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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 interrupts cluster headaches

Categories: Headache & migraine

Acupuncture can be used to interrupt cluster headaches (CH), according to a case series from Italy. Four patients with CH were treated with acupuncture as a preventive treatment, either combined with the calcium channel blocking drug verapamil, or al ...

Acupuncture decreases activity of enzyme associated with migraine attacks

Categories: Headache & migraine

Turkish researchers have demonstrated a clinically relevant decrease in serum matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) activity in patients with migraine treated with acupuncture ...

Acupuncture reduces migraine pain via brain's pain system

Categories: Headache & migraine, Miscellaneous disorders, Acupuncture research

Chinese scientists have shown that needling active acupoints in migraine patients reduces pain and affects key disease-affected brain regions involving pain.

Lasting benefits of acupuncture for migraine

Categories: Headache & migraine

The results of a prospective interventional study carried out by American researchers suggests that acupuncture has persistent beneficial effects on both the frequency and intensity of migraines.

Acupuncture outperforms migraine drug

Categories: Headache & migraine

Acupuncture has been shown to outperform the drug valproic acid in reducing the pain intensity of migraine headaches, without any of the adverse effects associated with drug therapy.

NICE recommends acupuncture for headache

Categories: Headache & migraine

NICE (the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has published new clinical guidelines on the treatment of headaches.

Acupuncture affects pain processing in migraineurs

Categories: Headache & migraine

Chinese researchers have found traditional acupuncture to be more effective for pain reduction in migraine sufferers than a control acupuncture treatment and have correlated this effect to differences in activity in pain-related brain regions.

Acupuncture helps with acute migraines

Categories: Headache & migraine

A Chinese group has found that acupuncture is significantly superior to sham for the treatment of acute migraines.

Acupuncture and sham equally effective for migraines

Categories: Headache & migraine, Acupuncture research

Acupuncture and sham acupuncture appear equally effective in preventing migraines, according to a large clinical study published by an international research team, although real acupuncture may have longer-lasting effects.