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Acupuncture Analgesia and Anesthesia
Archives of Surgery, 1977After the war of liberation, Mao Tse Tung encouraged an integration of Western and traditional Chinese medicine. Several schools of therapeutic acupuncture have defined different points of puncture, originally assumed to be on an empiric basis but now rationalized as areas where nerve endings congregate.
T M, Murphy, J J, Bonica
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2022
The paradigm of allopathic medicine has focused largely on the management of physical pain during end-of-life care. There are, however, multiple dimensions of distress associated with dying. These include the physical sensations of pain, dyspnea, nausea, and anxiety as well as suffering that is psychological, social, or spiritual in nature.
Noah Cooperstein, Jonathan Thoma
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The paradigm of allopathic medicine has focused largely on the management of physical pain during end-of-life care. There are, however, multiple dimensions of distress associated with dying. These include the physical sensations of pain, dyspnea, nausea, and anxiety as well as suffering that is psychological, social, or spiritual in nature.
Noah Cooperstein, Jonathan Thoma
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Acupuncture Analgesia in China
The American Journal of Chinese Medicine, 1975A delegation of ten Canadian anaesthetists visited the People's Republic of China in April and May 1974 and observed 87 surgical and 19 dental operations under acupuncture analgesia. In 80% of the cases observed the analgesia appeared adequate for the conduct for the planned surgery, The utilization of acupuncture analgesia varied from hospital to ...
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Acupuncture treatment for insomnia and acupuncture analgesia
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 1995Abstract Acupuncture is a simple and useful treatment for insomnia, with a success rate of around 90%. The acupuncture points applied vary depending on the doctor and on the case, but the usual points are Shenmen (HT7) and Anmien (extrapoint). The mechanism of this treatment has not been well elucidated.
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Research Advances on Acupuncture Analgesia
The American Journal of Chinese Medicine, 2020Pain is a widespread and complex symptom which causes serious emotional and social burdens to individuals and society. Most patients with pain rely heavily on over the counter (OTC) and prescription pain killers. However, there would be a number of issues that arise from the use of pain killers, in which safety and addiction are the most critical ...
Li, Qiao +5 more
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Hypno-Analgesia and Acupuncture Analgesia: a Neurophysiological Reality?
Neuropsychobiology, 2008The effects of hypnosis, acupuncture and analgesic drugs on the subjective experience of pain and on objective neurophysiological parameters were investigated. Pain was produced by brief electric stimuli on the wrist. Pain challengers were: hypnosis (induced by two different video tapes), acupuncture (at specific and unspecific loci, with and without ...
B, Saletu +5 more
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Caudate Nucleus and Acupuncture Analgesia
Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics Research: International Journal of Integrated Medicine, 1981Stimulation of the caudate nucleus in man was able to relieve intractable pain due to late malignancies, and the analgesia was similar in some aspects to that produced by acupuncture. Experiments performed on rabbits demonstrated that caudate stimulation raised pain threshold and enhanced electroacupuncture analgesia (EA), while caudate lesion resulted
L, He, S, Xu
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Acupuncture for Analgesia in Veterinary Medicine
Topics in Companion Animal Medicine, 2014Acupuncture for analgesia is growing rapidly in popularity with veterinarians and pet owners. This article summarizes the mechanisms of analgesia derived from acupuncture and reviews current literature on the topic. Areas covered include the local effects at area of needle insertion, systemic effects secondary to circulating neurotransmitters and ...
Lindsey M, Fry +3 more
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Central Neurotransmitters and Acupuncture Analgesia
The American Journal of Chinese Medicine, 1980The role played by central neurotransmitters in acupuncture analgesia was evaluated by correlating neurochemical changes in central nervous system with the acupuncture effect, as well as modification of the acupuncture effects by pharmacological manipulations of central neurotransmitters. The results of experimental studies which were performed mainly
J S, Han +5 more
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A psychophysical analysis of acupuncture analgesia
Pain, 1984A psychophysical analysis of acupuncture analgesia was carried out in which low back pain patients made visual analogue scale (VAS) responses both to their chronic pain and to different levels of experimental heat pain (5 sec exposures to 43-51 degrees C) before and after electroacupuncture.
D D, Price +3 more
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