Tag: acupuncture research
Brain Physiology Behind Electroacupuncture’s Modulating Effect on Blood Pressure
Nice. This article appears in Nature, quite a coup. There is a lot about this paper that surprises me. Perhaps I’m just not familiar enough with this type of experimental set up, and haven’t been aware of these studies. What they found was that naloxone interfered with the suppression of blood pressure by electroacupuncture…
Read MoreClinical Case Study: Complexity and Parasympathetic
I’ve been focusing on getting my presentation ready for the Anaheim AAMA conference coming up. But, as usual, when diving into any new research in my field, I’ve encountered some new perspectives that have been thought provoking. I’ve been in correspondence with Xavier Bornas who has done interesting work on Flight Phobia and HRV-no acupuncture-…
Read MoreStress Reduction Stories Good and Bad by the Data
Though we don’t know the end of this tale yet, it illustrates what the stress monitoring data may be telling us. The questions I’m actively investigating are How does the patient’s nervous system respond to the subtle stressor of needling? How does the patient’s stress level respond after needling on the table? What happens…
Read MoreAllergic Rhinitis and HRV
This reference is from 2009 and it has really changed the way I’m looking at all of this. What they maintain in their article is that patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis and atopy in general have too much parasympathetic input, ie too much “rest and digest.” How I missed this whole body of research is…
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 MoreElectroacupuncture and PCOS effects
This is a complicated/detailed study of the effects of electroacupuncture and manual acupuncture on a PCOS rat model. The details are way over my head, but it seems that the acupuncture effects are not necessarily achieved through the sympathetic nervous system. Of great interest to me since the autonomic nervous system is my area…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Acne: Clinical Case Study with HRV
This turned out to be a pretty good illustration of some of the issues I’m exploring with stress monitoring (HRV) as a function of acupuncture treatment. This is a patient late 30’s who has had some upheaval in her personal life, but healthy and fit by most metrics. Her most pressing problem at the…
Read MoreAcupuncture and Fertility: Case Studies with Stress Response(HRV)
The point of my research is to try to capture the healing “shift” that can occur with acupuncture. Heart rate variability (HRV) could be uniquely well suited to this since it reflects very subtle physiological changes. Since I don’t really know what I’m looking for exactly, I try to look in depth at the HRV data…
Read MoreNeurobiological Mechanisms of Acupuncture
A series of articles about the science and neurobiology of acupuncture treatment. The summary is here. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2014; 2014: 765068. Published online Nov 27, 2014. doi: 10.1155/2014/765068 PMCID: PMC4265683 Neurobiological Mechanisms of Acupuncture 2014 Lijun Bai, 1 , * Richard E. Harris, 2 Jian Kong, 3 Lixing Lao, 4 , 5 Vitaly Napadow, 6 and Baixiao Zhao 7 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Acupuncture is currently gaining…
Read MoreArticle Published: Does Acupuncture Reduce Stress Over Time?
This is the linkto my article just published on hypertensive patients. It will be available for 30 days from now online. Afterwards the abstract will be available. Thanks to all of the patients who had the patience to participate…
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