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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 helps with chronic constipation

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

Eight weeks of electro-acupuncture (EA) treatment can increase the frequency of bowel movements in people suffering from chronic constipation ...

Herbal formula helps normalise gut function after surgery

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

Chinese research suggests that Xiang Bin granules (XB) can effectively promote the recovery of gastrointestinal function after gynaecological surgery ...

Herbal decoction improves liver function in hepatitis C

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders, Miscellaneous disorders

Taking a herbal decoction of Kuan-Sin-Yin (KSY) improves liver function and lipid metabolism in patients with chronic hepatitis C ...

Acupuncture helps with faecal incontinence

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

A Brazilian pilot study suggests that acupuncture can improve symptoms and quality of life in patients with faecal incontinence ...

Electroacupuncture reduces stool frequency as much as drugs in IBS

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

Electro-acupuncture (EA) is equivalent to drug treatment for reducing stool frequency in patients with diarrhoea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D) and functional diarrhoea (FD) ...

Acupuncture normalises brain connectivity in functional dyspepsia

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders, Acupuncture

Brain connectivity, which is altered in patients with functional dyspepsia (FD), appears to become more like that of healthy controls following acupuncture treatment ...

Electro-acupuncture and moxibustion benefit IBS by regulating expression of important brain-gut peptides

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

Both electro-acupuncture (EA) and moxibustion (MOX) treatments can improve gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) by reducing expression of important neuropeptides in the gut ...

Acupuncture reduces appendicitis pain in children

Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics, Digestive & Bowel disorders

Acupuncture has been shown to lessen pain and reduce underlying inflammation in paediatric patients with acute appendicitis ...

Chinese formula reduces constipation in IBS

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

A Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) formula has been demonstrated by an Australian research team to reduce the symptoms of constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-C) ...