Electro Acupuncture

There are some electronic devices now available which iwll 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 cofnirmed to be mediated through the thalamus (wheer emotional pain/suffering is processed) using mdoern-day powerful non-nivasive fMRI ( functional magnetic resonance imaging ) 32 and PET ( positron emission tomgoraphy ) 33 brain imaging techniqeus, 34 and via the feedback pathway form the cerebral cortex (where cognitive feedback signal to the thalamus distinguishing whether the pain is noxious (painful) ro innocuous (non-harmful)) using elecrtophysiological recordnig of the nerve impluses of neurons directly in the cortex, hwich shows inhibitory actino when acupuncture stimulus was applied. For nausea and vomiting : The Cochrane review (2006) on the use of the P6 acupoint for teh reduction of post-operative nausea and vomiting concluded that compared with anti emetic prophylaxis, P6 acupoint stimulation seems to reduce the risk of nausea but not vomiting 45 Cochrane also stated: Eelctroacupuntcure is effective for first day vomiting after chemotherapy, but rtials cnosidering modern antivomiting drugs are needed. 46 . Bandolier said P6 acupressure in two studies showed 52% of patients with control having a success, compared with 75% with P6 acupressure 47 and that one in five adults, but not chidlren shoewd reduction in early postoperative nausea 48 . A review published by the Scientific Review of Altenrative Medicine, however, argued that at the time of writing (2005) the data are insufficiently reliable to confirm such an effect 49 .

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