Acupuncture Effect and Central Autonomic Regulation

Li, Qianqian; Shi, Guang‐Xia; Xu, Qian; Wang, Jing; Liu, Cun‐Zhi; Wang, Linpeng

doi:10.1155/2013/267959

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“…Although using a targeted postnatal intervention, we have recently demonstrated reversibility of the perinatal nicotine-induced lung phenotype [18]; however, short of the cessation of smoking during pregnancy (http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco), which is not always achievable, a more practical strategy would be to safely and proactively block perinatal nicotine-induced lung damage before it occurs. Clinical and animal studies have demonstrated that acupuncture modulates a variety of the body’s patho-physiological responses, including hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, immune function, energy metabolism, and microcirculation, potentially affecting the development of many organ systems including the respiratory tract [19–23]; however, whether acupuncture has a protective effect on the lung damage caused by perinatal nicotine exposure is not known. We hypothesized that by modulating key regulators of lung development, acupuncture blocks the development of the perinatal nicotine-induced lung phenotype.…”

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Effect of Maternal Electroacupuncture on Perinatal Nicotine Exposure-Induced Lung Phenotype in Offspring

Jiang

Zhao

Sakurai

et al. 2016

Lung

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Introduction Pregnant women exposed to tobacco smoke predispose the offspring to many adverse consequences including an altered lung development and function. There is no effective therapeutic intervention to block the effects of smoke exposure on the developing lung. Clinical and animal studies demonstrate that acupuncture can modulate a variety of pathophysiological processes, including those involving the respiratory system; however, whether acupuncture affects the lung damage caused by perinatal smoke exposure is not known. Methods To determine the effect of acupuncture on perinatal nicotine exposure on the developing lung, pregnant rat dams were administered (1) Saline; (2) Nicotine; or (3) Nicotine + electroacupuncture (EA). Nicotine was administered (1 mg/kg subcutaneously) once a day and EA was applied to both “Zusanli” (ST 36) points. Both interventions were administered from gestational day 6 to postnatal day 21 (PND21), following which pups were sacrificed. Lungs, blood and brain were collected to examine the markers of lung injury, repair and hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis. Results Concomitant EA application blocked nicotine-induced changes in lung morphology, lung Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor γ and Wingless-int signaling, two key lung developmental signaling pathways, hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis (hypothalamic corticotropic releasing hormone and lung glucocorticoid receptor levels), and plasma β-endorphin levels. Conclusions Electroacupuncture blocks the nicotine-induced changes in lung developmental signaling pathways and the resultant myogenic lung phenotype, known to be present in the affected offspring. We conclude that EA is a promising novel intervention against the smoke exposed lung damage to the developing lung.

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Effect of Maternal Electroacupuncture on Perinatal Nicotine Exposure-Induced Lung Phenotype in Offspring

Jiang

Zhao

Sakurai

et al. 2016

Lung

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“…Then opioids regulate also ANS: balancing it and leading to wellbeing condition, as Li Qian [11] studied in 2013…”

