The cutaneous intrinsic visceral afferent nervous system: A new model for acupuncture analgesia
The mechanism of acupuncture, whilst not known with certainty, has previously been considered to be stimulatory. A novel hypothesis is presented here in which C fiber tactile afferent axons bifurcate at acupuncture points and then diverge, running along acupuncture meridians, to subsequently communi...
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Academic Press
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23440 |