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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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Not all placebos are created equal

Categories: Acupuncture research
The placebo effects of different therapies are not identical, and patients who respond to one type of placebo may not respond to others, according to research from the USA. In a crossover study, researchers tested the analgesic effects of four treatments on pain sensitivity in 48 healthy volunteers. The four treatments were placebo pills, sham acupuncture, verum electro-acupuncture and a no-treatm ...
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Acupuncturists have different brains

Categories: Acupuncture research
Acupuncturists outperform non-acupuncturists (NA) in tests of behavioural skills associated with their profession and this is reflected in structural differences in their brains.
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Better to miss the point than to miss the channel

Categories: Acupuncture research
Needling non-acupoints that lie on an acupuncture channel has a stronger effect on blood perfusion (BP) in the surrounding tissue than needling non-acupoints that do not line on a channel.
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Cordyceps extract switches off inflammatory genes

Categories: Herb research
Cordycepin, one of the active components of the Chinese herb cordyceps (Dong Chong Xia Cao), reduces the production of inflammatory gene products in cultured human airway smooth muscle cells - the cells which contract during an asthma attack.
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Herbal medicine for inflammatory bowel disease

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders
Randomised controlled trials of herbal therapy for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) show encouraging results, but studies remain limited and heterogenous. Authors from Hong Kong analysed 21 RCTs including a total of 1484 subjects. For ulcerative colitis (UC), aloe vera gel, wheat grass juice, Andrographis paniculata extract (Chuan Xin Lian) and topical Xi Lei San (administered by ...
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Needle rotation and sensation are important for acupuncture effect

Categories: Acupuncture research
Needle rotation and sensation play an important role in the effects of acupuncture, Korean investigators report.
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Organ specific effects of acupuncture points

Categories: Acupuncture research
Japanese researchers have found evidence that acupuncture points have specific actions on the autonomic functions of particular internal organs.
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Acupuncture for assisted reproductive technology

Categories: Infertility
There is no evidence that acupuncture improves live birth or pregnancy rates in assisted conception, according to an update of a Cochrane Database systematic review.
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Is ATP the key to acupuncture's effects?

Categories: Acupuncture research
A British neuroscientist has proposed that a novel extracellular signalling system, based on adenosine 5’-triphosphate (ATP), is the mechanism underlying the effects of acupuncture.
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