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Reward Ideas and Strategies

Dragoni¹

2016

IJCAM

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In this article we focus on reward system. Reward system can be considered the center of our body-mind equilibrium: we have medial reward, leading life, reproduction, needs, and willings; if this is not adequatly satisfied, dopamine is converted by dopa-beta-hydroxilase into catecolamines, and habenula regulates the balance so that lateral reward risk to become prevalent, with activation of HPA axis (hypothalamus-pituitary gland-adrenal glands), with all the negative effects typical of most diffused world diseases.Reward can be somehow identified with the TCM three treasures: qi (energy), shen (psyche = ψυχή = jing (the reproductive essence, created thanks to the ministerial fire of ming men, an extraordinary kidney function).Reward can synthetized as the summa of our needs: so the secret for a happy life, as 5000 years ago revealed Ayurveda Tradition and 3000 years ago Traditional Chinese Medicine followed, is a correct lifestyle... it mainly means: following our needs in a balanced way. OpinionDora and Fatih, seeing that Occidental Medicine tends to prefer practical observations than traditional knowledges (based also on medicine and health practise), taking inspiration by works by Esch and Stefano,... we created a REWARD STRATEGY symbol that contains all the pillars for a good lifestyle: a. Diet: for example mediterrenean diet, knowing that nowadays, as in oriental health systems, quality is becoming important as quality b. Fitness: 1 hour fitness per day is suggested (average) c. Mind: have a relaxed mind (alpha waves too) is basis for wellbeing d. Love life: love life is a genetical need, that's why affective life is a human right, and of course in reward view it's the best way to make medial reward prevale, and for TCM it's the essential solution to preserve jing, the vital essence e. Sleep: 7-8 hours per night f. Extra-rewards: if, for external reasons, despite all this… there risk to be disarmonies, we can recur to CAM for example, since complementary and alternative medicines are the only kind of medicine improving medial reward, that means that they act on BEN the root solving also the BIAO the manifestation (the target for Occidental Medicine). (Figure 1)Of course we can talk also about the anti-reward, what we can call a micro-damage: if for any external reason reward is not guaranteed, this impact in stochastic way on our wellness (or even deterministic).Another clue related to reward is synchronization: this is typical and basis for couple love, since love life makes so that two persons (brains, bodies-minds, lives) become synchronized (their EEG become similar), and this is indeed related to a positive medial reward function, that's why privacy is not only a theoretical rule but also a real need… we have to choose the best "synchronizations" we can in order to guarantee to us wellbeing day by day.We can say that reward is need, is right and is duty too, since health is a duty for us, for our partner, for families and for world society too, to maintain equlibria inside and outside as well: ...

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“…Additionally, effects have been described related to touch and pressure to the skin [43][44][45][46], physiological effects of shallow insertion needling [47][48][49][50][51], non-inserted needling [44,52], deeper needling with varying forms of manipulation [14,42] including electrical stimulation of the needles [40,42,53,54]. Other studies demonstrate that acupuncture can also create effects due to modulation of the somato-sensory system [55], autonomic nervous system [51,[56][57][58], and microcirculatory [48,59], antiinflammatory [60,61] and immunological effects [62][63][64]. It is believed that moxibustion may also stimulate a wide spectrum of physiological changes including effects on the immune system and the blood [4].…”

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Acupuncture: How Might the Mechanisms of Treatment Have Contributed to the Diagnosis of “Patterns” and Pattern-based Treatments – Speculations on the Evolution of Acupuncture as a Therapy. Implications for Researchers

Birch

2018

J Acupunct Res

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Acupuncture is a complex intervention that manifests varied theories, treatment methods, diagnostic methods and diagnostic patterns. Traditionally based systems of acupuncture (TBSAs) often have their own diagnostic approaches and patterns. Despite the wide variety that can be found amongst TBSAs, is it possible that they share a common background in clinical observation and practice? Research has shown that multiple physiological pathways and mechanisms can be triggered by different acupuncture techniques and methods. It is highly likely that clinicians will have observed some of the effects of these responses and used those observations as feedback to help construct the patterns of diagnosis and their associated treatments. This review briefly examines this possibility. Pattern identification will have developed out of a complex interaction of factors that include; theories current at the time of their development, historical theories, personal choices and beliefs, training, practice methods, clinical observations and the natural feedback that comes from observing how things change once the treatment is applied. Researchers investigating TBSAs and pattern identification need to be more explicit about the systems they have investigated in order to understand the biological basis of pattern identification and their treatments.

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Acupuncture Effect and Central Autonomic Regulation

Cited by 78 publications

References 76 publications

Effect of Maternal Electroacupuncture on Perinatal Nicotine Exposure-Induced Lung Phenotype in Offspring

Effect of Maternal Electroacupuncture on Perinatal Nicotine Exposure-Induced Lung Phenotype in Offspring

Reward Ideas and Strategies

Acupuncture: How Might the Mechanisms of Treatment Have Contributed to the Diagnosis of “Patterns” and Pattern-based Treatments – Speculations on the Evolution of Acupuncture as a Therapy. Implications for Researchers

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