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A New Perspective of Acupuncture: The Interaction among Three Networks Leads to Neutralization
Acupuncture has been used to treat multiple medical conditions, but whether the diverse effects of acupuncture are intrinsically linked and how they might be connected have yet to be determined. More and more researches have shown that acupuncture is a kind of nociceptive stimulus, which can cause i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6409053/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30915143 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2326867 |
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author | Li, Ning-cen Li, Ming-yue Chen, Bo Guo, Yi |
author_facet | Li, Ning-cen Li, Ming-yue Chen, Bo Guo, Yi |
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description | Acupuncture has been used to treat multiple medical conditions, but whether the diverse effects of acupuncture are intrinsically linked and how they might be connected have yet to be determined. More and more researches have shown that acupuncture is a kind of nociceptive stimulus, which can cause inflammatory reaction in the sites of acupuncture and then further activate the nerve-endocrine-immune systems to cause the cascade amplification of the acupuncture effect. This review seeks to provide a comprehensive summary of the existing literature concerning the role of “acupoint-meridian-disease network” in various effects of acupuncture and suggest a novel notion that acupuncture may restore homeostasis under different pathological conditions by regulating this network, resulting in the activation of different reaction cascades in response to pathological injury. We think that acupuncture acts on acupoints, first activating the small network of acupoints (Acupoint Network). The information of acupuncture is amplified by cascade, and the nerve endocrine immune system (NEI) is activated through the large network of meridians (Meridian Network) of the body itself. The nerve-endocrine-immune system (NEI) further outputs the effect information to the target organ through multilevel and multisystems and finally acts on the disease network (Disease Network) to produce acupuncture effect. |
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spelling | pubmed-64090532019-03-26 A New Perspective of Acupuncture: The Interaction among Three Networks Leads to Neutralization Li, Ning-cen Li, Ming-yue Chen, Bo Guo, Yi Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Review Article Acupuncture has been used to treat multiple medical conditions, but whether the diverse effects of acupuncture are intrinsically linked and how they might be connected have yet to be determined. More and more researches have shown that acupuncture is a kind of nociceptive stimulus, which can cause inflammatory reaction in the sites of acupuncture and then further activate the nerve-endocrine-immune systems to cause the cascade amplification of the acupuncture effect. This review seeks to provide a comprehensive summary of the existing literature concerning the role of “acupoint-meridian-disease network” in various effects of acupuncture and suggest a novel notion that acupuncture may restore homeostasis under different pathological conditions by regulating this network, resulting in the activation of different reaction cascades in response to pathological injury. We think that acupuncture acts on acupoints, first activating the small network of acupoints (Acupoint Network). The information of acupuncture is amplified by cascade, and the nerve endocrine immune system (NEI) is activated through the large network of meridians (Meridian Network) of the body itself. The nerve-endocrine-immune system (NEI) further outputs the effect information to the target organ through multilevel and multisystems and finally acts on the disease network (Disease Network) to produce acupuncture effect. Hindawi 2019-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6409053/ /pubmed/30915143 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2326867 Text en Copyright © 2019 Ning-cen Li et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Li, Ning-cen Li, Ming-yue Chen, Bo Guo, Yi A New Perspective of Acupuncture: The Interaction among Three Networks Leads to Neutralization |
title | A New Perspective of Acupuncture: The Interaction among Three Networks Leads to Neutralization |
title_full | A New Perspective of Acupuncture: The Interaction among Three Networks Leads to Neutralization |
title_fullStr | A New Perspective of Acupuncture: The Interaction among Three Networks Leads to Neutralization |
title_full_unstemmed | A New Perspective of Acupuncture: The Interaction among Three Networks Leads to Neutralization |
title_short | A New Perspective of Acupuncture: The Interaction among Three Networks Leads to Neutralization |
title_sort | new perspective of acupuncture: the interaction among three networks leads to neutralization |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6409053/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30915143 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2326867 |
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