Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Electroacupuncture Helps With Chronic Stress in Laboratory Rats


 "In a laboratory study, researchers found that electroacupuncture was able to affect a key stress response in rats—by blocking a sympathetic pathway that is stimulated during chronic stress. Electroacupuncture (acupuncture combined with electrical stimulation) has been proposed as a complementary therapy in the treatment of chronic stress in people; however, the existing data on its effectiveness and how it works are unclear. This study, funded in part by NCCAM, was published in the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine."

Continue reading here...

No comments:

Post a Comment