GV20 Acupuncture Point Can Be Used for Infertility and Conception
This study postulates the G 20, an acupuncture point on the top of the head, activates the HPA, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and causes improved mood and well being leading to increased fertility. I will try to get the full transcript. I’ve been aware of the effect of Sishencong’s (Four Intelligences) on autonomic activity, but not G20….
Read MoreEffect Of Moxibustion on HRV depends on Temperature
This article shows that after a threshold temperature on the forearm, there is more complexity in local blood flow, but also on HRV. I’m not sure how to use this information exactly. Moxibustion is not a modality that’s easy for me to use in the clinic. But I like the fact that they looked at…
Read MoreHeart Rate Variability as Stress Biomarker: Can Machine learning improve Signal to Noise?
I’m posting slides from my upcoming presentation for UC Davis Machine Learning meeting as a way to get myself organized. The hope with this presentation is that with more sophisticated data analysis, the HRV results will be more reliable and robust.
Read MoreNeuromodulation, Electric Cures and Acupuncture Are All Methods of Alleviating the Toxic Inflammatory Reflex Involved in to Aging
I searched for this “electric cures” issue of Scientific American for a presentation I’m giving. ( I blogged about it when it came out.) I found a link to a letter to the editor. I wonder whether Tracey has considered that acupuncture may somehow mimic the responses he found. I haven’t tried it, but friends…
Read MoreTranscutaneous Electrical Stimulation of PC5 and PC6 Acupoints Modulates Autonomic Balance in Heart Transplant Patients: A Pilot Study.
This represents another study using transcutaneous electrical stimulation instead of needle stimulation. I had a hard time interpreting their results presented, but they claim that there was an improvement in their HRV with better sympathovagal balance during the stimulation and moderately after. The thing is that transplanted hearts are without innervation, so it’s hard to…
Read MoreTranscutaneous Electrical Acustimulation Combined with Deep Breathing Relieves GERD via the Autonomic Nervous System: HRV study
This study looks at using a home TENS type system for 30 minutes twice a day for 30 days. Their GERD improves in many different parameters, and their HRV improves from the first session to the final session also. I’m not surprised! I got the article in the mail and, alas, there is not online…
Read MoreAcupuncture promotes brain health by encouraging neuronal growth, cell rejuvenation, anti-inflammatory action and anti-oxidant activity.
In this article, the authors look at all of the different pathways that are triggered by acupuncture. Most likely some of these have been isolated in animals. Quite a list. “Acupuncture affects synaptic plasticity, causes an increase in neurotrophic factors, and results in neuroprotection, cell proliferation, antiapoptosis, antioxidant activity, anti-inflammation, and maintenance of the blood-brain…
Read MoreElectroacupuncture and HRV in Fibromyalgia Patients
This article challenges many of my hypotheses and assumptions. What they found when measuring HRV in the morning on 22 fibromyalgia patients after receiving weeks of acupuncture was increased sympathetic tone. They then attribute this increase in sympathetic tone to positive clinical benefit because of a relative decrease in sympathetic tone in the morning usually. …
Read MoreHeart Rate Variability as Biomarker of Prevention and Resilience in the Acupuncture Clinic: A Year Long Study of Migraine Patients
I’m considering this post “self publishing” of a recent write up I did for Journal of Medical Acupuncture. They declined it on the basis that I needed an “IRB” which would be impossible since I have no board to apply to. I’m still okay with this paper. The Introduction especially summarizes how I see the…
Read MoreCurrent Directions in the Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation II – An Engineering Perspective
I’ve made the first pass through of this informative paper. It discusses the current state of the art of TAVNS or aTVNS which is auricular (ear) vagal nerve stimulation. There seems to be consensus that percutaneous needles with stimulation are the way to go. Also that closed loop biofeedback will make the stim more effective. …
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