TY - BOOK ID - 8360491 TI - Acupuncture therapy for neurological diseases : a neurobiological view PY - 2010 SN - 3642108555 9786612983290 3642108571 1282983296 PB - Beijing : Tsinghua University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Acupuncture. KW - Medicine, Chinese. KW - Nervous system -- Acupuncture. KW - Nervous systems -- Diseases -- Treatment. KW - Nervous system KW - Acupuncture KW - Diseases KW - Complementary Therapies KW - Acupuncture Therapy KW - Nervous System Diseases KW - Therapeutics KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Medicine KW - Neurology KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Treatment. KW - Medicine. KW - Neurosciences. KW - Complementary medicine. KW - Neurobiology. KW - Medicine & Public Health. KW - Complementary & Alternative Medicine. KW - Counterirritation KW - Energy medicine KW - Organs (Anatomy) KW - Neurosciences KW - Alternative medicine. KW - Neural sciences KW - Neurological sciences KW - Neuroscience KW - Medical sciences KW - Complementary medicine KW - Healing systems KW - Systems, Healing KW - Systems, Therapeutic KW - Therapeutic systems KW - Integrative medicine UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8360491 AB - Acupuncture therapy has been practiced in China and other Asian countries for more than two thousand years. Modern clinical research has confirmed the impressive therapeutic effect of acupuncture on numerous human ailments, such as controlling pain, nausea, and vomiting. However, the biological mechanisms of acupuncture are still under debate. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the mechanism of acupuncture therapy is explained by a meridian model. According to this model, acupuncture is believed to treat the diseased organs by modulating two conditions known as Yin and Yang, which represent all the opposite principles that people find in the universe, both inside and outside the human body. Yin and Yang complement each other, and are subjected to changes between each other. The balance of Yin and Yang is thought to be maintained by Qi, an energy substance flowing constantly through the meridian, a network connecting all the organs of the body. The illness, according to this theory, is the temporary dominance of one principle over the other, owing to the blockade of the Qi from flowing through the meridian under certain circumstance. The axiom of “No stagnation, No pain” in TCM summarizes this concept. Thus, the goal of acupuncture treatment is to restore the balance of Yin and Yang conditions in the diseased organ(s). This theory has been considered to be useful to guide this ancient therapy, such as carrying out diagnosis, deciding on the principle, and selecting the acupoints. ER -