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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 1189 to 1197 of 2280 total

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Herbs better than drugs for infertility

Categories: Infertility
A systematic review of the use of traditional Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) in the management of female infertility has concluded that it can significantly improve the chances of pregnancy, compared with Western medical (WM) drug therapy or IVF.
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Extraordinary research findings on a classical Chinese herbal prescription

Categories: Herbal medicine
Visit the journal's Facebook page to see details of some wonderful new research on the classical 13th century Chinese prescription Dangui Buxue Tang.
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Patient belief and practitioner affect treatment outcome (with comment by Peter Deadman)

Categories: Acupuncture, Acupuncture research
Do the effects of acupuncture depend on the needling, the consultation or the practitioner? Researchers based in the UK have attempted to answer this question by quantifying the specific and non-specific effects of acupuncture on osteoarthritic (OA) ...
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TCM diagnoses in fibromyalgia (with comment by Peter Deadman)

Categories: Fibromyaigia, General discussion
A US group has examined the prevalence of different TCM diagnoses in a sample of women with fibromyalgia
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Acupuncture cures giant wart in HIV patient

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders
Italian clinicians have published a novel case report on a severely immune suppressed HIV patient whose giant wart was completely healed following a long period of treatment with acupuncture.
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Acupuncture blocks production of stress molecule

Categories: Acupuncture research
An animal experiment has shown that acupuncture at Zusanli ST-36 can block the production of neuropeptide Y (NPY), a molecule produced by the sympathetic nervous system in response to chronic stress.
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Ear acupressure regulates autonomic function

Categories: Heart / Cardiac, Acupuncture research
Researchers in Austria have shown that manual acupressure at the auricular Heart acupoint can affect cardiac and autonomic nervous system function.
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Ear acupuncture enhances athletic recovery

Categories: Acupuncture research, Lifestyle research
Auricular acupuncture (AA) can enhance athletes' recovery after strenuous exercise, suggests the results of a Taiwanese study.
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Tai chi reduces inflammation

Categories: Tai chi
Practising tai chi can lead to a reduction in levels of inflammatory markers in the blood of older adults.
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