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Research Archive

Welcome to our Chinese medicine and acupuncture research news pages. We add to the content of these pages continuously as more research news comes in. Browse through the complete archive below or use the category links on the right.

Please note that the most twenty recent research archive items are free to view but access to the thousands of items in the archive require a journal subscription.

Electro-acupuncture and moxibustion benefit Crohn's via different brain mechanisms

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders, Acupuncture research

Chinese researchers have shown that electro-acupuncture and moxibustion treatment result in similar improvements in clinical outcomes, but different changes in brain connectivity in Crohn's disease patients ...

Needle retention time doesn't affect benefits of acupuncture for cancer patients

Categories: Cancer, Acupuncture research

Needle retention time does not affect the perceived benefits of acupuncture for oncology patients, according to research carried out in Australia ...

Acupuncture could help solve America's opioid crisis

Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research

Acupuncture could play a significant role in combating the opioid epidemic that is raging in the USA ...

Biggest ever acupuncture dataset proves that acupuncture works for chronic pain

Categories: Acupuncture research

An update of the landmark 2012 study by the international Acupuncture Trialists' Collaboration reinforces the evidence that acupuncture is effective for the treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain and that its benefits cannot be explained solely in ...

Analgesic effects of ear acupuncture may be due to vagus nerve stimulation

Categories: Acupuncture research

The analgesic effects of auricular acupuncture may be explained by stimulation of the auricular branch of the vagal nerve ...

Electro-acupuncture increases blood flow to prefrontal cortex

Categories: Acupuncture research

Electro-acupuncture (EA) applied to the trigeminal nerve area can reduce heart rate (HR), and increase parasympathetic nervous activity and cerebral blood flow ...

'Deqi' leads to greater period pain reduction

Categories: Gynaecology, Acupuncture research

Dysmenorrhoea patients that experience a ‘deqi’ needling sensation demonstrate larger reductions in pain relative to those who do not, according to a Chinese study ...

Acupuncture Now Foundation submits position paper to US FDA

Categories: Acupuncture research

The Acupuncture Now Foundation (a non-profit organisation dedicated to educating the public, healthcare providers and health policymakers about acupuncture) has submitted an extensive document to the Food and Drug Administration ...

Cohort study supports lung-large intestine link

Categories: Acupuncture research

A large cohort study from Taiwan appears to confirm the association between the lungs and large intestine suggested by Chinese medical theory ...