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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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Acupuncture helpful in eating disorders

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Psychological / emotional
Acupuncture shows potential for improving the quality of life of people with eating disorders, according to a pilot study carried out in Australia.
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Tai chi helps beat depression in the elderly

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Tai chi, Geriatric
Combining a weekly Tai Chi Chih (TCC) exercise class with standard depression treatment leads to greater improvement in depression symptoms for elderly adults
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Acupuncture improves symptoms of ADHD

Categories: Psychological / emotional
Combining electro-acupuncture with behavioral therapy has a positive effect on reducing the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in pre-school children, according to a Chinese study. One hundred and eighty pre-school children with ADHD were randomly recruited into an experimental group, which received electro-acupuncture and behavioral therapy, or a control group, which rece ...
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Acupuncture improves autistic symptoms

Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics, Psychological / emotional, Autism
A short course of electro-acupuncture (EA) can improve specific functions in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), especially language comprehension and self-care ability. Fifty-five children with ASD were randomly assigned to an EA group or a sham electro-acupuncture (SEA) group. The EA group received electro-acupuncture at eight acupoints: Sishencong (M-HN-1), Yintang (M-HN-3), Neiguan P ...
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Anxious people prone to asthma

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Lifestyle research
People who are prone to anxiety are more likely to develop asthma, according to German investigators. The team used a questionnaire to evaluate tendencies to hysteria, anxiety and depression in 4010 adults without asthma. When they reassessed participants nine years later, they found that those who had high levels of neurosis were three times as likely to have developed asthma as those with low sc ...
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Tai chi improves psychological well-being

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Tai chi
A systematic review carried out by US researchers has found that tai chi appears to be associated with improvements in many aspects of psychological health. Forty studies totaling 3817 subjects were subjected to meta-analysis. The results showed that regular TC significantly increased psychological well-being, including reduction of stress, anxiety, and depression, enhanced mood and increased self ...
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Herbs as good as hormone therapy for menopause depression

Categories: Menopausal syndrome, Psychological / emotional
The Chinese herbal formula Geng Nian Le (GNL) can relieve the symptoms of perimenopausal depression and regulate women's hormone levels. Chinese scientists randomised 47 women to either a GNL group or a control group that received tibolone (a synthetic steroid hormone). After 12 weeks of treatment the depression scores in both groups decreased significantly, with no significant difference between ...
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HERB FORMULA MODERATES RISK-TAKING

Categories: Psychological / emotional
A Chinese medical formula designed to regulate impulsiveness has measurable effects on brain regions involved in risk-taking decision making. The fMRI study carried out in Hong Kong examined the neural correlates of the observed improvement in risk-taking behavior, following a 60-day course of a TCM formula specifically designed to regulate impulsiveness. Fourteen participants were randomly assign ...
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Acupuncture reduces dental anxiety

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Dental
Having acupuncture before dental treatment can reduce patient's anxiety, according to Swedish authors. Eight dentists (all members of the British Dental Acupuncture Society) submitted case reports. Twenty patients, all in their 40s, had experienced problems with dental anxiety for two to 30 years. All were assessed as moderately to severely anxious using the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), with a me ...
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