Acupuncture stimulation increases local blood flow around the site of stimulation and induces signal changes in brain regions related to the body matrix. The rubber hand illusion (RHI) is an experimental paradigm that manipulates important aspects of bodily self-awareness. The present study aimed to investigate how modifications of body ownership using the RHI affect local blood flow and cerebr...

Some time ago, this very question was posted to an Internet laser discussion group in response to the assertion that light emitting diodes (LEDs) and other light sources might work as well in the clinic. This topic was raised again in the June issue of Acupuncture Today. In this article, we will explore how coherence, a property unique to laser light, creates a dynamic, asymmetrical energy dist...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: preoperative anxiety has become more frequent in preoperative patients and can bring negative impact on operation outcomes. many studies have reported the effect of body acupuncture in reducing anxiety syndromes. the aim of this study is to compare the treatment effect of body acupuncture and auricular acupunct...

BACKGROUND Acute herpes zoster is a prevalent condition. One of its major symptoms is pain, which can highly influence patient's quality of life. Pain therapy is limited. Acupuncture is supposed to soften neuropathic pain conditions and might therefore act as a therapeutic alternative. Objective of the present study is to investigate whether a 4 week semi-standardised acupuncture is non-inferio...

1 Acupuncture andMoxibustion Department, Beijing Hospital of Traditional ChineseMedicine Affiliated to CapitalMedical University, 23 Meishuguanhou Street, Dongcheng, Beijing 100010, China 2 Stronach Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, TCM Research Center Graz, Medical University of Gra...

This fourth part of a series of Sino-European high-tech acupuncture studies describes the first clinical transcontinental teleacupuncture measurements in two patients (cervical spine syndrome and tachycardia; both 27 years old) from the Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated to Capital Medical University, China. The electrocardiographic data were transferred to the Stronach...

COMMENTARY The phenomenon of fainting during acupuncture was first mentioned in the ancient Chinese medicine book Huangdi Neijing, which scholars date between the late Warring States period (475 to 221 BCE) and the Han dynasty (206 BCE to 220 CE). This reaction to acupuncture is familiar in Western contexts as needle phobia. Needle phobia can be a true phobia or a vasovagal response, which can ...

This study focused on the effects of laser acupuncture (LA) and manual acupuncture (MA) at different acupoints on gastric motility and heart rate variability (HRV) simultaneously to elucidate the site specific effects of acupoints and the correlation between changes of gastric motility and low frequency/high frequency (LF/HF) ratio. Gastric motility and HRV were recorded before and during MA or...

1 Acupuncture Research Center, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan 2Graduate Institute of Integrative Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan 3Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung 40402, Taiwan 4University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 5 Graduate Institute of Acupuncture Science, College of Chinese Med...

In the October 2014 publication of JAMA, Dr. Hinman and colleagues published the study “Acupuncture for Chronic Knee Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial,” in which the authors concluded that “in patients older than 50 years with moderate or severe chronic knee pain, neither laser nor needle acupuncture conferred benefit over sham for pain or function. Our findings do not support acupuncture for t...