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From: hipkiss@proper.UUCP (Ron Hipkiss)
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Subject: re: Acupuncture
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Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 13:23:07 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 17 13:23:07 1984
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	As far as Acupuncture goes, some interesting studies have been done
in the past few years...I'm looking thru my notes to find the source, but anyway
i read that patients given opiate blocking drugs (such as Naloxone) feel the 
pain return, while under acupuncture treatment, a strong suggestion that 
acupuncture works by way of stimulating the release of Endorphins and/or
Enkephalins...the body's natural opiates, some of them hundreds of times more
powerful than Morphine and Heroin.
	If this is true, then I think that is quite likely that acupuncture
does indeed work, as anything that liberates these powerful endogenous drugs
would be an effective technique indeed...
	If I'm not mistaken, I read it in SCIENCE NEWS. Good luck!

                  Donald Hipkiss
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