Comments on: Acupuncture Research Merry-Go-Round http://blog.myacudoc.com/2009/01/27/acupuncture-research-merry-go-round/ Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine in Salem, MA Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:03:07 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Justin Ban http://blog.myacudoc.com/2009/01/27/acupuncture-research-merry-go-round/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Justin Ban Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:22:14 +0000 http://blog.myacudoc.com/?p=111#comment-115 Hi Norm, Great blog! This research upset me greatly. I guess it touched a nerve. I couldn't find a way to disprove the studies findings. Not just sham points but also the lack of insertion patients reported similar results. This type of study gets lots of traction in the scientific community. I want evidence to refute this conclusion. Any suggestions? Justin Hi Norm, Great blog! This research upset me greatly. I guess it touched a nerve. I couldn’t find a way to disprove the studies findings. Not just sham points but also the lack of insertion patients reported similar results. This type of study gets lots of traction in the scientific community. I want evidence to refute this conclusion. Any suggestions?
Justin

]]> By: Bonnie http://blog.myacudoc.com/2009/01/27/acupuncture-research-merry-go-round/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Bonnie Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:02:45 +0000 http://blog.myacudoc.com/?p=111#comment-85 One issue that came up when we would discuss research like this in school was the huge impact of intent. If the practitioner intends to help the patient even without the correct points you might get some positive effect. Similarly if you have a practitioner who doesn't care, even the perfect treatment may have minimal help. Additionally headaches have so many causes and so many are keyed to the lifestyles we lead (poor food, food that doesn't agree with us, stress, lack of rest, lack of fluids, poor breathing...) that acupuncture can't really overcome ALL the negatives that people are doing to their bodies. Acupuncture works on a level we can't really measure at this point and until we can do that, it will elude the "scientific method". Perhaps physicists should study acupuncture rather than biologists--after all physicists understand the nature of energy/matter far better than the average research biologist or bio-chemist! One issue that came up when we would discuss research like this in school was the huge impact of intent. If the practitioner intends to help the patient even without the correct points you might get some positive effect. Similarly if you have a practitioner who doesn’t care, even the perfect treatment may have minimal help.

Additionally headaches have so many causes and so many are keyed to the lifestyles we lead (poor food, food that doesn’t agree with us, stress, lack of rest, lack of fluids, poor breathing…) that acupuncture can’t really overcome ALL the negatives that people are doing to their bodies.

Acupuncture works on a level we can’t really measure at this point and until we can do that, it will elude the “scientific method”. Perhaps physicists should study acupuncture rather than biologists–after all physicists understand the nature of energy/matter far better than the average research biologist or bio-chemist!

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