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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.
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Blood flow changes due to acupuncture follow traditional point indications
Categories: Acupuncture research
Japanese investigators have used colour doppler ultrasound imaging (CDI) to non-invasively evaluate haemodynamic changes caused by acupuncture.
Needling Hegu L.I.-4 on one side stimulates contralateral point
Categories: Acupuncture research
Blood perfusion at the acupoint Hegu L.I.-4 increases when the contralateral Hegu L.I.-4 is stimulated by acupuncture, according to Chinese team.
Methodological guidance for comparative effectiveness research
Categories: Acupuncture research
An international team, consisting of acupuncturists, doctors, patients, researchers and medical insurance company representatives has produced a consensus document aimed at those conducting comparative effectiveness research (CER) trials in acupunctu ...
Acupuncture for chronic pain is good value for money
Categories: Acupuncture research
Acupuncture is cost-effective for the treatment of chronic pain, according to a systematic review carried out by UK researchers.
Acupuncture has clinically relevant benefits in chronic conditions
Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Acupuncture research
A UK-based study looking at acupuncture carried out in a busy GP practice by an experienced traditional acupuncturist, found that it resulted in clinically relevant improvements in patients
Acupuncture at Zusanli ST-36 increases efficiency of functional brain networks
Categories: Neurological, Acupuncture research
Using fMRI, Chinese researchers have shown that the organisation of functional brain networks is altered after acupuncture and that these alterations exhibit point specificity.
Moxibustion fights chronic fatigue through 'antioxidant' activity
Categories: Fatigue, Acupuncture research
Researchers from South Korea have found clinical evidence for an anti-fatigue effect of indirect moxibustion and suggest that the effect could be because the technique acts like an antioxidant. An RCT was performed with 44 patients who had idiopathic chronic fatigue. Subjects were treated with either moxibustion (indirect moxibustion on Guanyuan REN-4 and Shenque REN-8) or a placebo procedure, thr ...
Evidence for acupuncture point specificity
Categories: Acupuncture research
A review article from American authors focuses on clinical and laboratory studies supporting the existence of point specificity in acupuncture, but also addresses studies that do not support this concept.
The 'neural acupuncture unit'
Categories: Acupuncture research
The concept of the ‘neural acupuncture unit’ (NAU) has been put forward by an international team of authors as a new way of interpreting the effects and mechanisms of acupuncture.
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