Title	Clinical Acupuncture [electronic resource] : Scientific Basis / edited by Gabriel Stux, Richard Hammerschlag
Imprint	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56732-2
Descript	X, 227 p. online resource

There is a large increase in interest in acupuncture by health care consumers. The three main reasons for this are medical effectiveness, cost effectiveness and the credibility that clinical trials and physiological research have provided. Acupuncture is rapidly moving out of the arena of "alternative" medicine, in large part again because it is grounded more firmly than other alternative treatments in research. The book provides the reader with the up-to-date information on the clinical bases of acupuncture

1 Acupuncture Analgesia - Basic Research -- 2 Mechanisms of Acupuncture Analgesia Produced by-Low Frequency Electrical Stimulation of Acupuncture Points -- 3 Opioid and Antiopioid Peptides: A Model of Yin-Yang Balance in Acupuncture Mechanisms of Pain Modulation -- 4 The Past, Present, and Future of Meridian System Research -- 5 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain in the Investigation of Acupuncture -- 6 Neurophysiological Basis of Auricular Acupuncture -- 7 Assessing Clinical Efficacy of Acupuncture: What Has Been Learned from Systematic Reviews of Acupuncture? -- 8 An Overview of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Stroke, Addiction, and Other Health Problems -- 9 Beyond Numbers: Qualitative Research Methods for Oriental Medicine -- 10 Proposed Standards of Acupuncture Treatment for Clinical Studies -- 11 Assessing Clinical Efficacy of Acupuncture: Considerations for Designing Future Acupuncture Trials -- 12 Future Directions for Research on the Physiology of Acupuncture