Acupuncture & Natural Medicine              Dr. Peng, Rockville, MD

Who needs Acupuncture
Treatment

Acupuncure is most effective in
areas including but not limited to:

Low back pain, frozen shoulder,
arthritis, knee and other joint pains,
headache, neck pain, nausea,
stress, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue,
paralysis rehabilitation, allergy
menopause symptoms, general
well-being.

Gang Peng OMD, Ph.D., L.
Ac.

Dr. Gang Peng is an acupuncture
practitioner at Acupuncture &
Natural Medicine. He is also
an acupuncturist at National
Institutes of Health. He graduated
from Beijing University of
(Traditional) Chinese
Medicine (MB or OMD) in Beijing,
China and Wayne State
University (Ph.D.) in
Detroit, Michigan.

Dr. Peng's profile

     News & Views

Acupuncture is effective for low back
pain
Low back pain is 2nd leading reason of
clinic visits in US. Mannheimer et al. did
a meta-analysis that combines 33
randomized controlled trials to evaluate
acupuncture. Researchers concluded that
acupuncture effectively relieves chronic
low back pain. (Annual Internal Medicine
2005, 142:651-663).

Artificial sweeteners-do they bear a
carcinogenic risk?
Weihrauch & Diehl from the University of
Cologne (Germany) reviewed studies on
whether sweetener may cause cancers.
Data indicated no evidence that
aspartame is carcinogenic and saccharin
and cyclamate did not induce bladder
cancer in human. They suggested the
possible risk of artificial sweeteners to
induce cancer seems to be negligible
(Annals of Oncology 15:1460-1465, 2004).

Why acupuncture relieves the pain?
Dr. Ji-Sheng Han in a recent publication
summarized his studies and demonstrated
that electric acupuncture at different
frequency stimulated releases of internal
opioid proteins (peptides) - enkephalin,
endorphin, and endomorphin-of the brain.
These peptides are responsible to
alleviate the various pain symptoms (In
Neuroscience Letters 361:258, 2004).

Acupuncture improves immune
functions
Acupuncture has long been used for
improving general well-being. Joos S et
al showed such effect was achieved
through improving immune functions -
increased CD4 lymphocytes. The study
was done in a randomized controlled trial
of patients with allergic asthma (J Altern
Complement Med. 6:519-25, 2000.

How Acupuncture Works

Acupuncturist applies needles
on the special points distributed
alone meridians that link the
internal organs to the body
surface. By adjusting "Qi"-a
conceptual energy substance,
acupuncture modulates
functions of human body. In
modern research,
acupuncture has been shown
to modulate functions
of brain and many
other organs.

More on how
needle works

History of Acupuncture

Acupuncture is at least 3000
years old. Huang Di Nei Jing-the
bible of traditional Chinese
Medicine (200BC) has described
principals of acupuncture. Zhen
Jiu Jia Yi Jing (282 AD)
documented 14 meridians and
349 acupuncture points. Current
acupuncture practice is
mostly combining
ancient theories
and modern clinic
research.

More on history

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