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eCAM Advance Access published online on November 12, 2007
eCAM, doi:10.1093/ecam/nem169
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© 2007 The Author(s).
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Ten Years Evidence-based High-Tech Acupuncture—A Short Review of Centrally Measured Effects*

Gerhard Litscher

Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 29, A-8036 Graz/Austria

The assessment of acupuncture-induced effects on brain function is crucial. Ultrasound-assisted brain function monitoring and bioelectrical methods as well as near infrared spectroscopic procedures and functional magnetic resonance investigations form the basis for the latest scientific examination methods for acupuncture research. The laserneedle acupuncture, which was examined scientifically for the first time in Graz, represents a new painless and non-invasive acupuncture method. In this way, individual combinations of acupuncture points can be stimulated simultaneously according to traditional Chinese medicine. In the context of double-blind studies, effects in the brain could be demonstrated in a reproducible manner for the first time. This second part of the short review article summarizes some of the centrally measured effects of acupuncture obtained at the Medical University of Graz within the last 10 years.

Keywords: complementary medicine – integrative medicine – laserneedle acupuncture – traditional Chinese medicine

For reprints and all Correspondence: Gerhard Litscher, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 29, A-8036 Graz/Austria. Tel: +43 316 385-3907; Fax: +43 316 385-3908; E-mail: gerhard.litscher{at}meduni-graz.at

*This article was presented by the author in part as a keynote lecture at the 10th East-West Medical CMIR Conference ‘Integrative Medicine—The Future?’ on March 17, 2007, at the Royal College of Physicians in London. This article is based on the review series ‘Bioengineering Assessment of Acupuncture’ as published in ‘Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering’ (1–5,37).

Received April 23, 2007; accepted September 6, 2007


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