Acupuncture Mechanisms: Anesthesia, Analgesia and Protection on Organ Functions
Acupuncture, as a healing art in traditional Chinese medicine, has been widely used to treat various diseases. In the history of acupuncture anesthesia, in the past decades, mechanisms of acupuncture analgesia has been widely investigated, and in recent ...
Jing Wang, You Wan
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Information Models of Acupuncture Analgesia and Meridian Channels
Acupuncture and meridian channels have been major components of Chinese and Eastern Asian medicine—especially for analgesia—for over 2000 years. In recent decades, electroacupuncture (EA) analgesia has been applied clinically and experimentally. However,
Chang Hua Zou, Kang Cheng
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P2X receptors and acupuncture analgesia
Purinergic signaling has recently been suggested to constitute the cellular mechanism underlying acupuncture-induced analgesia (AA). By extending the original hypothesis on endogenous opioids being released during AA, Geoffrey Burnstock and Maiken Nedergaard supplied evidence for the involvement of purinoceptors (P2 and P1/A1 receptors) in the ...
Yong Tang +2 more
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Bibliometric Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies on Acupuncture Analgesia Over the Past 20 Years [PDF]
Liuyang Huang, Guixing Xu, Hao Tian
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Optimizing Postoperative Analgesia After Perianal Abscess Surgery Using Ultrasound-Guided Pudendal Nerve Block Combined with Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture: A Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
Cui Zhang,1,2,* Junyi Yang,1,2,* Linhua Feng,1,2 Xizhong Zhao,1,2 Ping Tang1,2 1Department of Anorectal Surgery, Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sichuan Academy of Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China ...
Zhang C, Yang J, Feng L, Zhao X, Tang P
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The possibility of abolishing pain during operations by needling acupuncture points was detected in China 20 years ago. During the last years the Western World showed great interest in this method, which was tested in a great number of surgical operations. Acupuncture was successful, especially when it was introduced by a short conventional anesthesia.
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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain
Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman +4 more
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Acupuncture analgesia: an experimental investigation. [PDF]
A study was designed to establish whether acupuncture has any analgesic properties beyond those of suggestion. In three one-hour experimental sessions the increases in detection thresholds and tolerances for thermal pain at six body locations on 12 subjects were compared.
D, Stewart, J, Thomson, I, Oswald
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Application of acupuncture analgesia in pediatric urinary genital inguinal surgery [PDF]
Introduction: acupuncture analgesia produces mechanical or electrical stimulation in different points of the body, increasing the pain threshold and helping the patient to support different types of surgical intervention.
Roberto Caveda Carrasco +3 more
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Acupuncture Analgesia in Total Thyroidectomy for Graves’ Disease: A Case Report
This study included a 42-year-old female farmer with a 2-year history of Graves’ disease who visited the hospital for a total thyroidectomy for her grade III goiter based on World Health Organization classification. Besides Hegu (LI4) and Neiguan (PC6)
Dong Phuong Tran
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