Acupuncture for Visceral Pain

Acupuncture for Visceral Pain

Acupuncture achieves analgesic effects on visceral pain via multiple modes (signal interaction and integration at neurons, ion channels, activation of central descending inhibition pathways, gene regulation, etc.) and recruitments of a variety of biochemicals (opioids, 5-HT, NMDA, etc.).

Source: Chen S, Wang S, Rong P, Wang J, Qiao L, Feng X, Liu J, Zhang J. Acupuncture for visceral pain: neural substrates and potential mechanisms. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2014;2014:609594.