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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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Acupuncture protects the heart during surgery

Categories: Heart / Cardiac
Acupuncture pre-treatment can help prevent damage to the heart during valve replacement operations. Reperfusion injury (damage to tissue caused when blood supply returns after a period of ischaemia) contributes to postoperative morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing open-heart surgery. In a new Chinese study, 60 patients were randomly allocated to electroacupuncture (EA) pre-treatment or a ...
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MOXIBUSTION AND ACUPUNCTURE NO BENEFIT FOR BREECH OR ART

Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A Swiss study of moxibustion for breech version has found no beneficial effect. The RCT, involving 212 women between 34 and 36 weeks gestation, compared two weeks of daily moxibustion at BL-67 with expectant management. The percentage of external cephalic versions was similar between the two groups (18% for moxibustion vs 16% for the control group) and the frequency of caesarean delivery was simil ...
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ACUPUNCTURE EFFECT ON HOT FLUSHES NOT SUSTAINED

Categories: Gynaecology, Menopausal syndrome
A follow-up study on acupuncture for menopausal hot flushes has reported that the benefits found immediately post-treatment do not persist. An earlier study of 267 postmenopausal women found that 12 weeks of individualised acupuncture plus self-care produced a clinically relevant reduction in hot flushes and increased health-related quality of life compared with self-care alone. The new study foun ...
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Acupuncture better than drugs for cancer hot flushes

Categories: Gynaecology, Menopausal syndrome
Not only is acupuncture as effective as drug therapy at preventing hot flushes in breast cancer patients who have been receiving long-term anti-oestrogen therapy, it also increases women's sex drive and improves their sense of well-being. Venlafaxine (Effexor - a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) - the therapy of choice for such symptoms - has numerous adverse effects. An American team rando ...
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Acupuncture good for period pain

Categories: Gynaecology, Gynaecological
Authors of a Korean systematic review have found promising evidence for the use of acupuncture in the treatment of primary dysmenorrhoea. Twenty-seven RCTs (data from nearly 3000 women) were included in their analysis, which showed that, compared with pharmacological treatment or herbal medicine, acupuncture was associated with a significant reduction in pain. Two RCTs that compared acupuncture wi ...
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Acupuncture for allergic rhinitis

Categories: Hay fever, Nose and mouth, Allergies
A group from Taiwan has assessed the effect of acupuncture on clinical outcomes and gene expression profiles of patients suffering from perennial allergic rhinitis and found differences between atopic and non-atopic cases. The Phadiatop test was used to classify 21 patients with allergic rhinitis as either atopic (Ph+) or non-atopic (Ph-). All patients received eight sessions of acupuncture treatm ...
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Acupuncture reduces allergic itching

Categories: Skin / dermatology, Allergies
Acupuncture can significantly reduce itching in patients with atopic eczema. A German study has investigated the effect of acupuncture on type I hypersensitivity itch and skin reaction in a crossover RCT. An allergen stimulus was applied to the skin of 30 patients with atopic eczema before (direct approach) and after (preventive approach) the following treatments: acupuncture at Quchi L.I.-11 and ...
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Acupuncture for fibromyalgia

Categories: Fibromyaigia
German authors have systematically reviewed the efficacy of acupuncture for fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). Seven RCTs (385 patients) with a median treatment time of nine sessions were included. Strong evidence for reduction of pain was found immediately post-treatment, although this was only present in studies judged to be at risk of bias. There was no evidence for reduction of fatigue or sleep dist ...
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PSYCHIATRIC CONDITIONS DON'T AFFECT RESPONSE TO ACUPUNCTURE

Categories: Psychological / emotional
American researchers report that psychiatric comorbidity does not affect response to acupuncture treatment for chronic low back pain (CLBP), nor does it modify the effect of expectations on acupuncture response. In a controlled, blinded crossover trial verum acupuncture at Hegu L.I.-4 was compared with validated sham acupuncture in 40 CLBP patients, who were divided into two groups with a low or h ...
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