Acupuncture and Stress

Needle This: Study Hints at How Acupuncture Works to Relieve Stress

By Alice ParkMarch 15, 20132 Comments

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Needles may not seem like the best tool for treating stress, but acupuncture could be tapping into basic biological systems that keep stress under control.

Reporting in the Journal of Endocrinology, researchers led by Ladan Eshkevari, assistant program director of the nurse anesthesia program at Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies, mimicked chronic stress in a rat model and documented how stimulating certain body points withacupuncture can alter stress hormones./.../