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Acupuncture for Anxiety

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310-444-6212. This article is from Psychology Today

Different approaches have beneficial effects.

Posted Oct 30, 2018

Animal and human studies suggest that the beneficial effects of acupuncture on health, including mental and emotional functioning, are related to different mechanisms of action, including […]

November 6th, 2018|

Acupuncture MRI Discovery For Sciatica Relief

Thank you to HealthCMI for this interesting article.

Acupuncture alleviates sciatica and MRIs reveal that acupuncture causes important pain relief related changes in brain functional connectivity. Affiliated Huashan Hospital of Fudan University researchers gathered objective and subjective data in a controlled clinical trial consisting of patients suffering from sciatica. Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) scores indicate that acupuncture produces significant decreases in both pain intensity levels and frequency of pain. Additionally, […]

October 15th, 2018|

How CBD has become the USA’s coolest food and drink ingredient

(CNN) — The latest “it” ingredient to hit menus is CBD, short for cannabidiol, one of over 60 cannabinoids found in the cannabis sativa plant (more commonly known as marijuana).
Unlike THC, the most well-known cannabinoid, CBD has no psychoactive effects. So, while it won’t get you high, its reported therapeutic properties have driven CBD sales and popularity in the wellness industry.
While researchers […]
October 8th, 2018|

Acupuncture Prevents Heart Damage Confirmed

From Health CMI:

Acupuncture is effective for the prevention of acute myocardial ischemia (AMI), a condition causing damage to the heart from reduced cardiac blood flow and oxygen deprivation. Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine researchers conclude that acupuncture applied to acupoints Shenmen (HT7) and Tongli (HT5) protects myocardial cells from ischemic injuries. In a laboratory experiment, the university researchers have proven that acupuncture prevents myocardial ischemia by regulating pro-inflammatory […]

September 10th, 2018|

Study shows benefits of eye-specific acupuncture in patients with glaucoma

Eye-specific acupuncture treatment had beneficial short-term effects on ocular blood flow in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma.

The study was conducted in 56 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) treated with topical antiglaucoma medication. Patients were randomized into one eye-specific acupuncture treatment group and one eye-unspecific acupuncture treatment of 28 patients each.

Acupuncture treatment was […]
September 4th, 2018|

Acupuncture Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Relief Confirmed!

Researchers find acupuncture effective for the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), a local entrapment neuropathy affecting the wrist and hand that causes pain, numbness, and dysfunction. The research team documents acupuncture’s beneficial influence on the morphology of the median nerve and improvement of clinical symptoms.

According to researchers conducting the investigation, “while previous studies investigated the effect of acupuncture on clinical symptoms and electromyographic studies, to the best of […]

August 30th, 2018|
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