Brain Activities Responding to Acupuncture at ST36 (zusanli) in Healthy Subjects: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Task-Based fMRI Studies
Huang H, Yue X, Huang X, Long W, Kang S, Rao Y, Zeng J, Zuo J, Wang L, Li H, Wang Y, Qiu S, Zhao W · Frontiers in Neurology · 2022 July 22
DOI 10.3389/fneur.2022.930753
Objective
To summarize the current evidence of task-based fMRI studies of acupuncture at ST36 in healthy individuals with the seed-based d mapping (SDM) technique and functional network mapping and decoding analysis.
Conclusions
Acupuncture at ST36 in healthy individuals positively activates the opercular part of right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG.R), left superior temporal gyrus (STG.L), and right median cingulate/paracingulate gyri (MCG.R). The left olfactory cortex may exhibit positive needle retention time-dependent activities.
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