Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Meditation Overcome Powerful than Pain Medication

Meditasi ampuh atasi rasa sakit daripada obat. (Foto: Getty Images)
Meditation Overcome Powerful than Pain Medication

Analgesics or painkillers are often consumed by people to relieve pain or dizziness. Now you do not need to take painkillers, with meditation can relieve pain.

During this meditation is known to make people become more calm. According to a new study, meditation was able to give the effect of pain relievers to the brain, exceeding even morphine.

Recent research conducted Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, North Carolina, United States, has reached the conclusion after conducting a small study involving 15 volunteers. None of them had ever engaged in meditation before, so they really concentrate on your breathing and let go of distracting thoughts, and emotions.

Then the participants were placed in the right leg devices that can trigger pain. Brain activity of participants were tested using ASL MRI (arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging) before and after meditation.

But to understand how the brains of volunteers has had the courage to react to all this, the professionals using magnetic resonance imaging. Apparently after 80 minutes of meditation on the brain activity, is responsible for identifying the localization and intensity of pain decreased significantly. So that was launched from Genius Beauty, Tuesday (17/05/2011).

Study's lead author, Dr. Fadel Zeidan said, "We found that pain intensity decreased by 40 percent, and the inconvenience caused by it by 57 percent. Meanwhile, morphine and other painkillers yield an average of 25 percent."

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