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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 1657 to 1665 of 2280 total

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Acupuncture effective alternative for shoulder pain

Categories: Shoulder
A large pragmatic randomised trial has found that acupuncture is an effective alternative to conventional orthopaedic treatment for chronic shoulder pain (CSP). The German Randomized Acupuncture trial for chronic Shoulder Pain (GRASP) studied 424 patients with an average visual analogue scale (VAS) pain score of 50mm, who were randomly assigned to receive six weeks of Chinese acupuncture (verum), ...
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Acupuncture switches off brain's pain regions

Categories: Acupuncture, Comment
Recent research into how acupuncture affects the brain has improved our understanding of the complex neural mechanisms involved in the procedure and may lead to wider acceptance of the treatment by mainstream medicine. Scientists from the UK's University of York and Hull York Medical school, working with colleagues at University College London and the University of Southampton, needled the acupun ...
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Acupuncture helps with painful side-effects of cancer drug

Categories: Cancer, Miscellaneous
Acupuncture may help to relieve the joint pain and stiffness that are a common side-effect of the use of aromatase inhibitors (AI) that suppress oestrogen production in women with breast cancer. US researchers conducted a study of 43 postmenopausal women with early breast cancer who were being treated with AI and experiencing arthralgia. They were randomised to receive true acupuncture (TA - auric ...
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Chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men

Categories: Male disorders, Acupuncture, Comment
Acupuncture repeatedly demonstrates beneficial effect in this difficult and intractable disorder.
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Nanofibres explain healing properties of yunnan baiyao

Categories: Herb research
American scientists using atomic force microscopy (AFM) have discovered nano-scale fibres in Yunnan Baiyao, the traditional Chinese herbal medicine used to treat wounds. AFM images revealed an abundance of uniform nanofibres, about 25nm in diameter and 86-726nm in length, in a solution of Yunnan Baiyao powder. The authors suggest that the unique adhesive and structural properties of nanofibres may ...
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Unilateral acupuncture anaesthesia measurable bilaterally

Categories: Acupuncture research
Acupuncture induces objectively measurable anaesthesia on both the treated and untreated sides of the body. In a German study, twenty-four healthy volunteers received three different forms of acupuncture - manual acupuncture, low-frequency electroacupuncture, and high-frequency electroacupuncture - in a single-blinded crossover design. All forms of acupuncture were applied unilaterally at Sanyinji ...
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Expectancy enhances acupuncture's immune benefits

Categories: Immunity, Acupuncture research
Not only does acupuncture enhance immunity, telling subjects that it does so increases the benefit. Sixty healthy volunteers were randomised to receive acupuncture at Quchi L.I.-11 (groups one and two) or relaxation (group three) twice a week for four weeks. Only acupuncture group one and the relaxation group were provided with the additional suggestion that the treatment might strengthen the immu ...
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Deqi switches off brain's pain regions

Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research
Acupuncture that elicits deqi has a deactivating effect on specific areas of the brain associated with pain processing. A UK team has investigated the effect of deqi and acute pain needling sensations on brain fMRI blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signals. Seventeen healthy participants received acupuncture at Hegu L.I.-4 while in an MRI scanner. The fMRI measurements were classified into those ...
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Acupuncture more than a placebo for pain

Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research
In order to clarify whether acupuncture is more effective than placebo for pain relief, two British authors have combined evidence gathered from systematic reviews of high-quality RCTs that compared acupuncture with sham acupuncture for chronic pain conditions. Eight systematic reviews with meta-analyses of pooled data were included in their analysis. For short-term outcomes, acupuncture showed si ...
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