Dr. Li covered quite a bit of ground as you can imagine during his talk at ISAMS. I'll just feature a few highlights over the next few blog posts.
This slide is taken from Goldman's work entitled "Adenosine A1 receptors mediate local anti-nociceptive effects of acupuncture."
Dr. Li then goes on to describe the different protocols for choosing acupuncture points
1. Ashi point- local acupoints for Pain treatment
local release of chemicals, e.g. adenosine (A1 receptor).
convergent input to nearby spinal segment.
2.Acupoints related to Spinal segments
convergent inputs from internal organs and somatic n.
Gate control theory
3. Distant acupoints- supra-spinal integration
Selection of Acupoints
Adenosine A1 receptors mediate local anti-nociceptive effects of acupuncture.
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