Endorphins: Conclusion and References Endorphins act to co-ordinate many of physiological functions to alter the general state of the body, for example, it can happen trough inhibiting sympathetic nervous system tone (19). As in many other cases of regulation but not direct control, endorphins tend to return a physiological function to normal: they usually increase body temperature, but decrease it during fever or during menopausal hot flashes (101, 57, 53). They decrease blood pressure, only if it is elevated, not in normals (10, 104, 86). Endorphins have been shown to fulfill universal adaptogenous role," ...in regulation of precise conformity among homeostasis, behavior, and variable environment " ( 88). We recruited all this scientific literature reinforcement to advocate for only two of healing modalities that even after several decades of victorious (though geographically rather local) use can be still considered emerging. 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