Tag: acupuncture and allergies
Sympathetic Tone and Electrical Stim at LI11
In this post, I cited the article that looked at electro at LI11. In this study it decreases sympathetic activity. I am usually looking at parasympathetic activity, but decreasing sympathetic (fright/flight) is of huge interest also. This point is also interesting because it’s an alternative point for treating high blood pressure in Longhurst’s protocol. What…
Read MoreTattoos, Hormesis, Acupuncture and Health
American Journal Of Human Biology, Volume 28, Issue 5, September/October 2016 Pages: 599-602 First Published: 06 September 2016 Tattooing to “Toughen up”: Tattoo experience and secretory immunoglobulin A Christopher D. Lynn, Johnna T. Dominguez, Jason A. DeCaro I’m sure this is what we see with Acupuncture too. It’s the repeated slight stress to the system that leads…
Read MoreAcupuncture Reduces Dust Mite Associated IgE
The author of this paper presented a poster at the SAR conference in Boston last November. Acupuncture basically “cured” my allergies, so I’ve continued to have a keen interest in acupuncture and allergy and immune response in general. This study compares real acupuncture, with sham acupuncture, and a control group. Only the verum acupuncture showed…
Read MoreClinical Case Study: Complexity and Parasympathetic
I’ve been focusing on getting my presentation ready for the Anaheim AAMA conference coming up. But, as usual, when diving into any new research in my field, I’ve encountered some new perspectives that have been thought provoking. I’ve been in correspondence with Xavier Bornas who has done interesting work on Flight Phobia and HRV-no acupuncture-…
Read MoreAcupuncture and Immunity
At the SAR conference in Boston, I was reading up on some of the participants. I noticed Sandra Silverio-Lopes has a few posters that she is presenting. She is from Brazil, studied in China. I found this chapter that she wrote on Immunity and Acupuncture from 2013. It’s quite comprehensive and I’m happy to have…
Read MoreAllergic Rhinitis Physiology and Acupuncture Relevance
Nice background info on acupuncture’s mechanisms. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013; PMCID: PMC3586443 The Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Acupuncture and Their Relevance to Allergic Rhinitis: A Narrative Review and Proposed Model John L. McDonald, 1 Allan W. Cripps, 1 ,* Peter K. Smith, 1 Caroline A. Smith, 2 Charlie C. Xue, 3 and Brenda…
Read MoreAllergic Rhinitis and HRV
This reference is from 2009 and it has really changed the way I’m looking at all of this. What they maintain in their article is that patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis and atopy in general have too much parasympathetic input, ie too much “rest and digest.” How I missed this whole body of research is…
Read MoreAutonomic Function, HRV, in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis
This article looks at autonomic balance before and after a series of 12 acupuncture sessions. (Update: full article text here.)What they say is that the patients with Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis have a higher resting heart rate to start, and blunted cardiovascular response to cold pressor test. This is fascinating to me since one of the…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Allergic Rhinitis
This article is from the group in Berlin, and back ground for a subsequent blog post. Their conclusion was that acupuncture was effective, but not cost effective. I would argue that they didn’t run the experiment long enough. In my own case, my allergies have been under control for decades since my original acupuncture treatment…
Read MoreVagal Tone and Immune Regulation
This ties into my area of interest of monitoring vagal tone during acupuncture treatment. Acupuncture can be helpful with pain, but more interestingly, with immune problems such as allergy. Since immune function is thought to be implicated in so many modern ailments, from rheumatoid arthritis to cancer to autism, this type of thinking may…
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