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Interim Clinical Results on Acupuncture in Cancer-Treatment
Notes from my Casebook
 
Are Simeon Thoresen, DVM
Gisleröd Gård, Tinghaugveien 435, 3175 Ramnes, Norway
arethore@online.no

“Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is
ready to distort the truth. Intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence
of his sense in order to justify his logic”.
Fjodor Dostojevskij

 
 
Introduction
Several, if not all, bodily functions and processes are controlled or governed by other processes or functions, called “feed-back-mechanisms”. This is seen on many levels as;
 

• The blood-circulation, which controls activity of several functions as;
  
  • much blood will stimulate the function
  • less blood will sedate the function.
• The nervous system, which of course controls many functions in the body, especially through the;
  
  • Sympatic nervous system
  • Parasympatic nervous system.
• The mind of man, which has also many controlling aspects, as for example seen in placebo (Ekeland 2000).
• The production of controlling molecules, like endorphins and other peptides which control several bodily functions (Pohorille 2003).

 
This control may be seen as;

• Molecular control, as when androgens like aldosteron control the cell cycle transitions in the prostate (Cinar 2001)
• Genetic control, as when siRNA-fragments control gen-expression in eukaryotic cells (Lewis 2002)
• Proteomic control, as when proteolytic hydrolysis via caspase enzymes control cell cycle by introducing apoptosis (Miller 1997)
• Cellular control, as when osteoblasts regulate osteoclast formation through cell-to-cell contact with hemopoietic progenitor cells (Udagawa 2003).

 
Lack of, or a breakdown of the described controlling systems may be seen on the;

• molecular level, as when carcinogenic compounds like N-nitrosodiethamolamine, induce cancer from the molecular level by forming 2-hydroxyethyl-DNA base-adducts (Loeppky 2002)
• genetic level, as mutations in the promoter element of the p53 gene which is often found in cancer patients (Chumakov  1993)
• proteomic level, as Arg-249-Met mutation in the p53 protein lead to uncontrolled cell-cycle, leading to cancer (Deppert 1994)
• cellular level, as human T-cell Laeukemia/Lymphotropic virus type 1 is a virus that induces cancer (Johnson 2001).

 
Current conventional treatment of cancer relies mainly on radical surgery, cytotoxic chemotherapy, radiation treatment and attempts to boost immune function by chemical immunostimulation, administering biotechnologically produced specific antibodies, or purified interferon, etc. Research on gene-based therapy is in the early stages. Many of these treatments induce severe adverse effects in the patient, and some of these effects can compromise normal organic function, and lead directly to the death of the patient. For example, some patients given cytotoxic chemotherapy develop myocardial hepatic or kidney lesions that can seriously compromise their lives.
 
Therefore I will, in this article, argue that it is possible to treat patients suffering with cancer by stimulating the adequate control mechanisms, stimulating the specific and individual and by such control cancer with the sole use of acupuncture.
 
The potential of acupuncture in affecting the immunological system has been shown (Kim et al, 2002, Rogers et al, 1992). These studies report substantial increases of T-lymphocyte proliferation, increase in NK-cell activity, activation of the complementary system, heat-stable mitogenic humoral factors and increase in OKT4 cells. The proofs of effect from acupuncture at the physiological and biochemical level have been very convincing, and acupuncture has for that reason been combined with chemotherapy in cancer treatment trials (Shen & Glapsy, 2001). The specific points that were stimulated in these studies, were LI04, LI11, ST36, SP06, SP10, PC06 and GB39 (respectively in the in the meridians of the large intestine (LI), stomach (ST), spleen (SP), pericardium (PC) and gallbladder (GB)).
 
Written before 200 BC, the Yellow Emperor’s Internal Medicine Classic (Huangdi Neijing), was and still is the basic text for practitioners of acupuncture. It described the fundamental theories of Change; Yin-Yang; Five Elements; Qi-Xue (Energy and Blood); Jing-Luo-Mai (different types of meridians) relationships; meridian-organ relationships; external and internal pathogenic factors, the interaction of the body-mind-spirit, etc. (Henry C. Lu, 1978)

 
 
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