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Acupuncture for cardiac arrhythmias

Categories: Heart / Cardiac

A review article from authors in the USA supports the use of acupuncture in treating cardiac arrhythmias. According to the eight studies reviewed, 87% to 100% of participants converted to normal sinus rhythm after acupuncture. However, the limited methodological quality of current studies necessitates better-controlled clinical trials. (The effects of acupuncture on cardiac arrhythmias: a literatu ...

HERBAL MEDICINES SAY NO TO CIRCULATORY DISEASE

Categories: Heart / Cardiac

Research from the USA suggests that traditional Chinese herbal medicines (TCMs) used to treat cardiovascular disease may act by producing large amounts of nitric oxide (NO). NO is a chemical messenger molecule that is crucial to the cardiovascular system because of its vasodilatory action. It promotes blood flow through the heart and circulatory system, eliminates blood clots, lowers high blood pr ...

ACUPUNCTURE IN LONG-TERM MIGRAINE

Categories: Headache & migraine

A study carried out in Austria has demonstrated the long-term benefits of acupuncture in the treatment of migraine. 26 patients were treated by local and distal body points, once weekly, for between 6 and 13 treatments. The majority showed reduced frequency of attacks and use of analgesics. Significantly, a follow-up survey showed maintained improvement over a 3-year period. (Headache, 1995; 35(8) ...

ACUPUNCTURE & MIGRAINE

Categories: Headache & migraine

Women who opt for acupuncture instead of a drug to prevent migraines report feeling fewer initial symptoms, fewer attacks, and less side effects from the treatment, new study findings report. The study, carried out at the Woman's Headache Centre at the University of Turin, Italy, compared the effect of acupuncture with oral flunarizine in preventing non-aura migraine over a 6-month period. The 160 ...

ACUPUNCTURE FOR CHRONIC HEADACHE

Categories: Headache & migraine

Acupuncture has demonstrated a clear long-term benefit for patients suffering from chronic headaches. 401 patients were randomly assigned to receive either individualised acupuncture treatment (12 treatments over 3 months), or normal care from their general practitioner (control). At 12 months after the onset of treatment, headache scores in the acupuncture group fell by 34% (compared to 16% in th ...

CHINESE MEDICINE FOR CHRONIC HEADACHES

Categories: Headache & migraine

This German study compared the number of days of moderate headache experienced by two groups of chronic headache sufferers, one after 4 weeks of Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture treatment at a Chinese medicine hospital in Kotzting, Germany, and the other assigned to a non-treatment waiting group. Fifty-two percent of patients in the treatment group experienced a greater than 50% reduction i ...

ACUPUNCTURE FOR CHRONIC HEADACHE

Categories: Headache & migraine

Another large German study similarly compared the effects of randomly assigned acupuncture, self-elected acupuncture and non-acupuncture controls on chronic migraine and tension headache in a total of 15,056 patients. After three months of treatment (fifteen sessions) the frequency of headache days reduced significantly and quality of life scores improved significantly between the acupuncture and ...

LASER ACUPUNCTURE & CHRONIC TENSION HEADACHE

Categories: Headache & migraine

Laser acupuncture has a distinct advantage over needle acupuncture in clinical trials since it is considerably easier to apply a placebo intervention. In a study of the use of laser acupuncture in the treatment of chronic tension-type headache, 50 patients were randomly allocated to treatment or placebo groups. Patients in the treatment group received low energy laser acupuncture to Lieque LU-7, H ...

ACUPUNCTURE & TENSION HEADACHE

Categories: Headache & migraine

A German trial compared 'true' acupuncture, sham acupuncture and no acupuncture in 270 female patients suffering from episodic or chronic tension-type headache. The acupuncture protocol, which was carried out at 28 different clinics, was developed through consultation with various German acupuncture experts and societies and delivered by practitioners with a median of 500 hours training and 10 yea ...