Tag: acupuncture and anti-inflammatory effects
Immunity and Schizophrenia
Another great piece by Moises Velasquez-Manoff. We looked at his work here and here a mong others. “Dr. Tsuyoshi Miyaoka, a psychiatrist treating him at the Shimane University School of Medicine in Japan, eventually diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia. He then prescribed a series of antipsychotic drugs. None helped. The man’s symptoms were, in medical parlance, “treatment…
Read MoreSeed and Soil: With Cancer We Need To Focus on Both
This important article in the New Yorker reinforces my approach to prevention and health. Siddhartha Mukherjee makes the point that cancer and its treatment should not just be focused on the cancer itself, but the body where it is housed. He draws the analogy of the recent mussel invasion of Lake Michigan. This type of…
Read MoreElectroacupuncture ST36 prevents postoperative intra-abdominal adhesions formation.
Fascinating study that shows electroacupuncture at St36 can reduce postoperative adhesions by anti-inflammatory cholinergic effects. Sham acupuncture does not have the same effect. Vagotomy reduces this effect. So somehow St36 has vagal enhancing characteristics. This is a key point for me since vagal tone is, to a large extent, what I am measuring…
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