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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 & MORNING SICKNESS

Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A study of 593 women at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, who were less than 14 weeks pregnant and suffered from symptoms of nausea or vomiting, compared traditional acupuncture, simple acupuncture at Neiguan P-6 only, sham acupuncture and no acupuncture. The acupuncture patients received two 20-minute sessions of acupuncture in the first week followed by one weekly treatme ...
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ACUPUNCTURE DURING LABOUR

Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A study was conducted to see if acupuncture can influence cervical ripening, induce labour and reduce the need for induction. 45 women were randomly assigned to an acupuncture or a control group on their due date. In the acupuncture group, women were needled at Hegu L.I.-4 and Sanyinjiao SP-6 bilaterally every other day, until they either gave birth or, if the due date was exceeded by 10 days, wer ...
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ACUPUNCTURE EFFECTIVE FOR LABOUR PAIN

Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A study carried out at Orebro University Hospital in Sweden has found that women who received acupuncture during labour were less likely to ask for an epidural to relieve pain (12% compared to 22%) and felt more relaxed than women who did not receive acupuncture. 46 women were randomised to receive acupuncture during labour, and reported at least once an hour how much pain they were experiencing a ...
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ACUPUNCTURE & MORNING SICKNESS

Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A study of 593 women at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, who were less than 14 weeks pregnant and suffered from symptoms of nausea or vomiting, compared traditional acupuncture, simple acupuncture at Neiguan P-6 only, sham acupuncture and no acupuncture. The acupuncture patients received two 20-minute sessions of acupuncture in the first week followed by one weekly treatme ...
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ACUPUNCTURE AND LABOUR PAIN

Categories: Pregnancy & labour
Obstetricians from Norway have said that acupuncture is the analgesic method of choice for reducing labour pain, whether supplemented by pharmacological pain-killers or not. 210 mothers in spontaneous labour were randomly assigned to receive either real acupuncture or false acupuncture. The results were tested by assessing their request for pharmacological pain-relief, and on their perception of p ...
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ACUPUNCTURE FOR LABOUR PAIN

Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A randomised, unblinded, controlled study carried out at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ulleval University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, has indicated that acupuncture is effective in controlling labour pain. Of the 106 women in labour who received acupuncture, only 11% required Meperidine analgesia, compared to 37% and 29% in two control groups. The use of other analgesics was also lower ...
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ACUPUNCTURE EFFECTIVE FOR BREECH CORRECTION

Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A systematic review from Holland has concluded that acupuncture-type interventions (moxibustion, acupuncture, or electro-acupuncture) on Zhiyin BL 67 are effective in correcting breech presentation, compared with expectant management. Of 65 citations retrieved from various databases, six RCTs and three cohort studies fulfilled the reviewer's inclusion criteria. In the RCTs the pooled proportion of ...
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ACUPUNCTURE & BREECH PRESENTATION

Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A study carried out in Croatia compared the outcome of 34 pregnant women with breech presentation treated by manual needling of Zhiyin BL-67 (with deqi), and 33 similar women not treated by acupuncture as a control. Acupuncture was given from 34 weeks, each session lasting 30 minutes, 2 sessions a week. The rate of successful conversion to vertex presentation (verified by ultrasonography) was 76.4 ...
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ACUPUNCTURE FOR BACK PAIN IN PREGNANCY

Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A Brazilian study which compared the levels of low back and pelvic pain in women treated by acupuncture compared to non-treated controls, found that the acupuncture group showed a greater reduction in overall pain, maximum pain and  pain at the time of interview, reduced use of analgesics, and greater capacity to perform general activities, to walk and to work. (Acupuncture in Medicine, 2004 ...
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