Tag: acupuncture research
Article 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…
Read MoreAbstract for AAMA Submission 2014
I will simply cut and paste here, and also put it up as a pdf. Abstract_doc AAMA submission The AAMA refers to the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture. The Journal is Medical Acupuncture. Does Acupuncture Reduce Stress Over Time? A Clinical Heart Rate Variability Study in Hypertensive Patients ABSTRACT Background: Heart Rate Variability (HRV), a…
Read MoreAcupuncture Reduces Hypertension Over Drugs
A recent study shows that acupuncture works better than drugs for some types of high blood pressure. See excerpt below. By the way, my journal article, entitled “Does Acupuncture Reduce Stress Over Time? A Clinical Heart Rate Variability Study in Hypertensive Patients” is in press now. “Acupuncture reduces high blood pressure for patients with hypertension. In…
Read MorePhantom Needling: Novel Sham Acupuncture Technique
A Vitaly Napadow article which explores using a video camera to suggest that a patient is getting acupuncture, when in fact they are not. There are many interesting findings. A key finding that affects my work and conclusions is that vagal enhancement seems to accompany the placebo effect. So what that means is that…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Hypertension: Remarkable Case Study
This is the amazing case of a 60+ year old woman with long standing (30 year) history of high blood pressure. Her daughter brought her in for acupuncture treatment since she refuses any sort of medications. She comes from a more traditional society and is skeptical of modern medicine and always found an excuse to stop…
Read MoreHRV and Trigger Point Acupuncture
It occurs to me that perhaps my audience doesn’t exactly follow why I am so interested (as a western trained physician) in Heart Rate Variability (HRV), or even acupuncture for that matter. This is how I see it. Acupuncture somehow functions to calm the nervous system. This has many beneficial outcomes. It reduces pain,…
Read MoreNeural Encoding of Acupuncture Needling Sensation
I like this study because it’s very precise. It also uses strictly deqi as a stimulation technique. This is part of a larger study I’m doing to come up with new models for acupuncture treatment Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 483105, 15 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/483105 Neural Encoding of Acupuncture Needling…
Read MoreSummary of Acupuncture Physiology: Relevance for GI Tract
Nice succinct review of the current understanding of acupuncture’s effects physiologically. Int Rev Neurobiol. 2013;111:273-94 Effect and mechanism of acupuncture on gastrointestinal diseases. Takahashi T. Source Department of Neurology and Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin and Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Electronic address: ttakahashi@mcw.edu. Abstract Acupuncture modulates various biomechanical responses, such…
Read MoreSamueli Institute: Some Background from Wired Magazine
This article is older, but I wanted to include it in the blog archive because the Samueli Institute is pretty unique. But it isn’t all inner peace and holistic healing. The Institute was founded by a Fortune 500 billionaire with a history of financial scandal. They pay their director nearly half a million dollars each…
Read MoreAuricular acupunture for seizures: Animal Study
This article is of interest because of the vagal activation incurred by auricular acupuncture. I should use/study it more. Too many projects… Full article here. BMC Neurosci. 2013 Aug 9;14:85. doi: 10.1186/1471-2202-14-85. The auriculo-vagal afferent pathway and its role in seizure suppression in rats. He W, Jing XH, Zhu B, Zhu XL, Li L, Bai…
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