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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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Tai chi can reshape the brain

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Tai chi
Chinese scientists report that long-term tai chi practice can induce regional structural changes in practitioners
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Acupuncture treats sexual side-effects of antidepressants

Categories: Psychological / emotional
Acupuncture has a potential role in treating the sexual side-effects of antidepressant medications, suggest researchers from Canada who carried out a pilot study.
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Acupuncture improves sleep for psychiatric patients

Categories: Psychological / emotional
A small study from Hong Kong has found that acupuncture may improve sleep quality in elderly patients with dementia.
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Electro-acupuncture as effective as drugs for depression

Categories: Psychological / emotional
Electro-acupuncture (EA) is as effective for depression as the drug fluoxetine, according to Chinese researchers. Seventy-five patients with depressive disorder (DD) were treated with either fluoxetine or acupuncture five times per week for six weeks. EA and fluoxetine were found to have similar curative effects, but EA had a faster onset of action, better response rate and better improvement rate ...
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Tai chi and yoga can reduce symptoms of prenatal depression

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Pregnancy & labour, Tai chi
A US team reports that practising a combination of tai chi and yoga can reduce prenatal depression, anxiety and sleep disturbances in pregnant women.
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Qigong improves quality of life during radiation therapy

Categories: Cancer, Psychological / emotional, Qigong
Researchers from the US have found that qigong practice can reduce depressive symptoms and improve quality of life in women undergoing radiotherapy for breast cancer. Ninety-six women with breast cancer were randomised to a qigong group or a waitlist control group. Women in the qigong group attended five 40-minute classes each week during their five-to-six week course of radiation therapy. Patient ...
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Encouraging evidence for acupuncture in the treatment of PTSD

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Psychological / emotional
The evidence for the effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is encouraging, conclude Korean authors.
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Acupuncture at Yintang decreases pre-op anxiety

Categories: Psychological / emotional
A Turkish research team has found that a single session of acupuncture at Yintang (M-HN-3) can reduce preoperative anxiety in adult surgical patients.
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Acupuncture enhances effect of antidepressants

Categories: Psychological / emotional
A study by Chinese researchers indicates that acupuncture can accelerate the clinical response to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and prevent symptom aggravation in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). In a six-week randomised controlled trial with four-week follow-up, 160 patients with MDD were randomly assigned to receive paroxetine (PRX) alone or in combination with 18 ...
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