W ASHINGTON DC - After decades of largely be repelled by the American medical establishment, acupuncture appears to be gaining some respectability. Last year, the Food and Drug Administration took the label off of acupuncture needles "experimental" as medical devices. And today, a group of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) concluded that acupuncture is an effective treatment for nausea and some forms of pain.
About 1 million people get stuck in the United States each year, mostly for pain relief, the panel said. Some Western researchers say acupuncture triggers the production of many chemicals, including endorphins analgesics, benzodiazepines endogenous painkillers and serotonin with mood lifting. "The challenge in studying acupuncture is to integrate the theory of Chinese medicine in the classic model of Western biomedical research," says the president of the committee David Ramsay, president of the University of Maryland.
The conference, sponsored by the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM), reviewed research on a host of ailments: nausea and ovulatory problems to paralysis and drug abuse. Although research that most acupuncture studies are lacking for various reasons such as covering too few subjects or lack of control, the panel found "clear evidence" that the acupuncture needle can relieve nausea of operations and chemotherapy, and perhaps morning sickness. They also found "evidence of effectiveness" for postoperative dental pain, and "reasonable studies" showing the pain for other conditions
to penetrate deeper into the mystique of acupuncture, the panel called for more research. - the music to ears of OAM, who sponsored $ 2 million for research on acupuncture in the last 5 years. especially gray areas, the Panel noted include discrimination "reality" from acupuncture points "dummy" for research purposes.
But experts are not invited to address the panel say that there is less mystery than meets the eye. Longtime acupuncture practitioner George Ulett, psychiatrist and neurologist at the Institute of Mental Health of Missouri in St. Louis, said you can forget the Yin and Yang: Electrical stimulation - either with needles or conductive pads - is "a very simple technique" to fan the hormones that affect the nerves.
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