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surprise you. i don t know, doc, what do you think? you know, the whole question of acupuncture has been debated over the years. i have told you on this show, that in 1978, i think it was, when i went to china, i observed heart surgery performed without any anesthesia, on a woman who simply had an acupuncture needle put into her ear. to see that woman s chest split open, while she was smiling at us, watching the operation, just with an acupuncture needle, convinced me that there is something to acupuncture. not for everybody, but, for certain people. now, we have these newer techniques, called the functional mris, which are able to visualize, document what is happening in the brain.
and, there was a very recent study done this week, on somebody who had some pain and who was treated with acupuncture and they took the mri, and they were able to see within the brain the changes in the brain cells, responding to the pain. then, when the acupuncture needle was placed, they saw further changes in that area, where the pain reflecting the modification, the reduction of the pain. so, acupuncture does work. we re never sure, we haven t been sure how it works but, my message today is this: if you have a chronic pain syndrome, and are receiving acupuncture and think it helps you, don t listen to the people who tell you you are puts, it is a placebo effect, whatever. acupuncture does work and, this test that i demonstration