Scientific Proof to How your Body react to Acupuncture - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD

Regular sessions of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine can treat PTSD.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder that occurs after an individual has experienced intense mental stress, such as an unusual threat or disaster, and lasts for a long time. Its main symptoms include reliving the traumatic event, avoiding any thoughts or feelings about the event, having negative feelings about yourself or the world, and having difficulty sleeping or concentrating. The persistent condition can interfere patients with relationships, ability to hold a job, the quality of life, and overall health. PTSD is also associated with internal disease, serious disability, and premature death.

Treatments available for PTSD span a variety of psychological and pharmacological treatments. The most common side effects of pharmacological treatment are gastrointestinal reactions, psychiatric symptoms and autonomic dysfunction.

Acupuncture has been shown to have potential benefits for a variety of mental disorders. A meta-analysis of acupuncture for PTSD in adults found that it can help with PTSD core symptoms and has fewer side effects.

Here are the scientific papers that support the fact that PTSD can be treated with Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Conclusion: Acupuncture’s effectiveness on PTSD may be mediated by the promotion of neuroprotection, neurogenesis, and synaptic plasticity in multiple brain areas, the regulation of stress responses in the neuroendocrine system, and signaling pathway involvement.

Conclusion: Acupuncture can treat PTSD by achieving a balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic neural activity, reducing activation in the limbic system, hence inducing a calming effect, reshaping the functional connectivity map within important and relevant cortical regions that encompass the default-mode network.

Conclusion: Acupuncture can affect the autonomic nervous system, and the prefrontal as well as limbic brain structures, making it effective in the treatment of PTSD.