Technical article looking at low frequency electroacupuncture in cats at P5 and P6 and the brain circuits responsible for the cardiac sympathoinhibition. Cardiac sympathoinhibition is another way to say a decrease in the stress response. The last blog post was
After posting about PCOS and alternative medicine, (see here,) I was able to contact Elisabet Stener-Vitorin and she was kind enough to send a few reprints of other studies of hers. One of the more recent ones looks at low
There is a review article in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Physiological Endocrinology looking at Complementary Medical methods of approaching Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. The authors postulate that acupuncture is useful through its “modulation of the activity
Dysmenorrhea in layman’s terms is menstrual cramps, or menstrual pain. I was not aware that dysmenorrhea had an autonomic component. They used a simple point selection and a simple cross-over design. The subjects had one month with sham acupuncture (SA)
This is another study looking at alcohol self-administration, in Rats, mind you, but this one looks at the brain physiology behind acupuncture’s effects. Their conclusion was “These findings suggest that DOR-mediated opioid modulation of VTA GABA neurons may mediate acupuncture’s
This undercuts one of my theories that if someone’s autonomics, heart rate variability (HRV) are improved with acupuncture then they are more likely to see improvement in their symptoms. In this study, the patients improved in 11 out of 12
From the available acupuncture literature this group concluded that acupuncture can be of benefit for fertility treatments in women with Polycystic Ovary Disease. In addition, it can increase the rate of live births during embryo transfer for invitro fertilization patients
In the U.K. and in Canada “quality-adjusted life years” can be part of their study’s outcome measurements and cost-effectiveness. Since both countries have a National Health Service, it is in the Health Services interests to keep people well and in
I hope I’ll be able to get a copy of this article. If I do, I’ll post again on the details. Here are the money quotes: “Acupuncture may represent a unique avenue of treatment for poor sleep by virtue of
I do have some problems with this study, even though it does address my two favorite topics, HRV(heart rate variability-a way to monitor stress response) and acupuncture. I strongly disagree with their opening statement that there is no evidence that
