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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2011, Article ID 435928, 9 pages doi:10.1093/ecam/neq073 Original Article Assessing the Effects of Acupuncture by Comparing Needling the Hegu Acupoint and Needling Nearby Nonacupoints by Spectral Analysis of Microcirculatory Laser Doppler Signals Hsin Hsiu,1 Wei-Chen Hsu,2 Chia-Liang Hsu,3 and Shih-Min Huang3 1 Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, Taiwan 2 Department of Chinese Medicine, Taipei City Hospital RenAi Branch, Taipei, Taiwan 3 Department of Electrical Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan Correspondence should be addressed to Hsin Hsiu, hsiuhh@ Received 12 August 2009; Accepted 25 May 2010 Copyright © 2011 Hsin Hsiu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We aimed to assess the effects of acupuncture by analyzing the frequency content of skin blood-flow signals simultaneously recorded at the Hegu acupoint and two nearby nonacupoints following acupuncture stimulation (AS). Laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) signals were measured in male healthy volunteers in two groups of experiments: needling the Hegu acupoint (n = 13) and needling a nearby nonacupoint (control experiment; n = 10). Each experiment involved recording a 20 min baseline-data sequence and two sets of effects data recorded 0–20 and 50–70 min after stopping AS. Wavelet transform with Morlet mother wavelet was applied to the measured LDF signals. Needling the Hegu acupoint significantly increased the blood flow, significantly decreased the relative