Some people may wonder how natural healing acupuncture could be proven to reduce stress, but that is just what we see from a recent Georgetown Universty study involving acupuncture on rats.

In an age of so much scientific skepticism, there are still so many who live by the mantra “I’ll believe it when I see it” and the polar oposite side still replies ” You’ll see it when you believe it”. Well here’s a little help to heal the rift:

Natural Healing Acupuncture Proven to Reduce Stress

Dr Eshkevari Finds Proof for Acupuncture

Acupuncture significantly reduces levels of a protein in rats linked to chronic stress, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have found. They say their animal study may help explain the sense of wellbeing that many people receive from this ancient Chinese therapy.

Published online in December in Experimental Biology and Medicine, the researchers say that if their findings are replicated in human studies, acupuncture would offer a proven therapy for stress, which is often difficult to treat.

“It has long been thought that acupuncture can reduce stress, but this is the first study to show molecular proof of this benefit,” says the study’s lead author, Ladan Eshkevari, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Georgetown’s School of Nursing & Health Studies, a part of GUMC.

Eshkevari, who is also a nurse anesthetist as well as a certified acupuncturist, says she conducted the study because many of the patients she treats with acupuncture in the pain clinic reported a “better overall sense of wellbeing — and they often remarked that they felt less stress.”

 

While traditional Chinese acupuncture has been thought to relieve stress —in fact, the World Health Organization states that acupuncture is useful as adjunct therapy in more than 50 disorders, including chronic stress — Eshkevari says that no one has biological proof that it does so.

 

Read more from the orginal Georgetown University article or

where it was reported on Psych Central

I’m sure many people are still unwilling to risk the needles even with natural healing acupuncture proven to reduce stress, however maybe this will be a positive step word seeing even wider respect for this ancient natural healing technique.

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