Here in the Philippines, there is currently a huge focus on the government’s so-called “war on drugs”.  One aspect where acupuncture can help is rehabilitation.  Here is a study that gives us hope. Acupuncture helps Cocaine Addicts? The name of the study we are presenting in this blog entry is: Acupuncture reduces relapse to cocaine-seeking behavior via activation of GABA neurons in the ventral tegmental area by Jin et al.  (link) It’s stated goals are the following: There is

Real Acupuncture Better Than Sham Longtime followers of my blog will note that I have one basic underlying theme covering a good portion of the posts. Namely, that scientific evidence shows the difference between needling in true acupuncture points as opposed to non acupuncture points; and that needling produces different effects than merely touching the point.   I have already quoted several scientific articles on this, and there is no harm in adding one more. Here is the ne