Kompas.com-Acupuncture or acupuncture work better than aspirin in reducing severe and chronic headaches often. This report concludes the United States scientists, Monday (1 / 12) then.
A study by scientists from Duke University involving almost 4000 patients with migraine headache disorders, tension in the head and various forms of chronic headaches have shown that the use of acupuncture to reduce headaches 62 percent more effective than drugs that are only able to reduce headache 45 percent.
"Acupuncture treatment has become a favorite tool for many purposes ranging from improving fertility to reduce pain after surgery because of their experience with this technique the effect is minimal and inexpensive compared to other treatment options," said Dr. Tong Joo Gan, principal investigator.
According to Tong, the analysis of this research to prove how great of acupuncture in reducing chronic headache. In writing in the Journal of Anesthetics and Analgesia, the research team said 53 percent of patients using acupuncture feel helped or reduced the pain than those who do not use needles, about 45 percent.
"One important thing to know many people in the use of acupuncture needles is that this technique is not painful even stabbed a needle," says Gan. "This is a method that can release the pain killer (pain killer) from within the body's own natural." In other words, this needle puncture painkiller owned stimulate the body to exit. As a result, reduced headache.
This research is essentially to say, from six patients, five people are good people and not feel sick again thanks to acupuncture. Other studies have shown that acupuncture is able to get rid of pain is common after abdominal surgery in the head, neck cancer, and even reduce heartburn and other symptoms of menopause, also reduce the effects of chemotherapy such as nausea.
