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(Message started by: ben_uk on Aug 5^th, 2005, 4:54am)

Title: Random Pricks reduce headaches!
Post by ben_uk on Aug 5^th, 2005, 4:54am

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06 August 2005
From New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725113.900

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/bmj.38512.405440.8Fv1?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=headache&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1123234626897_2259&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=1

Needle match
Inserting acupuncture needles in random places in the body is just as effective as placing them at traditional acupuncture points. So say doctors in Munich who treated 270 tension headache sufferers with either traditional or random needle placement. Both methods reduced headache occurrences by about half (British Medical Journal, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38512.405440.8F).

:o

Title: Re: Random Pricks reduce headaches!
Post by E-Double on Aug 5^th, 2005, 6:52am

I gave a not so random prick this morning ;)

so far nuttin but light shadows ;;D

Title: Re: Random Pricks reduce headaches!
Post by AussieBrian on Aug 5^th, 2005, 6:55am

Be thankful the Reverend Spooner never pricked his finger.

Title: Re: Random Pricks reduce headaches!
Post by don on Aug 5^th, 2005, 6:56am

Ahhhhhh!

Thats why Jonny is always at the bath house.

Its a preventative!

Title: Re: Random Pricks reduce headaches!
Post by Frank_W on Aug 5^th, 2005, 7:21am

Since I've quit smoking, I've been somewhat of a random prick. >:( [smiley=laugh.gif]

You can prick your finger in public, no problem.
If you finger your prick in public, it usually means probation and community service. :-/ [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: Random Pricks reduce headaches!
Post by Sandy_C on Aug 5^th, 2005, 7:27am

on 08/05/05 at 07:21:40, Frank_W wrote:

You can prick your finger in public, no problem.
If you finger your prick in public, it usually means probation and community service. :-/ [smiley=laugh.gif]

LMAO
[smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: Random Pricks reduce headaches!
Post by Ueli on Aug 5^th, 2005, 7:39am

This proves what I always said, nothing more than placebo effect. I wonder how the supporters of the 'meridian' theory will wiggle out. ;;D

I wish I was the patent holder of the drug 'Placebo', I'd be a rich man.
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Title: Re: Random Pricks reduce headaches!
Post by floridian on Aug 5^th, 2005, 8:35am

on 08/05/05 at 07:39:42, Ueli wrote:

Your conclusions are rather different than the researchers who carried out the work - they concluded that "The acupuncture intervention investigated in this trial was more effective than no treatment but not significantly more effective than minimal acupuncture for the treatment of tension-type headache."

It does suggest that some of the effects of acupuncture are not dependent on meridians, but that is a statement most acupuncturists would agree with (independent of the issue of whether meridians with specific effects exist).