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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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Items 1387 to 1395 of 2280 total

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Qigong effective for tinnitus

Categories: Qigong, Ear/hearing disorders
German researchers report that qigong training could be a useful adjunctive therapy for patients with tinnitus. Eighty tinnitus patients were randomly assigned to an intervention group, consisting of 10 qigong training sessions over five weeks, or a waiting-list control group. Compared with the control group, qigong participants experienced improvement in tinnitus severity. In a subgroup of patien ...
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Hemp Seed Pill eases constipation

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders, Herb research
Hemp Seed Pill (HSP, [Ma Zi Ren Wan]) can improve the symptoms of patients suffering from functional constipation (FC). Researchers from Hong Kong carried out a rigorously designed two-part study to assess the efficacy of HSP in treating FC. In trial I, involving 96 subjects, the optimal dosage of HSP was determined from among three doses (2.5g, 5.0g and 7.5g, twice daily). A dose of 7.5g twice da ...
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Acupuncture for rheumatic conditions - systematic review

Categories: Arthritis , Fibromyaigia, Back, Tennis Elbow
An overview of systematic reviews of acupuncture for rheumatic conditions has found relatively clear evidence to suggest that it is effective for osteoarthritis (OA), low back pain and lateral elbow pain, but ineffective for fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis. From their evaluation of the thirty systematic reviews that met their inclusion criteria, the authors concluded that for OA, low back pa ...
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Excellent news for UK practitioners of herbal medicine

Categories: Herbal medicine, Comment
At first glance, this appears to be the decision we have been hoping for. A written Ministerial Statement from the Department of Health issued today reads as follows: Practitioners of acupuncture, herbal medicine and traditional Chinese medicine: The Secretary of State for Health (Mr Andrew Lansley): The issue of whether or not practitioners of acupuncture, herbal medicine and traditional Chinese ...
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Acupuncture effective for bedwetting

Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics
A systematic review has evaluated the efficacy of acupuncture for nocturnal enuresis (NE) in children. A standardised data extraction form was used to evaluate outcome measures and scrutinise the quality of 13 clinical trials, which were judged to have adequately reported on treatment parameters and outcome measures. All but one study reported the efficacy rate of acupuncture as part of a TCM pack ...
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Acupuncture reduces androgen levels in PCOS

Categories: Gynaecology
Low-frequency electro-acupuncture (EA) can improve hyperandrogenism and menstrual frequency in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), according to a Swedish study. Eighty-four women with PCOS were randomised to 16 weeks of low-frequency EA, physical exercise or no intervention. After 16 weeks of treatment, levels of circulating androgens were found to have decreased significantly in the EA g ...
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Leafy greens protect against diabetes

Categories: Diet research
A systematic review by British authors has concluded that eating a diet rich in green leafy vegetables may lower the risk of developing type-2 diabetes. Combining the results of six studies (a total of more than 220,000 participants), the authors found that eating more fruit and vegetables did not significantly reduce the risk of diabetes, although there was a general trend in that direction. Howe ...
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Acupuncture improves symptoms of ADHD

Categories: Psychological / emotional
Combining electro-acupuncture with behavioral therapy has a positive effect on reducing the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in pre-school children, according to a Chinese study. One hundred and eighty pre-school children with ADHD were randomly recruited into an experimental group, which received electro-acupuncture and behavioral therapy, or a control group, which rece ...
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Acupuncture effective for premature ejaculation

Categories: Male disorders
Results from a high-quality Turkish study suggest that acupuncture is an effective non-pharmocological method for treating premature ejaculation (PE). Ninety patients with PE were randomly assigned to either acupuncture or sham acupuncture (twice per week) or medication (paroxetine 20mg/d), for four weeks. For verum acupuncture, needles were inserted bilaterally at four acupuncture points, Zusanli ...
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