ACUPUNCTURE'S PAIN RELIEF EQUAL TO PAINKILLING DRUGS
www.nzherald.co.nz From Prescott Singer Group,
March 04, 2007
www.nzherald.co.nz From Prescott Singer Group,
March 04, 2007
A team of scientists from two British universities carried out brain scans on patients while they underwent Acupuncture treatment. The scans showed differences in the brain's response to acupuncture needles compared with tests using dummy needles that did not puncture the skin.
Doctors found that the part of the brain that manages pain and the nervous system showed pain relief levels of as much as 15%.
Dr.George Lewith, from the University of Southhampton's Complementary Medicine Research Unit, said the improvement is "exactly the same size of effect you would get from real painkillers for chronic pain. The evidence we now have is that acupuncture works very well on pain."