Cool small study looks at Brain MRI images after people got acupuncture at 3 different acupuncture points.
MRI of a human brain
In this interesting small study they took MRI’s of peoples brain activity while they were getting acupuncture at 3 different points. Ht 7, Kd 4, and St 36 The points are on the wrist, ankle and just below the knee. They found that different parts of the brain were modulated for each of the points. Some of the parts of the brain that were affected influenced emotional processing and pain-cognition pathways. These points have different functions in TCM so it’s cool that the MRI picked up different brain patters for each point too!