Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site proper.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!proper!hipkiss From: hipkiss@proper.UUCP (Ron Hipkiss) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: re: Acupuncture Message-ID: <1373@proper.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 13:23:07 EDT Article-I.D.: proper.1373 Posted: Sun Jun 17 13:23:07 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 07:43:31 EDT Organization: Proper UNIX, San Leandro, CA Lines: 16 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 !dual!proper!hipkiss