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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.

Placebos work even without deception

Categories: Acupuncture research, Professional

A Harvard team including acupuncture scholar and researcher Ted Kaptchuk has found that placebo pills work even when patients know what they are taking.

Needling DU-20 increases cerebral blood flow

Categories: Acupuncture research

Acupuncture at Baihui DU-20 increases cerebral blood flow, according to a Japanese study.

Laser acupuncture produces specific brain activation patterns

Categories: Acupuncture research

Laser stimulation of acupoints leads to activation of specific brain regions, with different patterns of neural activity for each acupuncture point.

Sensations of placebo needling may evoke healing response

Categories: Acupuncture research

Patients experience enhanced touch sensations (ETS) as part of non-penetrating placebo acupuncture and these may be important in the ability of placebo needling to evoke a healing response.

Acupuncture helps with medically unexplained symptoms

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Acupuncture research

UK researchers have found acupuncture to have significant and sustained benefit for patients who frequently attend GP surgeries with medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS).

Superficial acupuncture has specific effects on the brain

Categories: Acupuncture research

Japanese style, superficial acupuncture (SA) has measurable and specific effects on the brain, according to Korean scientists.

REN-17 specifically affects heart's parasympathetic nerves

Categories: Heart / Cardiac, Acupuncture research

Japanese researchers have found strong evidence that the stimulation of Shanzhong REN-17 can specifically increase activity in the parasympathetic nerves of the heart.

Sham acupuncture interventions are associated with large non-specific effects

Categories: Acupuncture research

A German team has carried out a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials with the aim of investigating the size of non-specific effects associated with acupuncture interventions.

Acupuncture has greater analgesic effects than non-penetrating sham

Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research

Verum acupuncture has a significantly greater analgesic effect than non-penetrating sham acupuncture (NPSA), according to a group of European researchers (including Konrad Streitberger who developed the sham acupuncture needle).