Acupuncture Relaxation, Vigilance Stage, and Autonomic Nervous System Function: A Comparative Study of Their Interrelationships.

Conclusions: Alterations in background EEG activities were not the primary factors changing ANS function to parasympathetic-dominant and decreasing HR, but these alterations related to a weak secondary factor changing ANS function. EEG activity by which cortical relaxation and vigilance were represented was the weak secondary factor changing ANS function during acupuncture; the primary factor might be supraspinal reflection.
PMID: 32879648 [PubMed]

Source: Acupuncture in Medicine - July 31, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Uchida C, Waki H, Minakawa Y, Tamai H, Miyazaki S, Hisajima T, Imai K Tags: Med Acupunct Source Type: research