Over the years, acupuncture has plagued the Western medical experts, it is not surprising. Acupuncture theory, there is something called "gas" the invisible life energy meridians in the body 14 to run back and forth, while the pain is due to the gas block and the imbalance caused. Acupuncturists believe that in some specific points on the human body into the needle, can help smooth the meridians to treat all diseases, from arthritis and asthma to anxiety, acne and infertility to name a few.
It sounds a bit like a fairy tale, but acupuncture does have an effect on the human body, and scientists are using high-tech means to record one of the process. Neuroimaging studies have shown that acupuncture seems to calm the brain that register pain and activate those involving rest and recuperation area of the brain. Doppler ultrasound shows that acupuncture can increase blood circulation of the treatment site; infrared thermal imaging technology shows that it can promote inflammation subsided.
Scientists also found that the ancient concepts and similarities between modern anatomy. 365 acupuncture points correspond to the nerve and muscle bundles, several meridians major arteries and nerves. Jacksonville, Florida (Jacksonville) Mayo Clinic (Mayo Clinic) pain control and rehabilitation experts, Peter. Multi Shell (Peter Dorsher) said that heart attack patients, the pain will radiate to the chest, and down to the left arm, which It is the trend of the Heart Sutra. Gallbladder pain may radiate to the upper right shoulder, this is the gall bladder meridian goes. "
Of course, there are still many medical experts acupuncture deeply skeptical about the efficacy of acupuncture research have been mixed. "You put the needle into a patient will be some measurable things I am not surprised." University of Exeter (University of Exeter), Professor of complementary medicine, "trick or a treat" (Trick or Treatment) of the book Edzard. Ernst (Edzard Ernst) said that acupuncture "clearly has a strong role in the psychological comfort, but whether there are other effects, inconclusive."
Even so, the application of acupuncture continues to expand ─ ─ often as conventional medicine. U.S. armed forces doctors are using acupuncture to treat musculoskeletal problems, pain and stress symptoms, whether the hospital in the United States, or in the theater hospital in Iraq and Afghanistan. Acupuncturists Without Borders Association (Acupuncturists Without Borders) to the earthquake victims in Haiti for free ear acupuncture to help relieve their stress. Major medical centers ─ ─ from the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston (MD Anderson) to New York's Sloan. Kaide Lin Memorial Cancer Center (Memorial Sloan-Kettering) ─ ─ use acupuncture to reduce side effects of chemotherapy.
United States Government under the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) 2007 survey year, 320 million Americans in 2006 had received acupuncture ─ ─ more than 2.1 million in 2001 increased.
The most common areas of acupuncture when conventional medicine fails in the treatment of chronic pain, such as arthritis, low back pain and headache, are also often used to treat fatigue, anxiety and digestive problems. Acupuncture $ 50 per session, relatively inexpensive, and some insurers also reimburse the costs.
In general, acupuncture is relatively safe. Only 10% of patients in the acupuncture course there are some bleeding, but only in very rare cases, vital organs will be because of infection or injury, a fatal situation.
Most states require that acupuncturists be licensed to practice, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Food and Drug Administration) requested acupuncture must use new and sterile needles.
Acupuncture diagnostic process more complex. Acupuncture physician examine a patient's tongue, and take three on each wrist vein, and asking questions about diet, sleep habits, etc., before determining where the meridians may be blocked and where to do acupuncture. The 14 meridians are rivers of China, and 365 points may represent the year of 365 days. Wind, cold, heat, dampness, and other "enemies" will cause the disease, while gold, wood, water, fire, earth, five phases will make people sick.
"Acupuncture treatment is not similar to the" Merck Manual "(Merck Manual) that the standard treatment process," Joseph. Holmes (Joseph M. Helms) said that his Berkeley, California (Berkeley) in the medical center has trained about 4,000 acupuncturist. "Every treatment must be assessed according to individual circumstances, the statement by the patient and the physician's knowledge and experience of acupuncture."
Dr Holmes said, Western medicine also check the patient's tongue for signs of illness. For the "gas", he said, although the word does not exist in Western medicine, but a similar concept. "We will say that the 27-year-old woman in a near-death state, no response to external stimuli. Or say the 85-year-old woman's eyes hollow. It is also talking about the same energy and vitality, but it did not a category separate to quantify it. "
Early 20th century, 80 studies have found that acupuncture produces its effects in part because of stimulation of the body to release endorphins (endorphins), which is a pleasant feel of natural compounds, like the kind of post-exercise comfort.
McMaster University, Ontario, Canada (McMaster University) Project Director acupuncture Alai Jane Rohe. 艾罗里亚加 (Alejandro Elorriaga) said that now, more and more studies have found that acupuncture treatment may have several mechanisms at the same time exist, including the promotion of acupuncture parts of the blood circulation and tissue regeneration, control of pain to the brain sends nerve signals, and restart the control of heart rate, respiration and digestion and other functions of the autonomic nervous system unconscious. The project is a professor of modern acupuncture.
"Whether the west or east of the medical thought, as long as you accept acupuncture treatment, you will get some results." 艾罗里亚加 professor said.
In addition, when the acupuncture needles into the body and rotated, it will produce a strange phenomenon: According to the University of Vermont (University of Vermont) in the ultrasound study, connective tissue wraps around acupuncture needles, like spaghetti around a fork, the same. Irina neurologist. Lange Man (Helene Langevin), said action of acupuncture stimulation of the connective tissue cells, like massage and yoga to them, and may form a acupuncture meridians, send signals to the body. She said: "This is the direction we want to study next."
At the same time, Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital (Massachusetts General Hospital) Center for Biomedical Imaging Martinos (Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging) neuroimaging studies have shown that acupuncture can affect the brain of a nervous system, including the slow edge system (the brain's emotional center) of neural activity, and stimulate the brain may play a role in the break area of some neural activity.
Martino Centre shown in other studies, people with carpal tunnel syndrome (wrist pain caused by nerve compression symptoms) of patients, their brain sensation and fear of the regional activities, but after acupuncture treatment, the brain neural activity closer to healthy people.
Patients with fibromyalgia brain scans showed that acupuncture and sham acupuncture (acupuncture in random physical) cause the body to release endorphins, but the real acupuncture treatment also increased the pain neurotransmitter receptor number, give the patient more comfort.
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