This animal study demonstrates some of the mechanisms behind acupuncture’s effectiveness for asthma including airway inflammation and the hypothalamic-adrenal-pituitary axis. These effects are not unique to asthma, and can help to explain acupuncture’s effectiveness in other immune and inflammatory dysfunction.
This group is experimenting with an approach that I have been using, ie electrical stimulation of the ear to normalize autonomic disturbances. They’ve taken a more aggressive approach by placing electrodes in the ear and then giving 96 hours of
This is the story and data of of a new patient ,who developed anxiety disorder characterized by a queasy sensation, palpitations, discomfort, and dis-ease. She has responded quickly to acupuncture and though not “cured” has fewer symptoms and has less
This is another example of a migraine patient showing marked parasympathetic increase, sympathetic decrease with TaVNS or transcutaneous auricular vagal nerve stimulation in conjunction with acupuncture. I realize that the data sets are still sparse, but interesting nonetheless. This patient
This Australian group studied the most likely Chinese Medicine diagnoses associated with the basket term “stress.” This could be very useful going forward in trying to identify and predict best treatment options for individual patients.
This data is from a patient who we’ve discussed before here and here. She feels a relaxation response with the ear stim. I’ve done the alternating earstim on her and this last session I tried the neck electrode in
This is a copy of the paper from this same author describing in detail the electrode that he made for ear stimulation. But it has a lot of other information about the theory and applications of using transcutaneous auricular vagal
This data is looking quite promising. I had clinical success with this 30+ yr old male almost immediately, and his migraines have remained gone, though he still gets an occasional aura. The last treatment combined acupuncture with Tavns with some
This is a retrospective study that explores the most commonly used ear acupuncture points and concludes that vagal nerve stimulation may be the mechanism of pain reduction. I met the first author at a conference in Barcelona 3 years ago.
I wanted to just quickly post this interesting data. This is a patient who began coming in for treatment for hot flashes after breast cancer treatment with anti-estrogen therapy. The acupuncture worked quite well for that and the hot flashes
