Acupuncture is an effective therapy for treating inflammatory conditions, including pain problems and many chronic diseases. It can reduce inflammation in the body by affecting the body’s cytokines, Certain cytokines promote an inflammatory response, and acupuncture has been shown to reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines and increase anti-inflammatory cytokines.Acupuncture which has been around for 6000 years, involves mechanical stimulation of certain points on the body’s surface known as acupoints.

The stimulation activates nerve signaling and remotely affects the function of internal organs corresponding to specific acupoints. These have been numerous articles and studies, explaining the mechanism of how Acupuncture reduces inflammation.

One of the recent studies was at Harvard Medical School. The nickname for this study was called Quieting the storm, meaning the storm of chemicals that get released in an extreme inflammatory response.

In this study at Harvard Medical School, neuroscientists found acupuncture decreases inflammation in mice.The study, publishes August 12, 2020 in Neuron Journal, showed how acupuncture activated different signaling pathways that triggered a pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory response in animals with bacterially induced systemic inflammation. This study represents a critical step toward defining the neuroanatomical mechanisms underlying acupuncture and offers forward motion for alternative approaches for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.

“The findings represent an important step in ongoing efforts not only to understand the neuroanatomy of acupuncture but to identify ways to incorporate it into the treatment arsenal of inflammatory diseases”, states the principle neuroscientist, Qiufu Ma, the professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, also a researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

In the study, acupuncture stimulation influenced how animals coped with cytokine storm, the rapid release of large amounts of cytokines, inflammation fueling molecules, this abnormal immune reaction can occur in the setting of any infection and has been long known to physicians as a hallmark of sepsis, an organ damaging, often-fatal inflammatory response to infection. Sepsis affects millions of people all over the world.

In a recent article in the Journal of Inflammation Research, titled The Anti-Inflammatory Actions and Mechanisms of Acupuncture from Acupoint to Target Organs via Neuro-Immune Regulation they gathered information from 277 different articles and medical studies. they concluded that Inflammation plays a significant role in the occurrence and development of multiple diseases.

It is well known that localized acupuncture-mediated anti-inflammatory effects involve the regulation of and functions of immune cells, including macrophages, granulocytes, mast cells, and T cells. Acupuncture further stimulates multiple neuro-immune pathways, including the vagus-adrenal medulla-dopamine, and sympathetic pathways, as well as the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis, facilitating the release of crucial neurotransmitters and hormones.

This review provides a scientific and reliable basis for the clinical application of acupuncture in various inflammatory conditions.

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