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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.

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.

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ACUPRESSURE & MORNING SICKNESS

Categories: Nausea & vomiting, Pregnancy & labour
In a study to assess the benefits of acupressure at Neiguan P-6 in the treatment of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, researches at Lund University in Sweden asked 60 pregnant women suffering from symptoms to a) wear a wrist band at Neiguan P-6, b) wear a wristband at a placebo point, and c) wear no wrist band. Both the Neiguan P-6 and the placebo groups showed a reduction in nausea and vomiting, ...
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ELECTROACUPUNCTURE AND NAUSEA/VOMITING

Categories: Nausea & vomiting
In a study carried out at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, a sham-controlled, double-blinded study was designed to examine the antiemetic efficacy of transcutaneous acupoint electrical stimulation (TAES) in a surgical population (laparoscopic cholecystectomy) at high risk of developing nausea and vomiting. 221 outpatients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy with a standardi ...
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ACUPUNCTURE & VOMITING

Categories: Nausea & vomiting
Patients given cyclophosphamide infusion for rheumatic diseases, suffer from nausea and vomiting as a side-effect. To assess the potential benefits of acupuncture in reducing these symptoms, a Swedish study compared the use of ondansetron (an anti-emetic) alone, or ondansetron in combination with needling of Neiguan P-6 and/or ear points. Compared with ondansetron treatment alone, the combined acu ...
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ACUPUNCTURE & MORNING SICKNESS

Categories: Nausea & vomiting
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 & NAUSEA

Categories: Nausea & vomiting
A systematic review of 26 acupuncture trials into the use of Neiguan P-6 for post-operative nausea has found that it is as successful as routine anti-sickness medication and is both cheaper and has fewer side effects. (http://www.cochrane.org//cochrane/revabstr/ab003281.htm).
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ACUPUNCTURE/ACUPRESSURE FOR CHEMOTHERAPY VOMITING

Categories: Cancer, Nausea & vomiting
A systematic review published by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organisation that evaluates medical research, pooled results from nine studies into the use of acupuncture for post-chemotherapy vomiting. Overall, 22% of patients who received acupuncture suffered vomiting the first day after chemotherapy, compared to 33% of those who did not receive acupuncture. When acupressure studie ...
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CHINESE HERBS FOR CHEMOTHERAPY TOXICITY

Categories: Cancer, Nausea & vomiting
Traditional Chinese herbal medicine (TCHM) does not reduce the toxic effects of chemotherapy on patient's blood cell populations, however it does have a significant impact on control of nausea. One hundred and twenty patients with early-stage breast or colon cancer who required postoperative chemotherapy were enrolled. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either individualised TCHM presc ...
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ACUPRESSURE FOR CHEMOTHERAPY SICKNESS

Categories: Cancer, Nausea & vomiting
Self-applied acupressure for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting has been found to compare favourably with placebo. A multicentre, longitudinal, randomised clinical trial enrolled 160 women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. Subjects were randomised to one of three groups: acupressure at Neiguan P-6 point (active), acupressure to Houxi SI-3 point (placebo), or usual care only. Subject ...
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AURICULAR ACUPUNCTURE FOR NAUSEA AND VOMITING AFTER GALL BLADDER SURGERY

Categories: Nausea & vomiting
The efficacy of auricular acupuncture for the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting after cholecystectomy has been investigated by Iranian researchers. One hundred female patients undergoing transabdominal cholecystectomy were randomly allocated to an auricular acupuncture treatment group or a non-treatment group. A significant difference was found between the control and auricular acupu ...
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