Medical Research

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: HRV, Moxibustion and Acupuncture

  Ancient Medicine Made Modern: Kimono as Art in Glass In this new study from Gerhard Litscher (friend of blog) hrv-moxa-and-chronic-fatigue-litscher, they compare a control...

Nonlinear Method of Calculating Autonomic Balance or HRV

  Ancient Medicine Made Modern This paper out of Howard University explores a more sensitive way of measuring LF/HF or sympathetic/parasympathetic activity in healthy volunteers. ...

5 Ways Acupuncture Can Help You: Men’s Health

  Acupuncture for Headache, Anxiety, Sports, GI problems and Back Pain Article that walks you through the rationale of 5 common ailments treated with acupuncture....

HRV after Laser, Manual Acupuncture, and Electromagnetic Field

  Kuan Yin to help relieve suffering and stress hrv-bl15-manual-acupxlaser-electromagfield J Acupunct Meridian Stud. 2016 Oct;9(5):257-263. Comparison of the Effects of Manual Acupuncture, Laser Acupuncture,...

Cupping Improves Autonomic Balance

  Kuan Yin Who Hears the Cries of the World This study is related to the previous one, so thought I’d post this too. wet-cupping-and-hrv...

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New Needle Introduced

  Calming, effective treatment. I like this idea very much.  They have developed a sort of “porous” acupuncture needle.  This should give a stronger physiological...

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health Strategic Plan

  Ancient Medicine Made Modern nccih_2016_strategic_plan  The NCCIH has come out with a new report on their strategic plan going forward.  In some ways it’s...

Electro Acupuncture on Scars for Postconcussion Syndrome and HRV

More like this! In this study they looked at HRV before and after electroacupuncture across scars in a woman with post concussion syndrome.  It is...

Hypothalamus and Amygdala Response to Acupuncture Stimuli in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

This article is almost 10 years old, but apparently I’ve never posted it on the blog.  It’s pertinent to the autonomic piece of the puzzle...