. 2021 Apr 1;2021:6644625. doi: 10.1155/2021/6644625

Table 3.

Blood perfusion and its corresponding change magnitude in both meridians in the lung meridian intervention group (mean ± SEM, PU).

	Premoxibustion phase	During 15 min moxibustion			5 min postmoxibustion phase
	Premoxibustion phase	Phase A	Phase B	Phase C
The midpoint between LU5 and LU9	8.54 ± 0.44	9.37 ± 0.47^∗∗	9.98 ± 0.50^∗∗	10.35 ± 0.52^∗∗	10.33 ± 0.53^∗∗
The midpoint between LU5 and LU9	—	(0.83 ± 0.15)^††##	(1.44 ± 0.21)^††##	(1.81 ± 0.27)^††##	(1.78 ± 0.28)^††##
The midpoint between HT3 and HT7	9.68 ± 0.56	8.91 ± 0.52^∗	8.95 ± 0.52^∗	8.59 ± 0.49^∗	8.34 ± 0.47^∗
The midpoint between HT3 and HT7	—	(−0.77 ± 0.20)	(−0.73 ± 0.18)	(−1.09 ± 0.25)	(−1.34 ± 0.24)
HT3 of the heart meridian	7.62 ± 0.47	7.30 ± 0.46	7.28 ± 0.45	7.21 ± 0.46	7.18 ± 0.45
HT3 of the heart meridian	—	(−0.31 ± 0.14)	(−0.33 ± 0.16)	(−0.40 ± 0.18)	(−0.44 ± 0.19)

(i) PU: perfusion units. The values in parentheses were the increase (or decrease) values of PU compared with premoxibustion; (ii) ^∗∗p < 0.001 and ^∗p < 0.01, compared with premoxibustion PU; (iii) ^††p < 0.001, compared with the midpoint between HT3 and HT7; ^##p < 0.001, compared with HT3.