibrating to change?)

Now, I don't understand the maths behind sound waves, but, this is where my equal temperament objection comes in.

1) A note on an equal temperament tuned instrument contains the frequencies of other notes that make up the whole. Correct?

2) Because the notes are not harmonically tuned, the sound wave contains a slight irregular pulse(?)

3) In contrast, a harmonically tuned instrument would not contain this pulse. It would have a perfectly spaced waveform ?

I know what see in an oscilloscope, the waveforms stay static in one case, and move around in the other. So, if the theory was correct, a piano would not work for the therapy due to the pulses contained in different notes of the scale, unless the piano was tuned to be perfectly harmonic in just one key? Am I making sense? :D
 
This somehow reminds of the time that talk show host David Letterman became irate when his attempt to replicate the "Denorex Challenge" was interrupted. He loudly insisted, "This is SCIENCE, damn it!"

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