Low Cardiac Vagal Control associated with worsening anxiety in breast cancer patients
Destress with Acupuncture This article is significant in that this baseline heart rate variability value may influence how people react to stessors. Could acupuncture...
Relationship between Vagal Tone, Cortisol, TNF-Alpha, Epinephrine and Negative Affects in Crohn’s Disease and Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25207649 PLoS One. 2014 Sep 10;9(9):e105328. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105328. eCollection 2014. Relationship between Vagal Tone, Cortisol, TNF-Alpha, Epinephrine and Negative Affects in Crohn’s Disease and Irritable...
Silence
Kuan LinGoddess of Compassion“She who hears the cries of the world” I haven’t posted lately due to some upheaval at the office, final touches...
Acupuncture and Allergies: Catgut embedding
Ancient Wisdom Through the Ages I can speculate on a few reasons why catgut embedding might be more effective than acupuncture alone. Zhongguo Zhen...
Calm the Nervous System, Calm Inflammation
The biotech community has discovered vagal stimulation and is hot on its trail, as covered in this piece about SetPoint Medical. Of course, we in the...
Acute inflammation in the joint: its control by the sympathetic nervous system and by neuroendocrine systems
I’m going through data and just can’t grapple with the different profiles of different patients. Methinks it is much more complicated than I want to...
Affective Instability in Daily Life Is Predicted by Resting Heart Rate Variability
This is a Plos One, so the whole article is available online. They make that case that positive affect is correlated with high HRV. I Been...
Scooped! Tiny Wireless Implants
This has been the ultimate goal of mine, the tiny implant that could mimic acupuncture needling on an ongoing basis. They are developing the technology. ...