Guest guest Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 Hi to all. Sorry if I come back to RCT, but, just a few days ago, I recalled those old (about sixties) experiments done on (poor) dogs, who riceived electrostimating acup. (like in analgesy, low freqency, 5Hz); just after one hour, while analgesy was effective, was injected nalorphine (Naloxone) the same drug used in patients in overdose due to Heroin or Morphine; Nalorphine works on the same sites of opium derivates, inhibiting them. In the dogs' experiment after the injection, the analgesic effect of electroacupncture suddenly disappeared, such demonstrating the same drug mechanism in acupuncture, as in a drug opioid analgesic treatment. Of course, this is only a western sight of acupuncture, but it could be useful -in my opinion- to execute an RCT vs placebo, assuming as a placebo treatement the injection or not of nalorphine (placebo acupuncture) vs another kind of " naked " injection, like a watery salt solution (Physiologic solution) after an acupuncture treatement. Hoping to be understood, because of my terrible english (reading an english artcle is a thing, while writing...) I wish to ask you all about this idea and how to do it, maybe in two nations, why not? Best regards and thanks to all of you. , Italy -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Chinese Medicine Chinese MedicinePer conto di mike Bowser Inviato: mercoledi 22 giugno 2005 3.25 A: Chinese Medicine Oggetto: Re: Acupuncture Research Protocols Attilio had contacted me offline about an article he was preparing for publication along this line of thought. I was making an offer of collaberation on such an endeavor but with a slight twist. While most of us have heard of this or that research that shows something of acupuncture interest no one has yet attempted to pool this info to show that there is an event that is created by such an experiment. Attilio let me know. Later Mike W. Bowser, L Ac >Pete Theisen <petet >Chinese Medicine >Chinese Medicine >Re: Acupuncture Research Protocols >Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:47:41 -0400 > >mike Bowser wrote: > > Attilio, > > I have a few ideas on this and why it should be important for us to > > coorelate other research findings when appropriate. I have thought that > > maybe we should write an article about the various physical signs and >info > > that are known. You can contact me offline if interested. > >Hi Mike! > >Keep it on line, a number of us are interested :-) > >Regards, > >Pete http://babel.altavista.com/ and adjust accordingly. ---------- -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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