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Case report: Cheek acupuncture exhibits an immediate effect in relieving severe pain associated with nerve compression or damage of central nervous system and its potential mechanism of action

Peripheral nerve compression or permanent damage of central nervous system (CNS) can trigger severe neuralgia to patients. Analgesic medicine or even surgery to remove nerve compression is commonly used for pain relief. But these treatments either are ineffective, have side-effect or can cause subse...

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Autores principales: Wang, Yongzhou, Yang, Lu, Wu, Yongzheng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10400715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37547149
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1211361
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Yang, Lu
Wu, Yongzheng
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description Peripheral nerve compression or permanent damage of central nervous system (CNS) can trigger severe neuralgia to patients. Analgesic medicine or even surgery to remove nerve compression is commonly used for pain relief. But these treatments either are ineffective, have side-effect or can cause subsequent complications. Acupuncture, a technique that has been widely used in China and other Asian countries for thousands of years, is an alternative to relieve pain, although the mechanism of action is not fully understood. In this study, two patients who had symptoms of severe neuralgia associated with peripheral nerve compression or permanent damage/dysfunction of CNS and analgesic medicines are ineffective, underwent cheek acupuncture, a new technique established recent years by the author with the features of painless, standardization, simplicity, and precision. An immediate analgesic effect of the cheek acupuncture was observed without any side effects, and clinical remission was achieved after several sessions of treatments. It suggests that this new approach is an efficient alternative for pain relief induced by nerve impairment. The authors proposed a biological holographic model of triplet homunculi existing at the level of the local cheek, spinal cord, and cerebral cortex, to explain the immediate and accurate analgesic effect of the cheek acupuncture. These homunculi have the same structure, and synchronized sensations and actions that are mediated by afferent and efferent neurons, as the integrated human body. Therefore, the nociception and needling signals are sensed, transmitted, analyzed, and manipulated cooperatively and simultaneously among these homunculi with the subsequent pain relief in the body.
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spelling pubmed-104007152023-08-05 Case report: Cheek acupuncture exhibits an immediate effect in relieving severe pain associated with nerve compression or damage of central nervous system and its potential mechanism of action Wang, Yongzhou Yang, Lu Wu, Yongzheng Front Neurosci Neuroscience Peripheral nerve compression or permanent damage of central nervous system (CNS) can trigger severe neuralgia to patients. Analgesic medicine or even surgery to remove nerve compression is commonly used for pain relief. But these treatments either are ineffective, have side-effect or can cause subsequent complications. Acupuncture, a technique that has been widely used in China and other Asian countries for thousands of years, is an alternative to relieve pain, although the mechanism of action is not fully understood. In this study, two patients who had symptoms of severe neuralgia associated with peripheral nerve compression or permanent damage/dysfunction of CNS and analgesic medicines are ineffective, underwent cheek acupuncture, a new technique established recent years by the author with the features of painless, standardization, simplicity, and precision. An immediate analgesic effect of the cheek acupuncture was observed without any side effects, and clinical remission was achieved after several sessions of treatments. It suggests that this new approach is an efficient alternative for pain relief induced by nerve impairment. The authors proposed a biological holographic model of triplet homunculi existing at the level of the local cheek, spinal cord, and cerebral cortex, to explain the immediate and accurate analgesic effect of the cheek acupuncture. These homunculi have the same structure, and synchronized sensations and actions that are mediated by afferent and efferent neurons, as the integrated human body. Therefore, the nociception and needling signals are sensed, transmitted, analyzed, and manipulated cooperatively and simultaneously among these homunculi with the subsequent pain relief in the body. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10400715/ /pubmed/37547149 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1211361 Text en Copyright © 2023 Wang, Yang and Wu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Wang, Yongzhou
Yang, Lu
Wu, Yongzheng
Case report: Cheek acupuncture exhibits an immediate effect in relieving severe pain associated with nerve compression or damage of central nervous system and its potential mechanism of action
title Case report: Cheek acupuncture exhibits an immediate effect in relieving severe pain associated with nerve compression or damage of central nervous system and its potential mechanism of action
title_full Case report: Cheek acupuncture exhibits an immediate effect in relieving severe pain associated with nerve compression or damage of central nervous system and its potential mechanism of action
title_fullStr Case report: Cheek acupuncture exhibits an immediate effect in relieving severe pain associated with nerve compression or damage of central nervous system and its potential mechanism of action
title_full_unstemmed Case report: Cheek acupuncture exhibits an immediate effect in relieving severe pain associated with nerve compression or damage of central nervous system and its potential mechanism of action
title_short Case report: Cheek acupuncture exhibits an immediate effect in relieving severe pain associated with nerve compression or damage of central nervous system and its potential mechanism of action
title_sort case report: cheek acupuncture exhibits an immediate effect in relieving severe pain associated with nerve compression or damage of central nervous system and its potential mechanism of action
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10400715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37547149
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1211361
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