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eCAM Advance Access published online on May 7, 2008
eCAM, doi:10.1093/ecam/nen034
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© 2008 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.

Review

Ten Years Evidence-based High-Tech Acupuncture Part 3: A Short Review of Animal Experiments*

Gerhard Litscher

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

High-tech acupuncture research has been performed for 10 years at the Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Medical University of Graz. This article as a part of a series comprises animal experiments in the field of needle and laser acupuncture. The investigations presented in this article were performed in pigs, dogs and sheep. In all studies sedative stimulation effects of the acupoint Yintang are described using different measurement parameters (EEG-bispectral index, EEG spectral edge frequency and metabolic parameters).

Keywords: acupuncture – laser acupuncture – traditional Chinese medicine

For reprints and all correspondence: Prof. Gerhard Litscher, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine and TCM Research Center Graz, 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 is part of a presentation which was given by the author as a keynote lecture at the 10th East–West Medical CMIR Conference ‘Integrative Medicine—The Future?’ in 2007 at the Royal College of Physicians in London (7,8).

Received January 10, 2008; accepted April 8, 2008


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