New Explanation for Long Covid
The new theory behind some of the symptoms of Long Covid is that the virus stays in the gut. This article from the New York...
Nobel Prize Goes to Tenacious, Hero for MRNA Covid Vaccine
Incredible and inspiring story of this talented and indomitable scientist. I told her story here. She worked in a borrowed lab, for little pay but...
Cardiovascular effects of auricular stimulation – and auricular acupuncture
Readers may be aware that I’ve been using transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation in the clinic, usually with heart rate variability monitoring. It can increase vagal...
Effect of electroacupuncture at ST36 on the cerebral metabolic kinetics of rheumatoid arthritis rats
This animal study looks at the effects of acupuncture on Stomach 36 on brain metabolism in rheumatoid arthritis rats. The electroacupuncture improved the animals’ arthritic...
Electroacupuncture attenuates chronic inflammatory pain and depression comorbidity by inhibiting hippocampal neuronal apoptosis via the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway
Youtube video content Click on photo or here for brief youtube explanation This study looks at mice in which chronic inflammatory pain has been induced...
Electroacupuncture alleviated depression-like behaviors in ventromedial prefrontal cortex of chronic unpredictable mild stress-induced rats: Increasing synaptic transmission and phosphorylating dopamine transporter.
Youtube video content We’re seeing a lot of these granular murine articles coming out of China and Hong Kong. It really is contributing so much...
Acupoint Catgut Embedding Diminishes Fibromyalgia Pain through TRPV1 in the Mouse Brain
In this research study, the authors used a cold invoked fibromyalgia model in mice. They determined that acupuncture catgut embedding lead to less pain as...
Acupuncture for Chronic Pain: Update of an Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis.
Acupuncture for Chronic Headache Researchers analyzed various studies to understand what the proof for acupuncture’s effectiveness for chronic pain really was. . They studied four...