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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 FOR CHEMO INDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING IN CHILDREN

Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics, Cancer, Nausea & vomiting
Researchers have investigated whether acupuncture can reduce the need for antiemetic medication during chemotherapy in paediatric oncology. A multicentre crossover study carried out at five hospitals in Germany enrolled 23 children, mean age 13.6 years, who were receiving highly emetogenic chemotherapy for the treatment of solid malignant tumours. Patients were randomly allocated to receive acupun ...
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Chinese herbs and hepatitis e

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders
Hepatitis E is endemic in developing countries and may occur as imported hepatitis in industrialised countries. A 46-year-old Japanese man developed immunoserologically diagnosed acute hepatitis E in Japan 4 months after he had made a trip to China. He had bought a Chinese herbal medicine there, taking it occasionally until approximately 6 weeks prior to the onset of acute hepatitis. The results o ...
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Acupuncture & eye blood flow

Categories: Eye disorders
Further details of a study we covered in NEWS May 1998, show a greater benefit from acupuncture among those who have previously received acupuncture than among those receiving treatment for the first time. The research carried out at the Department of Ophthalmology at Kyoto Prefectural University, involved needling Hegu L.I.-4 and measuring chorioretinal   blood flow using the Heidelberg ...
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Acupuncture and jet lag

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders
In a study carried out by the US airforce, electrical stimulation of auricular acupuncture points using a Pointer Plus device was effective in treating jet lag. 5 USAF aircrew members suffering from circadian desynchronosis (jet lag) were treated at points Shenmen, Zero, Sleep Disorder I and 2, and Pineal Gland at a frequency of 10 Hz, a pulse width of 220 microseconds, and a pulse shape of an asy ...
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Acupuncture for spinal cord injuries

Categories: Spinal cord
A recent clinical trial of acupuncture therapy for spinal cord injury has shown promising results. 100 patients with acute spinal cord injury were randomly divided into two groups. The control group was treated with standard rehabilitation therapy, whilst the treatment group received electro-acupuncture treatment in addition to rehabilitation. For both groups, neurological and functional scores we ...
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Acupuncture for uveitis

Categories: Eye disorders
Uveitis, an inflammation of the uvea, the middle layer of the eye, causes pain, blurred vision and, left untreated, may lead to blindness. Researchers at the University of Vienna ophthalmology and uveitis departments treated five patients with recurrent uveitis by acupuncture. All patients reported a decrease of pain and increased visual acuity, laser measurement showed decreased inflammation an ...
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Acupuncture & spinal cord injury

Categories: Spinal cord
In a Taiwanese trial, 100 acute traumatic spinal cord injury patients were randomly assigned to acupuncture plus rehabilitation therapy, or control (rehabilitation only) groups. The acupuncture group received stimulation to Houxi SI-3 and Shenmai BL-62 bilaterally via adhesive surface electrodes, without needles. Treatment was given as early as possible- in the emergency room or soon after spinal ...
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Acupuncture for voice disorders

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders
Point specific acupuncture is effective in treating vocal disorders arising from benign pathological tissue changes according to a recent study. Twenty four subjects with dysphonia were randomly assigned to either an experimental group or a placebo group. The experimental group received acupuncture on Renying ST-9, Lieque LU-7 and Zhaohai KID-6, which are all related to improving throat problems a ...
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Chinese herbal medicines for hyperthyroidism

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders
A systematic review has been carried out to assess the effects of Chinese herbal medicines for treating hyperthyroidism. The authors searched Western and Chinese biomedical databases and identified 13 relevant trials with 1770 participants, all of which were deemed to be of low methodological quality. Compared with antithyroid drugs alone, the results suggested that Chinese herbal medicines in com ...
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