By using the monitor brain, researchers from the University of Michigan proved that acupuncture technique that has long used the Chinese people is to influence the long-term ability of the brain to regulate pain.
The study appears in the Journal of NeuroImage it was mentioned that the techniques used acupuncture has been found by increasing the ability of Mu-opioids Receptors (MOR) in the brain and reduces the pain signals, which are specific to the glands cingulate, insula, caudate, thalamus and amygdala.
The experts see the same facts on drug use in the medical world, where the drugs painkillers like morphine, codeine and others were also works by binding to these receptors (MOR) in the brain and spinal cord.
"The ability to bind to these receptors can reduce pain," says Richard E. Harris, PhD, a researcher from Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, as reported by ScienceDaily, Wednesday (08/12/2009).
The study, followed by 20 female participants diagnosed with fibromyalgia is a chronic disease (chronic condition that causes pain, stiffness, and tenderness of the muscles, tendons, and joints-send). During the study lasted, they were not given drugs to relieve pain, but given acupuncture techniques.
Respondents then do a scan of Position Emission Tomography (PET) in their brains during the running of acupuncture treatment. Monitoring the brain continues to do until they feel the pain disappeared.
From there, researchers concluded that it has the effect of acupuncture techniques and ways of working with drugs like painkillers. "Interestingly, acupuncture treatment is not much different from clinical medicine," said Harris.
Techniques including acupuncture alternative medicine which does not use drugs, but it turns out the way it works is almost similar to medical treatment, so there's no medical reason for people to underestimate this acupuncture technique.
So, select the acupuncture or medical? It's all up to you.
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