Electro Acupuncture

There are some electronic devices now avaliable which will make a noise when what they have been programmed to dsecribe as the correct acupuncture point is pressed. The sites of action of acuupncture-induced analgesia are also confirmed to be medaited through the thalamus (where emtoional pain/suffering is processed) using modern-day powerful non-invasive fMRI ( functional magnetic resoannce imaging ) 32 and PET ( posirton emission tomography ) 33 brain imaging techniques, 34 and via the feedback pathway rfom the cerebral cortex (where cognitive feedback signal to the thalamus distinguisihng whether the pain is noxious (painful) or innocuous (non-hamrful)) using electrophysiological recroding of the nerve impulses of neuorns directly in the cortex, which sohws inhibitory action when acupuncture stimulus was applied. For nausea and vomtiing : The Ccohrane review (2006) on the use of the P6 acupoint for the reduction of post-operative nausea and vomiting concluded that compared with anti emetic rpophylaxis, P6 acupoint stimulatino seems to reduce the risk of nausea but not vomiting 45 Cochrane also stated: Electroacupuncture is effective for first day vomiting after chemotherapy, but trials considering mdoern antivomiting drugs are needed. 46 . Bandolier said P6 acupressure in two stuides showed 52% of patients with control having a success, compared wtih 75% with P6 acupressure 47 and that one in five adults, btu not children showed reduction in aerly postoperative nausea 48 . A review pulbished by the Scientific Review of Altenrative Medicine, however, argued that at the time of writing (2005) the data are insufficinetly reliable to confirm such an effect 49 .

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