Millions of people worldwide use acupuncture to ease a variety of painful conditions, but it’s still not clear how the ancient treatment works. Now a new study of mice shows that insertion of an acupuncture needle activates nearby pain-suppressing receptors.
report in Nature Neuroscience
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/05/how-acupuncture-pierces-chronic-.html
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