More to support the power of Acupuncture

Even though Acupuncture has withstood the test of time providing  centuries of people with relief there are always skeptics. Many skeptics challenge the actual success of the methodology behind Acupuncture and credit the "success stories" to the positive thoughts and hopeful thinking of the  participants rather than the acupuncture itself.  A study from Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University in Sweden decided the challenge the idea  whether acupuncture actually works or is it all in the minds of the patients.

The study took 215 acupuncture patients suffering with nausea and spilt then into groups without their knowledge to produce  sample groups to compare against one another. 109 patients were blindly assigned to either traditional (manually performed) or simulated acupuncture. The remaining group of 106 were given acupuncture in the form of blunt telescopic placebo needles that barely touch the skin. The 215 patients progress was compared against another group of 65 individual's suffering with the same symptoms of nausea who have not received any form of acupuncture treatment.

The outcome supported the authenticity of acupuncture's ancient abilities.  Those patients who received either traditional or stimulated acupuncture saw a dramatic improvement in their nausea whereas those who received acupuncture treatment in the form of telescopic placebo needles saw no significant change in their symptoms. 

Interestingly enough the type of accurate acupuncture administered did not affect the results. Whether the needles where inserted manually or automatically the results appear the same. This result could provide an incentive to develop more tools that can produce the desired results of traditional acupuncture in the future to make acupuncture available  to more people.

When people have significant progress it is important to recognize the source of that improvement. Acupuncture has influenced  countless people's lives for the greater good and this study helped to add more credibility to the power of the practice of acupuncture.