Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation ameliorates cardiac abnormalities in chronically stressed rats
I’m unclear on the actual protocol in this study. I don’t know what alternate therapy means. They developed an animal model for chronic stress (always awful to contemplate) and then evaluated their cardiac markers and behavior. After two weeks of TVNS their markers and behavior improved. We saw a recent article on TaVNS and heart…
Read MoreThey Lost Their Legs. Doctors and Health Care Giants Profited.
The perverse incentives that arise in our medical system can have horrible consequences. First do no harm. Or another hazard, Science Says No, Doctor Says Yes.As the article says. But more than a decade of medical research has shown that the vast majority of people with peripheral artery disease have mild or no symptoms and…
Read More5 Ways Acupuncture Can Help You Live a Longer, Stronger and Happier Life
Please click here or on my photo for a brief video on how Acupuncture can improve your health, life span and mood! Welcome to my website and blog where ancient medicine is made modern. In this brief blog post I will outline 5 ways that acupuncture can help you live a stronger, longer and happier…
Read MoreAcupuncture May Help to Prevent Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
Keep in mind, any therapy that can allow an increase in the amount of chemotherapy given can be crucial in providing for increased dosages of chemotherapy, allowing, potentially for a better result in treatment. For Practitioners, the points used were (0.30 mm × 40 mm, Yuguang, Taiwan) to the depth predetermined for each point (between…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Anti-Inflammation through the Autonomic Nervous System
This has been my area of interest and research for years. I don’t have access to the full article, but this jumped out at me, “In maintaining the coordination and unity of human physiological activities, it is in line with the holistic view and bidirectional regulation of acupuncture, and fits in with the meridian theory…
Read MoreElectroacupuncture encourages homeostasis in Irritable bowel syndrome and ulcerative colitis
In my book, Radical Resilience, I make the case that one of the many ways acupuncture “works” is that it nudges the system to fix itself, to regain balance and homeostasis. This article, reviewed by the folks at the British Medical Acupuncture Society blog, looks at how acupuncture changes the actual gene expression in two…
Read MoreEffects of TAVNS on cognitive and autonomic correlates of perseverative cognition.
This study out of Belgium compares verum versus sham TAVNS in patients with perseverative cognition. In these patients they can have psychophysiological stress with no provoking stressor. It is thought that cognitive inflexibility is related to autonomic inflexibility as measured by HRV. In this study, the verum group showed less cognitive perseveration after the TAVNS…
Read MoreTAVNS and HRV in Heart Failure Patients
Study using TAVNS (transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation) in patients with heart failure showed improved autonomic balance and lifestyle measures with TAVNS after 20 sessions, 30 min eaThis study looked at a group of patients with heart failure. They were divided into two groups: sham TAVNS and 5hz/15hz. TAVNS. They all received 30 minute treatment, 5…
Read MoreAcupuncture for insomnia :Baihui (GV20), Neiguan (PC6), Shenmen (HT7) and Taichong (LR3) on cerebral cortical blood oxygen level in rats with insomnia
I like this study because it lays out a simple acupuncture point protocol for treating insomnia. It is recommended for subjects who exhibit a particular pattern, ie liver stagnation. It doesn’t use the often used point behind the ear A Mian. I will go ahead and test this prescription in the clinic for people with…
Read MoreThe Dosage Effect of Laser Acupuncture at PC6 (Neiguan) on Heart Rate Variability: A Pilot Study
This is a very important study in that it corroborates the groundbreaking study from Nature that established that the intensity/frequency of stimulation can be important in achieving parasympathetic increase. I measure parasympathetic activity, or vagal activity in the clinic. In this study they varied the energy density applied to Neiguan, or Pericardium 6. If it…
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