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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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Items 2152 to 2160 of 2280 total

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ACUPUNCTURE BETTER THAN MEDICATION FOR CHRONIC HEADACHE

Categories: Headache & migraine
A systematic review has confirmed the benefits of acupuncture in the treatment of chronic headache. The study, carried out by US authors, included 31 studies in its meta-analysis. The majority of trials comparing verum (true) acupuncture with sham acupuncture were found to show a trend in favour of verum acupuncture. The combined response rate in the acupuncture group was significantly higher comp ...
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ACUPUNCTURE WORKS FOR HEADACHES

Categories: Headache & migraine
The addition of 12 additional trials (carried out since 2001) to the Cochrane Database Systematic Review of acupuncture for migraine prophylaxis increased the number of trials meeting the inclusion criteria to 22, involving a total of 4419 participants. The authors' new conclusion, based on the additional data, is that there is now consistent evidence that acupuncture provides additional benefit i ...
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ACUPUNCTURE EFFECTIVE FOR ACUTE MIGRAINE

Categories: Headache & migraine
Chinese researchers have found acupuncture to be an effective treatment for acute migraine. In a multicentre randomised controlled trial, they compared verum acupuncture with two different types of sham acupuncture. 175 patients received one session of real or sham treatment and were observed over a period of 24 hours. Visual analog scale (VAS) pain scores in the fourth hour after treatment decrea ...
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ACUPUNCTURE AND HAY FEVER

Categories: Hay fever
In a randomised, controlled, single-blind trial in the UK, patients in the 'active' group received needling at Zanzhu BL-2, Yingxiang L.I.-20 and Hegu L.I.-4 (deqi was obtained and needles retained for five minutes), whilst patients in the control group received sham acupuncture (three needles inserted subcutaneously, with no further stimulation, in an area over the middle of the patella). Remissi ...
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Acupuncture versus acupuncture + herbs for hay fever

Categories: Hay fever, Nose and mouth, Allergies
Although many Asian practitioners are happy to specialise as acupuncturists, and therefore do not prescribe herbs, there has been a tendency in the west to feel that acupuncture alone is somehow inadequate. In the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis at least, this does not seem to be the case. In a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial, 65 patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis re ...
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Acupuncture & allergic rhinitis in kids

Categories: Hay fever, Nose and mouth, Allergies
A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial of acupuncture for the treatment of childhood persistent allergic rhinitis was carried out at a Hong Kong hospital. Patients attending the paediatric outpatient department were randomly assigned to receive either true or sham acupuncture, administered twice a week for eight weeks. There were significantly lower daily rhinitis scores and more sym ...
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Acupuncture effective for allergic rhinitis

Categories: Hay fever, Nose and mouth
An Australian study has found that acupuncture can significantly reduce the symptoms of persistent allergic rhinitis (PAR). The randomised, single-blind, sham-controlled trial included 80 patients with PAR (aged 16-70 years) who were randomly assigned to real or sham acupuncture. Three key acupuncture points, Yingxiang L.I.-20, Yintang M-HN-3 and Fengchi GB-20, plus one supplementary point (determ ...
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Acupuncture for allergic rhinitis

Categories: Hay fever, Nose and mouth, Allergies
A systematic review of seven high quality trials evaluating the effectiveness of acupuncture for treating or preventing allergic rhinitis (AR) concludes that the evidence is mixed. Results for seasonal AR failed to show specific effects of acupuncture, while for perennial AR evidence suggests acupuncture is effective. (Acupuncture for allergic rhinitis: a systematic review. Ann Allergy Asthma Immu ...
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ACUPUNCTURE & POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME

Categories: Gynaecology
24 women with polycystic ovarian syndrome who had amenorrhoea or oligomenorrhoea, 19 or whom were resistant to clomiphene, were given 10-14 mostly electro-acupuncture treatments at points Shenshu BL-23, Pangguangshu BL-28, Sanyinjiao SP-6, Yinlingquan SP-9, Neiguan P-6, Waiguan SJ-5 and Baihui DU-20. 9 women, , 7 of whom were clomiphene resistant, showed a significant rise in rate of ovulation. (A ...
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