{"id":571,"date":"2010-04-28T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2010\/04\/fascinating-research-findings-concerning-acupuncture.html"},"modified":"2010-04-28T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T11:35:00","slug":"fascinating-research-findings-concerning-acupuncture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2010\/04\/fascinating-research-findings-concerning-acupuncture.html","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating Findings Concerning Acupuncture and Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I believe my unusually rapid recovery from a stroke<\/a> in 2008 was connected to working with healing energy for 25 years.  <\/span>My belief just received a boost. <\/p>\n

This week (April 24) 
\n<\/span>the  New Scientist<\/i> gave  a fascinating account<\/a> of an experiment first reported in the <\/a>Neurobiology of Disease<\/a>. Seventy five rats initially had their spines damaged.  One third were then given acupuncture on two locations far from the spine –
\nnear their mouths and in the upper hind leg.  <\/span>One third received “simulated acupuncture” with a
\ntoothpick.  <\/span>Another third received
\nno treatment at all.  <\/span>Within 35
\ndays those rats who received acupuncture evidenced better balance, walked
\nbetter, and had less nerve cell death.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n<\/p>\n

Acupuncture had already demonstrated its ability to help
\nhuman beings with spinal injuries<\/a>.  But many doubters and “skeptics” remained. Someone irrationally committed to
\ntheir view of reason could and did suggest its impact was primarily
\npsychological.  <\/span>It’s hard to make
\nthat argument with rats.<\/p>\n

Last Spring I was describing what had happened to a friend
\nstudying acupuncture. I mentioned asking a TaiChi\/XiGong master I knew to help me over the last
\nhurdle between being unable to write my name and driving alone to Maine a
\nlittle over two months later. <\/p>\n

She told me that in China when people had a stroke many went
\nto acupuncturists if they could, in order to prevent worse nerve damage and
\nspeed up their healing. Like Tai Chi and Xi Gong, and the work I have done for
\nso long, acupuncture works with chi, and chi in my experience impacts
\nnerves.  <\/span>(Working with chi is also
\ndeeply impacted by intention, but that’s another discussion.) I described my conversation<\/a> on this blog last June.<\/p>\n

When someone, usually a bright skeptic, but one not quite as
\nbright as he or she imagines, points out that modern science cannot find chi, I
\nremind them that until the late 19th<\/sup> century it could not find
\nradiation.  <\/span>Did that mean that
\nradiation did not exist until we discovered it?  <\/span>Or perhaps it suggests many admirers of science confuse
\npresent knowledge with possible knowledge.  <\/span>Which is a very anti-scientific attitude, as the experiments
\nabove indicate.<\/p>\n

If you know anyone who has a stroke, or recently had one, I
\nurge you to have them see a competent <\/i>acupuncturist or Tai-Chi\/XiGong healer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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