PMC:4875991 / 16248-17056 JSONTXT

{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/4875991","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"4875991","source_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/4875991","text":"This study indicated that the majority of neuroimaging studies (72.78%) were performed on healthy subjects. It might be a reason for the inconsistent results. Because the traditional Chinese acupuncture theory holds that acupuncture treatment focuses on strengthening the body resistance to removing pathogenic factors and restoring the balance of Yin and Yang, the efficacy of acupuncture treatment is specific to the pathological conditions (imbalance of Yin and Yang), not the physiological state (Yin and Yang in equilibrium). So during the pathological conditions, the actions of acupoints are disease-oriented, while in the physiological state, the acupoint keeps in silence and the actions of acupoints lack orientation. In this case, patient is the better choice for acupuncture-neuroimaging studies.","tracks":[]}