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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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Acupuncture for gastrointestinal disorders

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

Researchers from Hong Kong suggest that electro-acupuncture can alter the activation of neural pathways for pain perception in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients

Acupuncture improves dyspepsia

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

A Chinese study has found that acupuncture treatment can significantly improve symptoms and quality of life for functional dyspepsia (FD) patients and that this correlates with specific changes in brain activity.

Acupuncture provides additional benefit in IBS

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

A large trial of acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has shown that the treatment has significant benefits.

Acupuncture improves pain relief after haemorrhoid surgery

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders, Miscellaneous

Acupuncture appears to be an effective adjunct to conventional analgesia for patients recovering from haemorrhoidectomy.

Meta-analysis of sham-controlled studies reveals no benefit for acupuncture in IBS

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

A meta-analysis of the results from RCTs of acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has found no benefit of acupuncture on IBS symptom severity or IBS-related quality of life compared to sham acupuncture controls.

Herbal formula shows action against inflammatory bowel disease

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

A Chinese herbal formula developed from a combination of two traditional Chinese herbal formulations - Tong Xie Yao Fang and Zhong Man Fen Xiao Wan - has been shown to have potent anti-inflammatory activities in immune cells in vitro as well as in th ...

Acupuncture effective for dyspepsia

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

A large randomised controlled trial carried out in China has found acupuncture to be an effective treatment for functional dyspepsia.

Sophora root as good as drugs for ulcerative colitis

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

A Chinese herbal medicine containing Ku Shen (Radix Sophorae flavescentis) has been shown to be as effective as the anti-inflammatory drug mesalamine for treating ulcerative colitis (UC).

Vegetarian diet protects against diverticular disease

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders, Diet research

A UK study has shown that vegetarians are a third less likely to suffer from diverticular disease than meat eaters.