Western medicine has been skeptical about the traditional energy
maps of acupuncture, tai chi, and yoga, since no one had ever found physical evidence of nadis and meridians.
From the studies which had both verum and sham
acupuncture groups: 3a) greater activation
of verum
acupuncture points than baseline (verum > rest), 3b) greater deactivation
of verum
acupuncture points than baseline (rest > verum), 3c) greater activation
of sham
acupuncture points than baseline (sham > rest), 3d) greater deactivation
of sham
acupuncture points than baseline (rest > sham), 3e) comparison ALE
map of greater activation
of verum than sham
acupuncture relative to rest («verum > rest» - «sham > rest»), 3f) comparison ALE
map of greater deactivation
of verum than sham
acupuncture relative to rest («rest > verum» - «rest > sham»).
Furthermore, we generated on a descriptive level
map (Figure 3)
of 18
acupuncture points from 46 publications, which reported pre-post data on Talairach coordinates.