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

Table 4.

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

	Premoxibustion phase	During 15 min moxibustion			5 min postmoxibustion phase
	Premoxibustion phase	Phase A	Phase B	Phase C	5 min postmoxibustion phase
The midpoint between HT3 and HT7	8.39 ± 0.28	8.95 ± 0.33^∗	9.24 ± 0.36^∗∗	9.31 ± 0.33^∗∗	9.11 ± 0.33^∗
The midpoint between HT3 and HT7	—	(0.56 ± 0.15)^††##	(0.85 ± 0.16)^††##	(0.92 ± 0.16)^††##	(0.71 ± 0.17)^††##
LU5 of the lung meridian	10.49 ± 0.39	10.37 ± 0.39	10.30 ± 0.41	10.31 ± 0.40	10.33 ± 0.39
LU5 of the lung meridian	—	(−0.12 ± 0.04)	(−0.19 ± 0.07)	(−0.18 ± 0.07)	(−0.16 ± 0.04)
The midpoint between LU5 and LU9	9.20 ± 0.32	8.89 ± 0.29^∗	8.88 ± 0.31^∗	8.82 ± 0.30^∗	8.80 ± 0.33^∗∗
The midpoint between LU5 and LU9	—	(−0.31 ± 0.08)	(−0.32 ± 0.09)	(−0.39 ± 0.09)	(−0.41 ± 0.07)

(i) PU: perfusion units. The values in parentheses were the increase (or decrease) values of PU compared to premoxibustion; (ii) ^∗∗p < 0.001 and ^∗p < 0.01, compared with premoxibustion PU; (iii) ^††p < 0.001, compared with LU5; ^##p < 0.001, compared with the midpoint between LU5 and LU9.