The Meridian Acupuncture Society (President Hi-Jun Park) held an “Online Academic Academy with the 3rd Basic Researcher and Clinical Oriental Medicine Physician” with the theme “Acupuncture Research Focused on Scientific Advances: Two-Way Treatment Mechanism of ‘acupuncture for drug addiction “on the 19. held
At the Academy on this day, Professor Yang Jae-ha of Daegu Haany University, who last year published a thesis in the journal ‘Science Advances’ with a study on the mechanism of acupuncture treatment for drug addiction, explained the study. on the bi-directional control mechanism of acupuncture from the point of view of basic research Dr. Kyung Hee Dong-Ju of the Oriental Medicine Clinic introduced the two-way modulating effect of acupuncture, focusing on clinical cases.
On this day, Professor Yang Jae-ha presented research findings that can control alcohol and drug addiction through acupuncture and stressed that acupuncture, a non-drug treatment, will play an important role in drug addiction treatment. .
Prof. Yang confirmed that stimulation of “Shinminhyeol” with saliva had a bidirectional effect in controlling dopamine secretion deficiency and sensitization response in the midbrain marginal dopaminergic nervous system of alcohol-dependent animals. In other words, the neural mechanism of alcohol craving during alcohol addiction exhibits a bidirectional feature in which the limbic dopaminergic nervous system of the middle brain, a compensatory neural circuit of the brain, is activated and sensitized at the same time.
Professor Yang said: “Combining previous studies, it was concluded that saliva activates endorphins with reduced functional activity to increase dopamine secretion and, with increased dopamine secretion, it is concluded that induced anxiety symptoms alcohol are reduced “. hypothesis that ‘beta endorphins’ are related to the mechanism by which acupuncture treatment controls alcohol and drug addiction, we plan to continue research to elucidate the therapeutic mechanism for this. ”
In addition, Dr. Woo Hyun-soo introduced trends in acupuncture research related to addiction through Pubmed research, presented clinical cases related to the bidirectional effects of acupuncture, and suggested future research directions for the treatment of acupuncture as a clinical physician. Oriental.
According to Dr. Woo, a total of 378 documents were found when “addictive acupuncture” was searched on Pubmed.
Furthermore, last year “Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews” showed that acupuncture stimulation is a drug craving that normalizes the function of the reward circuit by involving both parties in incentive awareness theory and motivational process theory of ‘opponent, which are theories that seem to contradict the role of the mesolimbic dopamine pathway, explaining that the results showed that the phenomenon was suppressed.
Director Woo said: “As for the bi-directional therapeutic effect of acupuncture, Eastern doctors naturally recognize this mechanism and seem to apply it in clinical practice.” One might wonder where the tower is and whether all the phenomena that occur. occurring in the body can be explained neurophysiologically, “he said.
Additionally, Dr. Woo, who presented examples of real clinical experiences with the bi-directional acupuncture control mechanism, such as digestive system diseases, neuropsychiatric diseases and circulatory diseases, said: “If you look at these treatment cases, the same acupuncture points are used for interrelated symptoms. However, it will be difficult to clearly identify a single mechanism for this effect. It will be possible to lay the groundwork for connecting to ovens of standardization, “he said.
Specifically, Dr Woo said, “While most of the acupuncture research has focused on ‘pain’, patients with various disease groups will also visit the Oriental Clinic, a primary medical institution, in the future.” In this regard, this study to investigate the effects of acupuncture on addiction can be applied in the future to various diseases such as anxiety, insomnia and neurosis, as well as addiction in frontline Eastern medical institutions. I think it is a more significant study as it provided an opportunity. “
Meanwhile, the 4th conference of the “Online Academic Academy with Basic Researchers and Clinical Oriental Physicians” to provide opportunities for the Meridian and Acupuncture Society to present and exchange not only researchers interested in acupuncture, but also related clinicians and oriental medical students the results of the research are coming to oriental medicine, which will be held on November 14 under the theme ‘Going together for basic research and clinical research’.
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