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It is not surprising to me that the researchers found "…patients who received acupuncture enjoyed a more comfortable recovery from their surgery than those receiving anti-sickness medication." I’ve been saying this for years but many times my words fall on deaf ears. I had one patient who was receiving acupuncture treatment for neck pain 8 weeks prior to his scheduled major neck surgery. The surgeon could not believe it when the patient declined to take pain medication after the surgery. I attribute his quick and pain less recovery to the fact his acupuncture treatments kept his neck out of spasm one less problem the surgeon had to contend with. The neck being in a normal position, muscles relaxed, not pulling the head left or right, means less trauma from the surgery. The results of the of the Duke study were published on Sept. 22, 2004, in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia. You can read the entire Duke study via the link below: I had some major problems with the choice of treatment used by the researchers in the Duke study. For example the use of electric stimulation on the acupuncture point PC6. I would never use electric stimulation on PC 6. The median nerve runs right past PC 6 on the arm. . The study would have probable had even better and more accurate results had they employed the traditional treatment for nausea. To conclude that PC6 has pain relieving properties is also arguable, especially since electric stimulation was used, and is known to have pain relieving qualities. Duke should have done the study using acupuncture needles with no electric stimulation. To use electric stimulation on the point PC 6 shows a lack of experience. The research would have been more valuable had the tradition treatment for nausea been selected. Finally, until the researchers recognize, understand, that a needle being inserted into the body causes a completely different sequence of events then for example heat, electricity, cold, and pressure, they will be missing the point!    DURHAM, N.C. – …”researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found that acupuncture is more effective at reducing nausea and vomiting after major breast surgery than the leading medication.” “…In conducting the trial, the researchers also demonstrated that the pressure point they stimulated possesses previously unknown pain-killing properties.” As an acupuncturist this is not surprising to me. Many cases of nausea resolve itself on the acupuncture table. It’s one of those conditions you consider absolute, even though nothing is absolute in medicine, when someone asks can you treat nausea my response is “yes” because my personal success rate is so high.   http://www.dukemednews.duke.edu/news/article.php?id=8166