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Research Archive
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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 ...
Acupuncture helps with pain relief after heart surgery
Categories: Heart / Cardiac, Post-operative
Acupuncture can lead to significant pain reduction and improvement in lung function in patients who have had sternotomy for heart surgery.
Acupuncture improves paediatric asthma
Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics, Respiratory disorders
A prospective, randomised trial carried out in Denmark has found that acupuncture can reduce asthma symptoms and medication use in preschool children.
Acupuncture more effective for knee osteoarthritis
Acupuncture should be considered to be one of the most effective treatments for short-term alleviation of knee pain from osteoarthritis (OA), according to a network meta-analysis of randomised controlled studies by UK authors.
Empathetic consultations soothe patients' pain
Categories: Acupuncture research, Professional
Patient-centred interviewing techniques don't just put patients more at ease, they can change the brain's stress response and increase pain tolerance, according to an American research team.
Mindfulness can ease inflammation
Categories: Qigong, Lifestyle research
People with chronic inflammatory conditions - such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease - which are made worse by stress could benefit from practicing mindfulness meditation, according to a study by US scientists. The new study was designed to pinpoint the benefits specifically due to mindfulness meditation practice, by controlling for the effect of other therapeutic mechanisms, ...
As tigers go extinct, Chinese medicine switches to lions
Categories: Herbal medicine, General discussion
As tiger populations in the wild continue to dwindle towards extinction, it seems that attention is turning towards lion bones as replacements for the Chinese medicine trade.
Tai chi improves neuromuscular function in the elderly
Categories: Tai chi
Tai chi is as effective as proprioception exercises for improving neuromuscular function in elderly people, according to Chinese researchers. Sixty elderly subjects were randomly allocated into three groups. For 16 consecutive weeks subjects participated in tai chi (TC), proprioception exercises (PE) and were compared to a control group who did no structured exercise. At the end of the interventio ...
Tai chi and yoga can reduce symptoms of prenatal depression
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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