Researchers are studying how acupuncture speeds the relay of electromagnetic signals along nerves. This triggers the flow of endorphins, the body's natural pain-killing chemicals.
Acupuncture also works by calming the inflammatory processes of the immune system. By triggering the formation of specialized inflammatory resolving cells, acupuncture triggers healing and recovery.
Acupuncture has also been shown to release the body's own opioids. These are chemicals in the brain that may lessen pain and promote sleep.
Acupuncture also changes brain chemistry by the release of neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters can stimulate or dampen nerve impulses.
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Gall Bladder 40
Name: Wilderness Mound
Location: On the foot, anterior and inferior to the external malleolus, in the depression on the lateral side of the tendon of m. extensor digitorum longus.
Classification: Yuan-Source of the Gall Bladder Meridian
Kidney 3
Name: Greater Mountain Stream
Location: On the medial aspect of the foot, posterior to the medial malleolus, in the depression between the tip of the medial malleolus and tendo calcaneus.
Classification: Yuan-Source point of the Kidney Meridian.
Governor Vessel 14
Name: Great Hammer
Location: On the posterior median line, below the spinous process of the 7th cervical vertebra.
Classification: Crossing point of the Six Yang Meridians
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