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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.

Acupuncture for IBS/2

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

A sizeable trial investigating the ability of acupuncture to relieve symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has found that both real and sham acupuncture resulted in significant symptom reduction.

Acupuncture for IBS

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

A small randomised, sham/placebo-controlled pilot study assessing the effect of individualised TCM acupuncture and moxibustion (AcuMoxa) treatment on symptom control of IBS patients found that it showed promise as a treatment.

Acupuncture for faecal incontinence

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

Italian researchers have carried out a pilot study to investigate the effect of acupuncture on faecal incontinence.

Acupuncture better than more heartburn drugs

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

If proton pump inhibitors fail to control the symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, current standard management is to double the drug dose, despite limited therapeutic gain.

Acupuncture for gastrointestinal diseases

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

A systematic review has assessed the evidence for the effectiveness of acupuncture treatment in gastrointestinal diseases.

Acupuncture for ulcerative colitis

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

In a prospective, randomised, controlled clinical trial, 29 patients with mild to moderately active ulcerative colitis were randomly assigned to receive either traditional acupuncture and moxibustion, or sham acupuncture consisting of superficial nee ...

ACUPUNCTURE & THE GASTRIC SPHINCTER

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

Inappropriate relaxation of the muscular lower oesophageal sphincter (LES) is associated with gastric reflux and heartburn.

ACUPUNCTURE & CROHN'S DISEASE

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

In a single blind controlled trial of 51 patients with mild to moderately active Crohn's disease, 27 were randomly assigned to receive traditional acupuncture, and 24 to receive sham acupuncture at non-points.

ACUPUNCTURE & COLONOSCOPY

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

In order to determine whether acupuncture can reduce the discomfort and anxiety of colonoscopy, 30 patients were randomly assigned to receive acupuncture, sham acupuncture, or no acupuncture.