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Research Archive

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 1135 to 1143 of 2280 total

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Needling Taixi KID-3 increases activity in memory networks of impaired brains

Categories: Acupuncture research
Acupuncture at Taixi KID-3 can enhance activity in brain areas associated with memory in patients suffering from mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
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Acupuncture at REN-4 and REN-12 affects brain's emotion and pain networks

Categories: Acupuncture research
A Chinese fMRI study has found that stimulation of the acupuncture points Guanyuan REN-4 and Zhongwan REN-12 has an effect on functional brain networks associated with emotional and cognitive regulation.
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Acupuncture at Zusanli ST-36 and Neiguan P-6 affects gastric motility

Categories: Acupuncture research
Manual stimulation of the acupoints Zusanli ST-36 and Neiguan P-6 can influence gastric myoelectrical and cardiac activities in healthy volunteers.
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Acupuncture at Hegu L.I.-4 decreases pain sensitivity of jaw

Categories: Acupuncture research
Electro-acupuncture at Hegu L.I.-4 can specifically decrease the pain sensitivity of the mandibular area, according to Japanese researchers.
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Dermal spread of breast cancer following acupuncture

Categories: Cancer, Acupuncture research
A case report from Taiwan warns that direct puncture of a metastatic lymph node by an acupuncture needle has led to cutaneous spread of the tumour.
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Proof that acupuncture works for chronic pain

Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research
An international collaboration, involving some of the UK's top acupuncture researchers, has provided definitive evidence that acupuncture is effective for chronic pain.
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Malaria becoming resistant to artemisinin

Categories: Herb research, Fever/infectious diseases
Evidence is emerging that the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is becoming resistant to the drug artemisinin.
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Herbal medicines are activated by gut microbes

Categories: Herb research
A Nature Outlook supplement focusing on traditional Asian medicine includes a number of interesting articles, including one on how Chinese herbal medicines interact synergistically with microbes in the human gut.
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Classical herb combinations prove more effective

Categories: Herb research
Chinese herbal medicine theory holds that herbs in a prescription potentise each other and that the doses described in classical prescriptions are crucial to their effect.
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