Medical Research

Review Article of High Quality Acupuncture Studies

They cite the neuro-endocrine-immune system as playing a frequent role in acupuncture results.  Coincidentally, that is the chapter I’m working on in a writing project...

Transcutaneous Electrical Acupoint Stimulation for Improving Postoperative Recovery, Reducing Stress and Inflammatory Responses in Elderly Patient Undergoing Knee Surgery.

Ancient Medicine Made Modern: Scientific Solutions for Remarkable Results Nice study showing that not only did the group receiving acupuncture do better on a quality...

Electroacupuncture for Post Operative Cognitive Dysfunction

Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2020; 2020: 9641904. Published online 2020 Feb 13. doi: 10.1155/2020/9641904 PMCID: PMC7044481 PMID: 32148660 Application of Acupuncture to Attenuate Immune Responses and...

Dopamine mediates vagal modulation of the immune system by electroacupuncture.

Ancient Medicine Made Modern: Scientific Solutions for Remarkable Resultsb Believe it or not, this might be relevant to the current covid crisis since patients are...

Mechanism of electroacupuncture on inflammatory pain: neural-im- mune-endocrine interactions

2019 JTCM Liyuan-Mechanismofelectroacupunctureoninflammatorypain neural immune endocrine interactions (2) J Tradit Chin Med Ancient Medicine Made Modern 39 (5), 740-749 Oct 2019 Mechanism of Electroacupuncture on...

Role of Neuro-Immune Cross-Talk in the Anti-obesity Effect of Electro-Acupuncture

Data Makes the Difference Just as in this article that shows that “flow” is actually enhanced by increased sympathetic activity, anti-obesity effect is also improved...

Neural networks and the anti-inflammatory effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation in depression

Ancient Medicine Made Modern Full article link here PDF hereTAVNS and antiinflammatory effect on depression 202012974_2020_Article_1732 Abstract Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) is a...

Is Stimulation of the Tragus as Effective as Stimulation of the Cymba Concha in TAVNS?

In this letter the authors make the case that tragus stimulation may be as effective as cymba concha.  This would be helpful since the tragus...

Effects of Acupuncture on Chronic Stress-Induced Depression-Like Behavior and Its Central Neural Mechanism

Interesting selection of points.  Perhaps necessary in the case of using mice, but nonetheless maybe I should branch out a bit.  I ususally like using...

Editorial: Neural Substrates of Acupuncture: From Peripheral to Central Nervous System Mechanisms

Data Makes the Difference This editorial article summarized recent acupuncture research found. It came up on my feed because of Vitaly Napadow, friend of blog....