Tag: acupuncture and immune system
Seed 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 MoreAcupuncture and Autoimmune (Ch.Va): HRV
This “case of the day” highlights a few aspects of stress monitoring as a guide in Acupuncture. Review: HRV is a measure of autonomic balance /stress levels) Each group of columns represents one clinic visit, each column 3 minutes of data. I look at each visit for response and also over time (weeks to…
Read MoreHRV, Stress and Multiple Sclerosis
We have discussed this patient who has multiple sclerosis before, but this is her updated data. Keep in mind this is a patient who is presently asymptomatic, and comes in for treatment to lower her stress in order to optimize her immune function. So this data is useful. It shows optimization, ie lower stress over time, so we…
Read MoreEffect of 100 Hz electroacupuncture on salivary immunoglobulin A and the autonomic nervous system
Effect of 100 Hz electroacupuncture on salivary immunoglobulin A and the autonomic nervous system Waki Hideaki,1 Hisajima Tatsuya,2,3 Miyazaki Shogo,2,3 Yoshida Naruto,2,3 Tamai Hideaki,2,3 Minakawa Yoichi,2,3 Okuma Yoshihiro,2,3 Uebaba Kazuo,2,3 and Takahashi Hidenori2,3 Abstract Background A previous study has reported that low-frequency (LF) electroacupuncture (EA) influences salivary secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) and the autonomic nervous system…
Read MoreAcupuncture, HRV, and Multiple Sclerosis
2016 data from this patient who comes regularly for prevention/optimization acupuncture. She carries a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. She is best served by keeping her immune system optimized and her preference is to do this with acupuncture. This, of course, is a hard thing to prove, but her symptoms are infrequent and her MRI’s…
Read MoreTattoos, Hormesis, Acupuncture and Health
American Journal Of Human Biology, Volume 28, Issue 5, September/October 2016 Pages: 599-602 First Published: 06 September 2016 Tattooing to “Toughen up”: Tattoo experience and secretory immunoglobulin A Christopher D. Lynn, Johnna T. Dominguez, Jason A. DeCaro I’m sure this is what we see with Acupuncture too. It’s the repeated slight stress to the system that leads…
Read MoreAcupuncture Reduces Dust Mite Associated IgE
The author of this paper presented a poster at the SAR conference in Boston last November. Acupuncture basically “cured” my allergies, so I’ve continued to have a keen interest in acupuncture and allergy and immune response in general. This study compares real acupuncture, with sham acupuncture, and a control group. Only the verum acupuncture showed…
Read MoreAcupuncture and Immunity
At the SAR conference in Boston, I was reading up on some of the participants. I noticed Sandra Silverio-Lopes has a few posters that she is presenting. She is from Brazil, studied in China. I found this chapter that she wrote on Immunity and Acupuncture from 2013. It’s quite comprehensive and I’m happy to have…
Read MoreAllergic Rhinitis Physiology and Acupuncture Relevance
Nice background info on acupuncture’s mechanisms. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013; PMCID: PMC3586443 The Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Acupuncture and Their Relevance to Allergic Rhinitis: A Narrative Review and Proposed Model John L. McDonald, 1 Allan W. Cripps, 1 ,* Peter K. Smith, 1 Caroline A. Smith, 2 Charlie C. Xue, 3 and Brenda…
Read MoreAutonomic Function, HRV, in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis
This article looks at autonomic balance before and after a series of 12 acupuncture sessions. (Update: full article text here.)What they say is that the patients with Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis have a higher resting heart rate to start, and blunted cardiovascular response to cold pressor test. This is fascinating to me since one of the…
Read More