Acupuncture is an ancient East Asian healing modality that has been in use for more than
2000 years. Unfortunately, its mechanisms of action are not well understood, and …

Acupuncture, one of the primary methods of treatment in traditional Oriental medicine, is
based on a system of meridians. Along the meridians lie acupuncture points or acupoints …

Basics of Acupuncture shows that it is possible to integrate Western medicine and traditional
Chinese concepts. It starts with an updated review of the scientific bases of acupuncture and …

In recent years in the west, acupuncture analgesia (AA) has been restricted mainly to the
treatment of chronic pain and has not been used for surgical procedures except for …

Following an introduction to the philosophical and theoreti-cal background of traditional
Chinese medicine, the dia-gnostic system is presented: the Chinese system of channels and …

Comparison of Superficial and Deep Acupuncture in the Treatm... : The Clinical Journal of
Pain Comparison of Superficial and Deep Acupuncture in the Treatment of Lumbar …

Referee: Dr. Susan Yanovski, National Task force on Ptrevention and Treatment of Obesity,
NIDDK, Bldg 45, RM 6AN-18B, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892 …

In 1988, when" Scientific Bases of Acupuncture" was published, its edi tors noted that 12
years had passed since the acupuncture endorphin hypothesis was first postulated, an …

Despite having made substantial progress in academic rigor over the past decades,
acupuncture research has been the focus of long-standing and persistent attacks by …

As recent studies demonstrated, acupuncture can elicit activity in specific brain areas. This
study aims to explore further the central effect using laser acupuncture. We investigated the …