The Holistic Effects of Acupuncture Treatment

Table 3

Summary of experimental studies of acupuncture articles on Metabolomics technologies.

Author/year	Treatment manner	Disease	Acupoint	Testing technique	Upregulation metabolite	Downregulation metabolite
Wu et al./2011 [52]	Electroacupuncture	Aging	GV 20 (Baihui); KI1 (Yongquan)	NMR	Lactate, DMA, choline, and TMAO	N.A.
Wu et al./2010 [53]	Electroacupuncture	Functional; dyspepsia (FD)	BL21 (Weishu); CV12	NMR	VLDL/LDL	NAc
Tang et al./2009 [54]	Electroacupuncture	Aging	GV20; KI1	NMR	saturated fatty acid; triglyceride	Choline; phosphatidylcholine; unsaturated fatty acid
Wu et al./2008 [55]	Electroacupuncture	Chronic emotional; stress	GV20; SP6	NMR	Nsaturated fatty acid; phosphatidylcholin	Glucose; VLDL