The consumption of one standard drink will result in a peak in BAC within 35 to 45 minutes. A 150-pound person with normal liver function metabolizes about 7 to 14 grams of alcohol per hour, which is approximately 100 to 200 mg/kg of body weight per hour.
Acupuncture May Benefit Parkinson's Patients. Acupuncture may help relieve some of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, researchers from the University of Seoul, South Korea, reported in CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. It appears that acupuncture reactivates parts of the brain that have become too deactivated, the authors added.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Glossary Acupuncture and IBS. Acupuncture, frequently in conjunction with the use of Chinese herbal and/or food medicine, is an alternative medicine that restores health by balancing and improving the flow of chi, the body's natural energy flow, thus restoring proper function of muscles, nerves, vessels, glands, and organs. How can acupuncture help IBS? Both the National Institutes of Health Consensus Panel[3] and the World Health Organization,[4] using different criteria, have identified many different conditions as appropriate for acupuncture treatments, including several that directly pertain to IBS: Abdominal pain.