2012년 12월 10일 월요일

Acupuncture and balancing brain

Recently, I read a book titled "The edge effect". The author is Dr.Eric R. Braverman. He is focusing on balancing brain specifically neurotransmitters in the brain when he treats his patients. There are four main neurotransmitters in the brain; dopamine, acetylcholine, gaba, serotonin. The neurotransmitter is involved in communication inside brain as well as between brain and body. He considers disease as unbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain, which leads to unbalance in the body as well leading to disease regardless of symptoms. I like his idea because it is integrative approach just as Oriental medicine is. The body is connected together. So, it should be considered integratively rather than separately, when it comes to treatment. He developed questionaire to find out which nurotransmitter is deficient and made plan to produce more neurotransmitter deficient at the moment with medication, hormone and supplement mostly. As a practitioner in acupuncture and Oriental medicine, I adapted his idea of balancing brain. I used his questionaire and tried to find any relations between deficiency of specific neurotransmitter and disease pattern in perspective of Oriental medicine. It is rarely seen dopamine deficiency. 70 % of patient is turned out to be gaba deficiency. 20% of them is serotonin deficiency. 10% of them is acetylcholine deficiency.
Gaba deficiency is understood as Liver yang rising, Liver qi stagnation, Kidney yin deficiency leading to yang rising pattern; heat, insomnia, tics, depression, stress, chronic or acute eczema etc. Gaba seemed to be related to Liver and Kidney. Serotonin deficiency is always come together with gaba deficiency. Serotonin deficiency is understood as Heart yang rising leading to palpitation and depression. So, I think Heart yang rising cannot occur by itself without underlying either Liver or Kidney yin deficiency; gaba deficiency. Moreover, those who have brain related disease like MS, Parkinson's, forgetfulness mostly shows acetylcholine deficiency in the test, which is understood as Yin deficiency or dryness in Oriental medicine. All in all, even though the information is not sufficient yet, my conclusion is that treatment in Oriental medicine could be balancing brain as well. THEN, how effectively can acupuncture balance brain?

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