Medical Research

Intraoperative Low-frequency Electroacupuncture under General Anesthesia Improves Postoperative Recovery in a Randomized Trial.

Ancient Medicine Made Modern More like this please.  This is a useful study because it does away with the problem of placebo, has quantified results. ...

Electroacupuncture Improves HPAA axis in animals

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26573696 Neuromodulation. 2016 Jul;19(5):498-506. doi: 10.1111/ner.12366. Epub 2015 Nov 16. Arginine Vasopressin and Arginine Vasopressin Receptor 1b Involved in Electroacupuncture-Attenuated Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Hyperactivity in Hepatectomy...

fMRI and Effective Migraine Acupuncture Treatment

In this study, they gave intensive treatment.  Daily acupuncture for 5 days, 2 days off for 4 weeks.  I was surprised that their results were...

Changes in HbA1c and circulating and adipose tissue androgen levels in overweight‐obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome in response to electroacupuncture

Lots of nitty gritty on physiological effects of acupuncture on tissues, neurotransmitters, and other systems.  They gave lots of acupuncture, which, again, is a bit...

Transcutaneous Electrical Stim at 36St and Telomere length

Ancient Wisdom Through the Ages This is an older study, but Omura’s work comes up over and over again in searches for telomere length and...

TVNS and Depression

  Ancient Medicine Made Modern This study looks at tVNS and depression. I’ve been studying Transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation in the clinic.  It involves a...

Nerve Growth Factor and Inflammation

I’m trying to get up to speed on Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) and its effect on inflammation.  Manni et all, have shown that NGF may...

Electro Acupuncture Improves Gastric Motility Through Vagal Activity

  Ancient Medicine Made Modern One more strategy to implement and study in the quest for vagal enhancement! Discussion of a similar strategy here using...

Electro-Acupuncture 36St for Allergy and Inflammation

  Ancient Medicine Made Modern I was just wondering today if I, perhaps, make things more complicated and use more points than I need to....

Terminology and Word Games: Somatosensory Stimulation

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet?  Apparently not.  The Somatosensory Stimulation in this article is acupuncture, of course.  I can’t blame...