Tag: acupuncture and immune response
Immunity and Schizophrenia
Another great piece by Moises Velasquez-Manoff. We looked at his work here and here a mong others. “Dr. Tsuyoshi Miyaoka, a psychiatrist treating him at the Shimane University School of Medicine in Japan, eventually diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia. He then prescribed a series of antipsychotic drugs. None helped. The man’s symptoms were, in medical parlance, “treatment…
Read MoreStress Reduction Over Time: Lu.Wi. Edition
This is another set of data from a healthy patient in his mid thirties who has issues with allergies, anxiety, insomnia. This is his data for the first year of treatment. Again we see an increase over time.
Read MoreImprovement in HRV, Autonomic Balance Over Time? Vi.Le edition RMSSD
This data is from a patient we’ve looked at before. One overriding goal of this HRV project (looking at stress levels and autonomic balance in conjunction with acupuncture) is to explore and document stress levels over time with consistent treatment. Of course correlation doesn’t mean causation, but it is something that is of tremendous interest…
Read MoreAuricular Neuromodulation: The Emerging Concept beyond the Stimulation of Vagus and Trigeminal Nerves
Another article exploring the uses of transcutaneous auricular vagal nerve stimulation and the physiology of its effects. So many of the studies are small, so not definitive. I am also wary since there is a “gold rush” to produce expensive products to exploit the benefits of vagal nerve enhancement. Among the cited conditions that might…
Read MoreHeart Rate Variability in Fibromyalgia Patients
I have treated fibromyalgia patients over the years, and the condition is of intense interest in the Acupuncture Research Community. This article indicates that autonomic dysfunction plays a part in the disease. Front Physiol. 2018 Aug 17;9:1118. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01118. eCollection 2018. Multifractal Analysis Reveals Decreased Non-linearity and Stronger Anticorrelations in Heart Period Fluctuations of Fibromyalgia…
Read MoreRelationship between regional mast cell activity and peripheral nerve discharges during manual acupuncture stimulation of “Zusanli” (ST 36)
Zhen Ci Yan Jiu. 2013 Apr;38(2):118-22. [Relationship between regional mast cell activity and peripheral nerve discharges during manual acupuncture stimulation of “Zusanli” (ST 36)]. [Article in Chinese] Sa ZY1, Huang M, Zhang D, Ding GH. Author information Abstract OBJECTIVE: To observe changes of discharges of the sciatic nerve branch and mast cell activities and collagen…
Read MoreNerve Stimulation: Immunomodulation and Control of Inflammation.
Immunomodulation and control of inflammation Torres Rosas 4.7.2018 Another great article by Luis Ulloa and Torres-Rosas. I can’t stress enough the importance of this kind of thinking. Calm your system, you calm inflammation and autoimmune. Trends Mol Med. 2017 Dec;23(12):1103-1120. doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2017.10.006. Epub 2017 Nov 20. Nerve Stimulation: Immunomodulation and Control of Inflammation. Ulloa L1,…
Read MoreMast cells are important regulator of acupoint sensitization via the secretion of tryptase, 5-hydroxytryptamine, and histamine.
This article gets to the heart of how I’m thinking about acupuncture. There is a school of thought that nerve stimulation is necessary to achieve clinical results. Longhurst, for example, is an advocate for that approach and all of his protocols employ electroacupuncture. I’m assuming his mental model assumes that nerve stimulation is the basis…
Read MoreAcupuncture and Allergy, Facial Rash: Clinical Case Study HRV, No.Ge. edition
As in the previous post, this patient has had good clinical results. Thought the rash is still present, it is better and less of an issue. It is a facial rash of unknown origin, with patchy red blotches on the neck, around the eyes and mouth. She seems to have responded to electroacupuncture, a published…
Read MoreAcupuncture Mechanisms for Asthma
This animal study demonstrates some of the mechanisms behind acupuncture’s effectiveness for asthma including airway inflammation and the hypothalamic-adrenal-pituitary axis. These effects are not unique to asthma, and can help to explain acupuncture’s effectiveness in other immune and inflammatory dysfunction. Neurosci Lett. 2017 Jan 1;636:177-183. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2016.11.001. Epub 2016 Nov 2. Regulation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity…
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