Anesthesia and Analgesia, an official journal published by the International Anesthesia Research Society, also known as IARS, has recently concluded that the olden technique of Chinese acupuncture is nothing but effective when it comes to treating different types of pain. This conclusion was published in the May issue of this official journal putting in a new found trust in the practice. A lot of people had previously known that the practice of acupuncture could be used as alternative medicine for different kinds of treatment but there has always been a lot of skepticism around the issue. Many people were doubting whether this art of sticking needles into the skin at specific points really does the trick to alleviate various forms of ailments. Now they can be rest assured that it works after all the research that has gone into proving it true or false by the International anesthesia Research Society. The university of Munich was very crucial in the deriving of this conclusion that the practice of acupuncture really is an effective solution to ameliorating pain in the body. These researchers utilized quantitative sensory testing for this. They would use it to mark out the different changes in pain sensitivity in 24 different healthy volunteers when acupuncture was applied. They would put the very thin needles in specific points in the leg where there are pain receptors to see what changes would take place in the volunteers' pain thresholds. To their joy, when they applied acupuncture to the leg, the next thing that the researchers saw was a marked change in the pain thresholds. In some of the volunteers, the pain threshold increased by up to 50 percent after the application of acupuncture. The remarkable thing is that the improved threshold for pain was noticed in both the leg that had received acupuncture and the other side too which had not, the contra lateral leg that is. In conclusion, according to the researchers, this was well backed up proof that these results show the ancient practice of acupuncture is indeed effective towards easing pain in patients. "These results that we have found prove that contra lateral stimulation on the leg leads to a marked relief in pain to the patient," remarked leading author Dominik Irnich, M.D. "This goes to show that acupuncturists should try to needle the contra lateral leg or side if the affected side is too painful to be done with acupuncture or simply not accessible. This could be because the skin is gravely injured or covered in dressing." The research also showed that there are three effective types of acupuncture that could be used. These are: 1.Manual acupuncture 2.Needling by itself 3.Needling in combination with high frequency and or low frequency stimulation. Acupuncture is part of traditional Chinese medicine.
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