Acupuncture holds promise for treating inflammatory disease

When acupuncture first became popular in the Western Hemisphere it had its doubters. It still does. But over time, through detailed observation, scientists have produced real evidence that ancient Chinese practitioners of the medical arts were onto something.

Now new research documents a direct connection between the use of acupuncture and physical processes that could alleviate sepsis, a condition that often develops in hospital intensive care units, springs from infection and inflammation, and takes an estimated 250,000 lives in the United States every year.
‘Sepsis is the major cause of death in the hospital,’ says Luis Ulloa, an immunologist at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School who led the study. ‘But in many cases patients don