http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23548121 Am J Chin Med. 2013;41(2):301-13. doi: 10.1142/S0192415X13500225. The influence of electro-acupuncture stimulation to female constipation patients. Chen CY1, Ke MD, Kuo CD, Huang CH, Hsueh YH, Chen JR. Author information 1Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science
I’ve been treating a 27 year old woman for headaches for a bit over 5 weeks. She was having 4 to 5 headaches a week and once they started they would not let up throughout the day. She has
This study supports my own observations about anxiety and why acupuncture might help. It calms the physical hyperarousal which then leads to thoughts which try to explain the physical sensations. I finally was able to unearth the ISAMS 2013 Stockholm
This is part of our submission (collaboration with B. Golianu from Stanford) for a special journal issue on treating sleep disorders in alternative medicine. It may or may not get accepted, hard to know… Treating Sleep Disorders in the Acupuncture
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24102794 J Obstet Gynaecol Res. 2014 Jan;40(1):192-9. doi: 10.1111/jog.12154. Epub 2013 Sep 19. Assessment of cardiovascular autonomic function in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome. Saranya K1, Pal GK, Habeebullah S, Pal P. Author information 1Department of Physiology, Jawaharlal Institute of
My manuscript is submitted to Medical Acupuncture as of last Friday night (yay.) (Update: Came boomeranging back with a bunch of changes I have to make. grrr. Another few hours of my life I will never get back) As a brief reminder,
This study ambitiously explores catgut-embedding for the havoc wrought by stress on senility. One of Sapolsky’s key findings was that stress causes a feed forward loop on the hippocampus during senility. The altered hippocampus then causes more stress, which
A patient of mine alerted me to this Korean study. They compared sham ear acupuncture (needles placed then immediately withdrawn) to 5 ear acupuncture points (Korean formula) and 1 ear acupuncture point (Hunger point.) Both the 5 point and the one
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
I love this study. It is suggesting a novel, and reasonable model for acupuncture’s effectiveness over time. Habituation is a topic I know nothing about, indeed, never really thought about except in regards to opiates. This study lays out
