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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 supports pregnant women with depression

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Pregnancy & labour

Acupuncture could provide valuable support for women with antenatal depression, report Australian researchers ...

Acupuncture ineffective for reducing caesarean rate

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

A Cochrane Database Systematic review has found that using acupuncture for induction of labour does not reduce caesarean section rate, but may increase the readiness of the cervix for labour ...

Acupressure helps reduce caesarian rate and length of labour

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

Acupressure could have a role in reducing the rate of caesarean delivery and decreasing the duration of labour ...

Acupuncture reduces symptoms of threatened miscarriage

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

A new exploratory study from the obstetric acupuncture specialist Debra Betts and her Australian co-authors suggests that acupuncture can reduce the physical and emotional symptoms of threatened miscarriage ...

Acupressure relieves labour pain

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

Acupressure may be effective for reducing labour pain, reports an Iranian research team ...

Acupressure helps reduce epidurals and caesareans as part of integrative care

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

An integrative medicine programme that includes acupressure can significantly reduce epidural use and caesarean section rates when added to usual antenatal care ...

Chinese medicine improves reproductive hormone levels

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

Electro-acupuncture (EA) may improve reproductive hormone levels in patients with diminished ovarian reserve (DOR), according to preliminary research from China ...

Acupuncture adds benefit to standard care for pregnancy back pain

Categories: Pregnancy & labour, Back

A feasibility study carried out in the UK suggests that acupuncture can add benefit to standard care (SC) for back pain in pregnancy ...

No objective evidence of harm for points forbidden in pregnancy

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

A review of the scientific literature on needling at points historically considered to be 'forbidden' during pregnancy has found that there is no objective evidence of harm ...