ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2009
Analgesic action of acupuncture and moxibustion: a review of unique approaches in Japan.
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- Moxibustion for pain relief in patients with primary dysmenorrhea: A randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2017Trial
- Differential brain effects of laser and needle acupuncture at LR8 using functional MRI.Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society · 2013Trial
- Moxibustion Stimulation Induces Changes in Brain Activity: A Functional MR Imaging Study.Magnetic resonance in medical sciences : MRMS : an official journal of Japan Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine · 2025Article
- Moxibustion ameliorates chronic inflammatory visceral pain via spinal circRNA-miRNA-mRNA networks: a central mechanism study.Molecular brain · 2024Article
- Effect of Moxibustion Treatment on Degree Centrality in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Effects of warm needling therapy on symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2021Article
- Moxibustion for cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis of animal studies.Integrative medicine research · 2021Review
- TCM nonpharmacological interventions for ankylosing spondylitis: A protocol for systematic review and network meta-analysis.Medicine · 2021Article
- Traditional Chinese medicine for mild cognitive impairment: A protocol for systematic review and network meta-analysis.Medicine · 2020Article
- Effects of moxibustion on symptoms of mild cognitive impairment: protocol of a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2020Article
- Patient Assessment and Chronic Pain Self-Management in Ethnomedicine: Seasonal and Ecosystemic Embodiment in Ayurvedic Patient-Centered Care.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Effects of Acupuncture on Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020Review
- Electroacupuncture Alleviated Referral Hindpaw Hyperalgesia via Suppressing Spinal Long-Term Potentiation (LTP) in TNBS-Induced Colitis Rats.Neural plasticity · 2019Article
- The Efficacy and Underlying Mechanism of Moxibustion in Preventing Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review of Animal Studies.Experimental neurobiology · 2018Review
- Effects of electroacupuncture on corticotropin-releasing hormone in rats with chronic visceral hypersensitivity.World journal of gastroenterology · 2015Article
- Role of moxibustion in inflammatory responses during treatment of rat ulcerative colitis.World journal of gastroenterology · 2014Article
- Sonography of occult rib and costal cartilage fractures: a case series.Journal of chiropractic medicine · 2014Article
- Acupuncture and women's health: an overview of the role of acupuncture and its clinical management in women's reproductive health.International journal of women's health · 2014Review
- Warming Moxibustion Relieves Chronic Visceral Hyperalgesia in Rats: Relations to Spinal Dynorphin and Orphanin-FQ System.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2013Article
- Does acupuncture needling induce analgesic effects comparable to diffuse noxious inhibitory controls?Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2012Article
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Abstract
The mechanism of acupuncture analgesia (AA) is one of the most widely researched topics in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) based on modern medical methodology. Endogenous opioid-mediated mechanisms of acupuncture have been well established since the 1970s. In this review, we have covered the progress of AA research by Japanese investigators. In particular, we have reviewed the physiological basis of analgesic effects induced by acupuncture and moxibustion, including the actions of endogenous opioid and diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNICs), and the afferent fibers participating in acupuncture and moxibustion stimuli are discussed.
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