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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silberstein, Morry
Format: Journal Article
Published: Academic Press 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23440