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Acupuncture Analgesia: A Six-Factor Theory

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Pain

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During recent years, physicians from the United States, Canada, and England have visited China and have observed the successful use of acupuncture to relieve surgical pain (Brown, 1972; Capperauld, 1972; Capperauld, Cooper and Saltoun, 1972; Dimond, 1971; Hamilton, Brown, Hollington and Rutherford, 1972; Jain, 1972a, 1972b; Shute, 1972; Tkach, 1972). These eyewitness accounts have produced widespread interest in acupuncture analgesia as indicated by many discussions in the popular press and also by a series of papers in medical journals (Chisholm, 1972; Liu, 1972; Mann, 1972; Matsumoto, 1972; Taub, 1972; Toyama and Nishizawa, 1972).

This paper was presented at the Second Western Hemisphere Conference on Acupuncture, Kirlian Photography and the Human Aura, 1973, and is being published in a book based on that conference. It is republished here with permission of the authors and publisher. Work on this paper was supported by a research grant (MH-19152) from the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Public Health Service. Early versions of this paper were presented by J. F. Chaves at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Psychological Association, Boston, 12 May 1972, and at the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Boston, October, 1972.

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Chaves, J.F., Barber, T.X. (1976). Acupuncture Analgesia: A Six-Factor Theory. In: Weisenberg, M., Tursky, B. (eds) Pain. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2304-4_5

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