Different Releasing Effects of Traditional Manual Acupuncture and Electro-Acupuncture on Proopiocortin-Related Peptides

Nappi, Giuseppe; Facchinetti, Fabio; Legnante, Guido; Parrini, D; Petraglia, F.; Savoldi, F; Genazzani, Ar

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“…The importance of metics and corticosteroids affect adenylcythis issue cannot be too highly stressed since it clase, cyclic AMP, and glucose metabolism, as has been recently demonstrated, in an elegant does acupuncture. Acupuncture has also been series of studies by Reilly and his colleagues shown to stimulate Cortisol release and raise (Reilly and Taylor 1993) in Scotland using their serum Cortisol levels (Lane and Lane 1991; Kim overall progress interactive charts (OPICS) in a 1981; Fung et al, 1986;Lee and Sun 1984; triple-blinded study of homeopathy in asthma, Nappi et al, 1982). Concomitant oral and aerothat knowledge of trial design alone may be sol corticosteroid treatment could therefore sufficient to influence outcome.…”

Section: Alteration Of Spirometry During An Acute ^mentioning

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A Critical Analysis of Acupuncture in Pulmonary Disease: Efficacy and Safety of the Acupuncture Needle

Jobst¹

1995

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

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Criteria for therapeutic efficacy and safety include significant amelioration of symptoms and, ideally, cure (i.e., patients' belief in effective improvement of symptoms and quality of life, durable impact on symptoms, verifiable subjective and objective changes); improved patient management (e.g., diminishing, or ceasing medication, physiotherapy, and other interventions); safety for patient and practitioner and an acceptable side effect profile; cost-effectiveness of the therapy in practice and to teach to others. There is evidence that in bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, and chronic disabling breathlessness the use of acupuncture fulfills these to varying degrees. It can facilitate reducing pharmacologic medication and is safe, suggesting that acupuncture as an adjuvant in the treatment of respiratory disease might be safer than prolonged pharmaceutical maintenance therapy alone. Its cost-effectiveness has yet to be adequately researched. Twenty-one papers in English were obtained and 16 were further evaluated; eight were double-blind, five single-blind, and three unblinded. The remaining five, and most of the Chinese literature, were excluded on account of their poor quality. Acupuncture was effective in four of eight of the double-blind, three of five single-blind, and three of three unblinded studies (i.e., 10 of 16 [62.5%] overall). A previously unreported confounding variable was identified and concerned the designation of sham points. Most sham points were believed to be inactive but, according to traditional Chinese principles, many are active in pulmonary disease. Reappraised accordingly, the unequivocally positive studies were summed with those in which "real" and "sham" acupuncture were not significantly different but in which the combined effect of all acupuncture (i.e., real + sham) on breathlessness was significantly different from baseline. This yielded 13 of 16 (81%) [corrected] studies in which acupuncture led to significant improvement. In most studies, current pharmacologic treatment had a greater effect than acupuncture alone. However, in the 11 studies in which it was evaluated, medication could be significantly reduced by acupuncture in 10 (91%). Twenty-three of the 320 patients in the 16 studies (7%) reported minimal side effects, none requiring intervention. Current published evidence reveals no reason to withhold acupuncture as a safe and potentially effective treatment in patients with bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease. Further, more appropriately designed studies are urgently required. This would be facilitated in the United States by licensing the acupuncture needle as a therapeutic agent and might lead to important new insights and therapeutic opportunities.

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Section: Alteration Of Spirometry During An Acute ^mentioning

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A Critical Analysis of Acupuncture in Pulmonary Disease: Efficacy and Safety of the Acupuncture Needle

Jobst¹

1995

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

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“…1999) and plasma endorphin concentration in response to acupuncture (Liao et al. 1980; Nappi et al. 1982; Bossut et al.…”

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“…Pomeranz (1978) showed that b endorphin and serotonin are involved in the humoral response mediated by EA, producing long-term analgesia in rats, even after interruption of the electrical stimulation of acupoints. Some studies have demonstrated increased serotonergic activity (Cheng & Pomeranz 1981;Cui et al 1999) and plasma endorphin concentration in response to acupuncture (Liao et al 1980;Nappi et al 1982;Bossut et al 1983), because of either the increased production or the reduced reuptake and/or elimination of these hormones.…”

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Electroacupuncture analgesia in dogs: is there a difference between uni- and bi-lateral stimulation?

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Clark³

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Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia

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“…This has to represent a significant technological breakthrough, and one can only hope that this, and other early work using nuclear medicine imaging technology, will help to further reveal the substrates of clinical efficacy and physiological mechanism (de Vernejoul et al, 1991;Kovacs et al, 1991Kovacs et al, ,1993Scott, 1991). Somewhat aweinspiring is the likelihood that it will emerge that the frequency of stimulation, whether manually using needle insertion, or electrically using point stimulators, will alter the profile of neurochemical secretion (Capel et al, 1982;Nappi et al, 1982).…”

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Towards the New Dawn for Acupuncture Research: An Introduction to the Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Physiology of Acupuncture

Jobst¹

1997

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

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Different Releasing Effects of Traditional Manual Acupuncture and Electro-Acupuncture on Proopiocortin-Related Peptides

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A Critical Analysis of Acupuncture in Pulmonary Disease: Efficacy and Safety of the Acupuncture Needle

A Critical Analysis of Acupuncture in Pulmonary Disease: Efficacy and Safety of the Acupuncture Needle

Electroacupuncture analgesia in dogs: is there a difference between uni- and bi-lateral stimulation?

Towards the New Dawn for Acupuncture Research: An Introduction to the Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Physiology of Acupuncture

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