Nice study looking at the cumulative effects of head massage over time with HRV. They do some data analysis that I didn’t quite follow, but show the the HF component increased over time, a measure of parasympathetic activity.
I think I might have already posted this, but wanted to make sure I had it!
This article validates my own findings. Complement Ther Med. 2015 Oct;23(5):658-65. doi: 10.1016/j.ctim.2015.06.014. Epub 2015 Jul 15. Acupuncture lowers blood pressure in mild hypertension patients: a randomized, controlled, assessor-blinded pilot trial. Liu Y1, Park JE2, Shin KM3, Lee M4, Jung
This data is from a patient who came in for facial acupuncture. It shows what I like to see. The blue bars represent High Frequency data, or the parasympathetic activity before, during and after needling. There seems to be a
This study is by the same group that looked at rectal distension and HRV in dogs. In this study in rats, the stim at St 36 increased sympathetic, not parasympathetic activity. So I have an email in to the
This data belongs to a 30 year old patient who has had severe allergies for years. After just a month of weekly (more or less) acupuncture she feels much better. In fact her symptoms started feeling better after just a
As another installment of the Good, the Bad and the Beautiful HRV data, this is recent data from a patient who comes in regularly for health and facial rejuvenation. She is always up for any of my “experiments” and so
Each group of bars represents a treatment date. Each bar represents 3 minutes of stress data, the smaller the bar, the less the stress. The dark blue bar is the needling segment, if it is missing, then monitoring was started
I spoke with this researcher and was very gratified by his results, since acupuncture fixed my allergies! ACUPUNCTURE DOWNREGULATES HOUSE DUST MITE SPECIFIC IGE AND SUBSTANCE P AND IMPROVES SYMPTOMS AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN ADULTS WITH PERSISTENT ALLERGIC RHINITIS
This is one of the abstracts from the SAR showing that with auricular acupuncture, sympathetic activity was more affected than parasympathetic. It’s difficult to comment on this since I’m a bit unclear what points in the ear they used. ANALYSES
