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Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar
Print version ISSN 0138-6557On-line version ISSN 1561-3046
Abstract
CABANA SALAZAR, José Antonio and RUIZ REYES, Roberto. Analgesia por acupuntura. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2004, vol.33, n.1. ISSN 0138-6557.
The most important characteristic of acupuncture, a millennary technique widely used in the daily medical practice, is the powerful analgesic effect that it produces and that is the basis of acupunctural surgical analgesia. Therefore, it was made a review of the main theories that from the point of view of the western medicine try to explain it.
Keywords : ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; PAIN [therapy]; MEDICINE, CHINESE, TRADITIONAL; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY.