The Treatment of Persistent Yawning with Acupuncture Journal Articles

abstract

• Persistent and excessive yawning (greater than 1 to 4 yawns/minute) is a pathological process associated with a variety of conditions including central nervous system disorders, opiate withdrawal and drug side effects. This report describes a patient with a brain tumour who presented with persistent excessive yawning. She was successfully treated with medical acupuncture. A possible mechanism involving the autonomic nervous system is discussed.

authors

• Wong, Raimond
• Sagar, Stephen

status

• published 

publication date

• December 2000

has subject area

• 1104 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (FoR)
• Complementary & Alternative Medicine (Science Metrix)

published in

• Acupuncture in Medicine  Journal

keywords

• 42 Health Sciences
• 4208 Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine
• Complementary and Integrative Health
• Mental health
• Neurosciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1136/aim.18.2.124

start page

• 124

end page

• 126

volume

• 18

issue

• 2