A research review of Acupuncture for Irritable Bowel Disease. As is often the case, acupuncture was better than medication, but not much better than sham acupuncture. The ongoing research dilemma for acupuncture. Click through for the whole abstract. University of
This is one more paper looking at the effect of acupuncture on gastric slow waves and includes HRV. There was a recent paper out of Germany (reviewed here) showing equivocal results on gastric slow waves, but increased HRV with acupuncture
The significance of this study for clinical acupuncture is dubious, but I like to catalog research done on the HPA system, as it is key in the stress response. Heart 7 seems to be the “go to” point for any
Another study from Litscher analyzing HRV on subjects in China from his lab in Austria. (If you search my site for “Litscher” you will find a number of posts on his research,too lazy to link to them.) I say “subjects”
I’m posting this article because it may corroborate my finding with autonomic response to acupuncture needle placement, so I want to put it somewhere where I can find it again… J Altern Complement Med. 2011 Nov;17(11):1021-7. Investigation of the delayed
This is another study looking at brain effects of electro-acupuncture on mice. This one uses Bladder 23, Bladder 17 and GV20 which they found infers protection against cortical and hippocampal aptosis. I don’t know exactly what to make of these
I was alerted to this Longhurst group journal article from last Februay, which I seemed to have missed. It has the advantage of having a free link to the entire article. There is quite a bit of information in there,
I can’t evaluate the validity of this study, but wanted to cite it because they use the same point, Heart 7, as in this study, that looked at alcoholism in rats. In the clinic there is a decline in alcohol
This is a comprehensive look at what is known about the different types of acupuncture point stimulation. A very nice reference article to have, and has free access to the article online. Factors contributing to therapeutic effects evaluated in
This is what my new analysis system data looks like on the screen. One can customize which parameters to look at, what window length to use, but most important, it has an extremely sophisticated, automatic method to manage artifact, which
