Tag: acupuncture as prevention
Acupuncture for Dry Eyes
Hilarious. This is an example of not seeing what’s right in front of your nose. I finally broke down and went to the eye doctor because I have been suffering from eye irritation for over a year, assuming it was dry eyes. It is, along with a bit of allergy. Why didn’t I think about…
Read MoreNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health Strategic Plan
nccih_2016_strategic_plan The NCCIH has come out with a new report on their strategic plan going forward. In some ways it’s very encouraging and exciting since they are prioritizing conditions that I’ve been focusing on for years, pain, anxiety and depression. On the other hand it’s maddening since, though it’s no excuse for no results,…
Read MoreMigraine and Stress Levels, HRV, and Results(Sa.Be.)
More data from one of the migraine patients featured here. Remember decreasing stress levels as measured by HRV, improves pain, immune function, mood and longevity. In the case of migraine, it raises the threshold that will lead to migraine. In this case, she has now has had 5 visits, with no migraine in spite of…
Read MoreClinical Cases: Migraine and Stress Monitoring
Two recent migraine cases. Two young women, both dramatic clinical responders with headaches decreasing within a few sessions. I want to point out a few things in their data, or rather pose some questions. Look at the dramatic increase in stress levels with needling. I’ve seen this before, not always with migraine, but it does…
Read MoreHypertension, HRV and Acupuncture: Case Study (Ch.Ri)
This data is from a young woman with essential hypertension, seeking nonpharmacological solutions for her blood pressure. I’ve seen her for years, but am only including the last 6 months worth of data for simplicity. Any condition that has a stress component, like hypertension, would benefit from acupuncture, but also from vagal enhancement. To that…
Read MoreAcupuncture, HRV, and Multiple Sclerosis
2016 data from this patient who comes regularly for prevention/optimization acupuncture. She carries a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. She is best served by keeping her immune system optimized and her preference is to do this with acupuncture. This, of course, is a hard thing to prove, but her symptoms are infrequent and her MRI’s…
Read MoreAcupuncture Moderately Effective for Knee Pain in over 50 yr olds
Altern Ther Health Med. 2016 Mar;22(3):32-6. Acupuncture is Effective for Chronic Knee Pain: A Reanalysis of the Australian Acupuncture Trial. Yin Fan A, Zhou K, Gu S, Ming Li Y. Abstract Context • In the October 2014 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Hinman et al published the results of an…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Stable Coronary Artery Disease and HRV
This study was done at UCLA, and nicely done. I’m trying to get a reprint to see what exactly their treatment was, and what HRV parameters they were looking at. (Update: reprint hereMehta.Acupuncture.1-s2.0-S0167527314012017-main) In sum, what they found was that the acupuncture caused vagal enhancement, but no change in other parameters. And, (this is…
Read MoreArticle Published: Does Acupuncture Reduce Stress Over Time?
This is the linkto my article just published on hypertensive patients. It will be available for 30 days from now online. Afterwards the abstract will be available. Thanks to all of the patients who had the patience to participate…
Read MoreStress, Bowel Disease, and Anxiety
I went to this talk a week ago. Aditi Bhargava has developed a model of ongoing stress in mice with focus not only on gut health, but how it affects anxiety states. The talk had some aspects that lost me (probably more my fault than hers) but the topic of stress and how it relates…
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