SKALP-AKUPUNKTUR UND HERZRATENVARIABILITÄT BEI PATIENTEN NACH SCHLAGANFALL MIT SCHLAFSTÖRUNGEN: TELEAKUPUNKTUR MIT HARBIN IN COVID-19-PANDEMIE-ZEITEN

The difficult times caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated problems, also in the area of research management of intercontinental acupuncture research projects, require targeted, adequate solutions. For example, the author’s research project approved by Eurasia Pacific Uninet, which should have been carried out through a mutual exchange of scientists, could only be carried out “online” due to corona using the now established method of tele acupuncture. This report is focused on the long-term cooperation between the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) Research Center of the Medical University of Graz in Austria and the Heilongjiang University in Harbin in China. In addition to the methodology of scalp acupuncture, the interventions and the assessment using heart rate variability (HRV), the article summarizes the results of patients with sleep disorders. According to the results of this pilot project, scalp acupuncture can be used as an effective method for stroke patients with insomnia and spleen qi deficiency. A discussion of scalp acupuncture in connection with HRV as well as historical considerations on the topic complete the project report.