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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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Electro-acupuncture as effective as drugs for labour induction

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

A Brazilian group has shown that electro-acupuncture (EA) can be used to promote labour as efficiently as the prostaglandin analogue misoprostol, but with fewer obstetric complications.

Moxibustion shortens labour and reduces pain

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

Moxibustion at Sanyinjiao SP-6 may be able to markedly shorten the active phase of the first stage of labour and decrease pain due to uterine contractions, according to Taiwanese researchers.

Acupuncture helps with pain of episiotomy

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

Italian clinicians have successfully used acupuncture to relieve perineal pain after episiotomy

Electroacupuncture at Sanyinjiao Sp-6 helps with labour pain

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

A Chinese study has concluded that electroacupuncture (EA) at Sanyinjiao SP-6 is an effective way of decreasing labour pain

Acupuncture helps with pain of episiotomy

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

Italian clinicians have successfully used acupuncture to relieve perineal pain after episiotomy.

Acupuncture as breastfeeding support

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

An Italian pilot study has found that acupuncture can support women in maintaining breastfeeding for longer.

Sanyinjiao SP-6 acupressure helps with labour pain

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

Acupressure can reduce pain during the active phase of labour, according to a randomised controlled trial carried out by Swedish researchers in a public hospital in India. Two hundred and twenty-two women were randomised to receive one of three interventions: acupressure at Sanyinjiao Sp-6 on both legs during contractions over a 30-minute period (acupressure group), light touch at the same point o ...

Acupuncture not effective for post-term induction

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

A Danish team has concluded that acupuncture may not be effective for the induction of labour in post-term women. In a double-blind multicentre randomised controlled study, 125 healthy women with uneventful pregnancies at gestational week 41(+6) were randomised into two groups. The intervention group received acupuncture twice on the same day at Baihui DU-20, Zhiyin BL-67, Hegu L.I.-4 and Sanyinji ...

Acupuncture for labour pain

Categories: Pregnancy & labour, Pregnancy & Labour

Current evidence from RCTs does not support the use of acupuncture for controlling labour pain, according to a systematic review from Korean authors. Ten RCTs involving 2038 women were included. Meta-analysis showed that acupuncture was not superior to minimal acupuncture at one hour and at two hours. Patients reported significantly reduced pain by 4% and 6% during electroacupuncture (EA) treatmen ...