Electric needles may help relieve inflammation throughout the body.

Neuroscientistes in china and the United States have found that weak electrical stimulation of nerves may help treat inflammatory reactions in the system.
in a study published August 12 in the journal Neuron, a journal of Cell Press, researchers further revealed the neuroanatomy behind acupuncture, a traditional Traditional Chinese medicine.
, author of the paper and a professor at Harvard Medical School, has been working on the neural mechanisms behind pain for many years.
western medicine to treat pain mostly by blocking neural path paths to suppress pain.
but we have numerous neural paths, each of which can be activated by a very large number of factors.
so over the years, despite all the breakthroughs and achievements we've had in animal experiments, there have been no new drugs to treat pain.
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inspired by the concept of "cure and cure" behind Traditional Chinese medicine, Professor Ma and his team focused on inflammation, an important cause of pain.
previous studies have shown that stimulating some nerves in the neck with electric currents can effectively relieve inflammation.
this treatment often needs to be achieved through invasive surgical methods, increasing the risk of treatment.
ma and his team have designed a way to send electric currents and stimulate nerves using only electric needles.
researchers used an experimental model of inflammation in mice to simulate a highly lethal form of systemic inflammation: sepsis, that can easily occur after a serious bacterial or viral infection by injecting animals with lipid polysaccharides.
first selected the "sky center" point in the mouse's abdomen for electro-needle stimulation.
needle point is closely related to the neural loop of the spleen, which is one of the main organs of immunity and inflammatory response.
mice were injected with lipid polysaccharin after 15 minutes of 3 milliamps of electric needles.
researchers found that mice stimulated by electric needles had significantly lower inflammatory factors in their bodies and had at least twice the survival rate than those who were not treated.
however, if mice were treated with an electric needle after exposure to lipid polysaccharin, the inflammatory factors in their bodies were much higher than in untreated mice, and they all died within three days.
compared with genetically modified mice that altered the nervous system, the researchers found that stimulating the "idyllycemia" of the abdominal bit activates the sensory nerves that connect the spinal cord to the spleen, producing dethyrene.
epinephrine is used to suppress inflammation by acting on specific subjects in the spleen.
But if the needle is performed after a lipid polysaccharose injection, then another adrenaline-boosting subject has been fat polysaccharine-induced expression, and the needle stimulation worsens the condition.
the same treatment produces diametrically opposed results at different stages of the disease, which is very surprising to us, " Professor Ma said.
most of the time, patients come to a doctor who is already sick and in an inflammatory state.
we hope to find a way to reduce inflammation.
team tried to stimulate the electric needle with a "three-in-one" acuity on the mice's hind limbs.
they found that using a weaker 0.5 mAh current, whether performed before or after the lipid polysaccharin injection, had the effect of suppressing inflammation.
survival rate in mice after treatment was at least twice as high as in the control group.
Using genetically modified tools in mice, the team found that low-intensity electrical stimulation did not stimulate the neural pathline from the spinal cord to the spleen, but activated the lost nerves that connect the brain to the adrenal glands, thereby reducing inflammation.
"Our study reveals the principles of neuroanatomy in electric needles, but the safety and effectiveness of this treatment in humans needs to be further validated by clinical trials," Ma said.
the team's next step is to continue exploring how different lower needle points and current strength activate different neural path paths to regulate inflammation.
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