katz@beesvax.UUCP (08/03/83)
i have an appointment later this month to undergo an acupuncture treatment. has anyone had such a treatment, for any sympton, or know of someone who has?
barbaral@tekig1.UUCP (08/04/83)
Members of my family, including myself, have had acup. for various things, among those, hayfever, which helped a lot. My mom used to be a receptionist for an acupuncturist. This acupuncturist had trained many years in Taiwan. Unfortunately, many acupuncturists today think they are experts after a year or two of training. Quite a few of the clients my mom made appointments for were people who had gotten screwed up by acupuncturists who didn't know what they were doing, and came to my mom's acupuncturist to un-do the harm that the others did. So, beware, there are a lot of quacks out there.
hipkiss@proper.UUCP (Ron Hipkiss) (06/17/84)
As far as Acupuncture goes, some interesting studies have been done
in the past few years...I'm looking thru my notes to find the source, but anyway
i read that patients given opiate blocking drugs (such as Naloxone) feel the
pain return, while under acupuncture treatment, a strong suggestion that
acupuncture works by way of stimulating the release of Endorphins and/or
Enkephalins...the body's natural opiates, some of them hundreds of times more
powerful than Morphine and Heroin.
If this is true, then I think that is quite likely that acupuncture
does indeed work, as anything that liberates these powerful endogenous drugs
would be an effective technique indeed...
If I'm not mistaken, I read it in SCIENCE NEWS. Good luck!
Donald Hipkiss
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