{"id":1608249,"date":"2022-08-16T09:17:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T13:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1608249"},"modified":"2022-08-16T09:17:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T13:17:54","slug":"groundbreaking-study-shows-acupuncture-beats-injected-morphine-for-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/groundbreaking-study-shows-acupuncture-beats-injected-morphine-for-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking Study Shows Acupuncture Beats Injected Morphine for Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgroundbreaking-study-shows-acupuncture-beats-injected-morphine-for-pain%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1608249&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>An amazing new study has found that acupuncture, the ancient practice of using needles to stimulate bodily self healing, is more effective than intravenous morphine for pain.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A truly groundbreaking study published in the\u00a0<em>American Journal of Emergency Medicine<\/em>\u00a0titled, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajemjournal.com\/article\/S0735-6757(16)30422-3\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acupuncture vs intravenous morphine in the management of acute pain in the ED,<\/a>\u201d reveals that acupuncture \u2014 one of the oldest techniques to treat pain \u2014 is more effective, faster in relieving pain, and with less adverse effects, than intravenous morphine.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The study was conducted over the course of a 1-year period at the Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital in Tunisia, a tertiary care facility with over 100,000 Emergency Department (ED) visits per year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">300 ED patients with acute pain were included in the study: 150 in the morphine group (administered up to 15 mg a day) and 150 in the acupuncture group. The two groups were comparable in terms of age, sex, and co-morbidities, with the only significant difference being that there were more abdominal pain patients in the morphine group and more low back pain cases in the acupuncture group.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The striking results were reported as follows:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4663845\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/14\/Screenshot-2022-08-14-at-11-50-43-Acupuncture-Beats-Injected-Morphine-for-Pain-Groundbreaking-Study.png\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"573\" height=\"541\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>In short, the acupuncture group saw a great pain-relieving effect, which occurred faster, with significantly less side effects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy alignnone size-full wp-image-4663835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pain_morphine_acupuncture.jpg.png\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"471\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4663835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pain_morphine_acupuncture.jpg.png\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"471\" height=\"355\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" dir=\"ltr\">A graph from the study showing the pain-decreasing differences between morphine and acupuncture<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Discussion<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Since 1996, the World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as a safe and effective therapy for the treatment of a wide range of conditions, including pain and discomfort.<sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0Despite this, the use of acupuncture within the conventional standard of care is still exceedingly rare. A deep skepticism exists for therapeutic modalities that do yet have a clearly characterized mechanism of action, as defined through\u00a0conventional biomedical understanding and terminology.\u00a0Often, in lieu of this, its therapeutic effects are written off as merely \u201cplacebo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Placebo, however, is not as diminutive\u00a0term as it may first seem.\u00a0\u00a0The placebo effect\u00a0actually reflects the deep power and regenerative capability of the body-mind to heal itself. And since its power translates directly into real, measurable improvements in terms of clinical outcomes, it does not matter if we fully understand \u201chow\u201d it works. Also, consider that \u201cevidence-based\u201d (EB) medicine not only depends entirely on clinical outcomes as final proof of an intervention\u2019s efficacy, but also, the entire EB\u00a0medicine model depends on \u201ccontrolling\u201d for the placebo effect, as it is already tacitly recognized as having immense power in influencing the outcomes in most interventions. And so, whether or not a fully known or plausible \u201cmechanism of action\u201d has been identified is secondary in importance to whether it works or not in clinical practice.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Clearly the new study reveals that acupuncture has a powerful role to play in pain management. With addiction to pain relieving drugs affecting millions around the world, acupuncture is perfectly poised to provide patients a time-tested, drug-free alternative. As you can see from the study\u2019s graph, the adverse effects comparison is staggeringly in favor of acupuncture as the safer modality.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy alignnone size-medium wp-image-4663836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/adverse_events2.jpg-600x580-1.png\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"580\" \/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4663836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/adverse_events2.jpg-600x580-1.png\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"580\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Finally, here are the study\u2019s powerful conclusions:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy alignnone size-full wp-image-4663847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/14\/Screenshot-2022-08-14-at-11-51-07-Acupuncture-Beats-Injected-Morphine-for-Pain-Groundbreaking-Study.png\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"575\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4663847\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/14\/Screenshot-2022-08-14-at-11-51-07-Acupuncture-Beats-Injected-Morphine-for-Pain-Groundbreaking-Study.png\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"575\" height=\"178\" \/><\/noscript>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Republished from <a href=\"https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/\">GreenMedInfo.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amazing new study has found that acupuncture, the ancient practice of using needles to stimulate bodily self healing, is more effective than intravenous morphine for pain.\u00a0A truly groundbreaking study<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}