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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.

Please note that the most twenty recent research archive items are free to view but access to the thousands of items in the archive require a journal subscription.

Items 1018 to 1026 of 2280 total

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Acupuncture reduces allergic rhinitis symptoms

Categories: Respiratory disorders, Allergies
For sufferers of seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR), acupuncture treatment can lead to a modest improvement in disease-specific quality of life and can reduce antihistamine use, compared with either sham acupuncture or the medication cetrizine. In a multi-centre randomised trial, German researchers randomised 422 people with SAR to receive acupuncture plus cetirizine, sham (minimal needling) acupunc ...
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Acupuncture with deqi can improve muscle recovery in Bell's palsy

Categories: Neurological, Acupuncture research, Nose and mouth
Acupuncture that elicits the sensation of deqi can improve facial muscle recovery, disability and quality of life for patients with Bell’s palsy. In a randomised controlled trial, Chinese researchers compared the efficacy of weak versus strong acupuncture stimulation in a group of 338 patients presenting with unilateral facial-nerve weakness within 168 hours of symptom onset. Patients were r ...
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Moxa safe and effective for turning breech babies

Categories: Gynaecology
A large study carried out in Spain has shown that moxibustion at Zhiyin BL-67 is an effective and safe way to correct non-vertex presentation when used between 33 and 35 weeks of gestation.
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Acupuncture is the top therapy for arthritis

Categories: Arthritis , Miscellaneous
Acupuncture is the most effective complementary therapy for treating osteoarthritis, and also scores highly for other chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions, according to a report by the charity Arthritis Research UK. The report summarises current evidence for practitioner-based complementary therapies that are commonly used to treat rheumatoid and osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia and low back pain. ...
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Walnuts improve sperm health

Categories: Male disorders, Diet research
In Chinese herbal medicine, walnuts are ascribed the function of tonifying the Kidneys which, among other things, govern sexual function and fertility.
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Milk fats bad for good bacteria

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders, Diet research
Saturated milk fats in the modern Western diet could be responsible for gut problems such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colitis, according to American researchers.
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Poor oral hygiene linked with cancer

Categories: Cancer, Lifestyle research
A study from Scandinavia has found a direct link between poor oral hygiene and cancer. People with the highest amount of dental plaque were nearly twice as likely to have cancer; in women, it was most likely to be breast cancer.
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Exercise protects against brain shrinkage

Categories: Lifestyle research
Remaining physically active in old age may help prevent the brain from shrinking, a process which has been linked to declining cognitive function. Scottish researchers, who followed a longitudinal cohort of 691 people, starting at age 70, found that physical exercise not only protected against such age-related brain changes, but also had more a more pronounced effect than mentally and socially sti ...
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Reactions to today's stress predict future health

Categories: Lifestyle research
Contrary to popular perception, stressors don't cause health problems. It is how people react to stressors that determines whether they will suffer negative health consequences, according to American investigators.
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