Title:
A NEEDLE FOR USE IN REFLEXOTHERAPY AND AN APPLICATOR USING THE SAME
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2001005351
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
The inventive needle can be used for reflexotherapy (i.e. for acupuncture and acupressure by application) in health-care institutions or at home, whereby said needle can be contained in an applicator or used independently as an acupressure tool. The reflexotherapy needle (1) comprises a base having a stem (2), which has a tip (3) on one end, and is made of steel, copper, chrome, nickel or silver and has a coating of copper, chrome, nickel or silver. The novelty of the needle is in that the coating of the base of the needle (1) has a partial configuration, whereby a region (7) formed near the tip (3) thereof consists of at least two materials having different electrochemical potentials, and also in that the base and the coating are made from chemical elements selected in a group which also contains cobalt, aluminum, magnesium, zinc, tin, titan, vanadium, beryllium, gold, platinum, palladium, strontium and tellurium as well as their alloys and oxides of the materials. The inventive needle provides for mechanical and electrical action in the area of interest of the patient's body and for a rational choice of materials used to form the base and the coating of the needle, which permits definition of a wide range of parameters of microcurrents; it offers more possibilities in the field of electrophoresis since it allows transportation of a wide range of microelements into the patient's body and intensifies electrophoresis as a result of such microcurrents. The invention also relates to the applicator using such a needle. Such an applicator allows for the creation in the epidermis of a complex heterogeneous dimensionally-shaped magnetic field which consists of microcurrents circulating between the needles themselves and between the bases and the coating of the needles; it allows for the definition of desired parameters of the microcurrents; for the restoration by electrophoresis of the evenness of the electrical field of the patient's skin, which has been disturbed by a disease; and for the introduction into the patient's body of a wider selection of microelements as well as allowing for the intensification of such a process for the introduction of microelements.
Inventors:
LYAPKO NIKOLAI GRIGORIEVICH (UA)
Application Number:
PCT/UA2000/000023
Publication Date:
June 14, 2001
Filing Date:
July 13, 2000
Export Citation:
Assignee:
LYAPKO NIKOLAI GRIGORIEVICH (UA)
International Classes:
A61H11/00; A61H39/00; A61H39/08; A61N1/30; (IPC1-7): A61H39/08; A61N1/18
Foreign References:
| US5176009A | 1993-01-05 | |||
| FR2336949A1 | 1977-07-29 |
Other References:
DATABASE WPI Section PQ Week 199419, Derwent World Patents Index; Class P33, AN 1994-157346, XP002161271
DATABASE WPI Section PQ Week 198723, Derwent World Patents Index; Class P33, AN 1987-161639, XP002161272
PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 1999, no. 05 31 May 1999 (1999-05-31)
DATABASE WPI Section PQ Week 199151, Derwent World Patents Index; Class P33, AN 1991-375438, XP002161273
DATABASE WPI Section PQ Week 198723, Derwent World Patents Index; Class P33, AN 1987-161639, XP002161272
PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 1999, no. 05 31 May 1999 (1999-05-31)
DATABASE WPI Section PQ Week 199151, Derwent World Patents Index; Class P33, AN 1991-375438, XP002161273
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