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Research Archive

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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Acupuncture for gastrointestinal diseases

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders
A systematic review has assessed the evidence for the effectiveness of acupuncture treatment in gastrointestinal diseases.
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Acupuncture for ulcerative colitis

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders
In a prospective, randomised, controlled clinical trial, 29 patients with mild to moderately active ulcerative colitis were randomly assigned to receive either traditional acupuncture and moxibustion, or sham acupuncture consisting of superficial nee ...
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ACUPUNCTURE & THE GASTRIC SPHINCTER

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders
Inappropriate relaxation of the muscular lower oesophageal sphincter (LES) is associated with gastric reflux and heartburn.
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ACUPUNCTURE & CROHN'S DISEASE

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders
In a single blind controlled trial of 51 patients with mild to moderately active Crohn's disease, 27 were randomly assigned to receive traditional acupuncture, and 24 to receive sham acupuncture at non-points.
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ACUPUNCTURE & COLONOSCOPY

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders
In order to determine whether acupuncture can reduce the discomfort and anxiety of colonoscopy, 30 patients were randomly assigned to receive acupuncture, sham acupuncture, or no acupuncture.
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ACUPUNCTURE FOR CROHN'S DISEASE

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders
A recent trial of traditional acupuncture for the treatment of Crohn's disease carried out at the University of Nuremberg has shown it to be statistically more effective than sham acupuncture.
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BOWEL OBSTRUCTION & ACUPUNCTURE

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders
Writing in the journal Medical Acupuncture, Martha Grout MD describes 2 cases of small bowel obstruction treated by acupuncture.
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ACUPUNCTURE USEFUL FOR OF DIABETIC BLADDER DYSFUNCTION

Categories: Diabetes
A Chinese pilot study suggests that acupuncture may be clinically useful in the treatment of diabetic bladder dysfunction (DBD).
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ELECTROACUPUNCTURE FOR GASTROPARESIS IN DIABETIC PATIENTS

Categories: Diabetes
A randomised, single-blinded pilot study has demonstrated that electroacupuncture (EA) effectively reduces the dyspeptic symptoms of diabetic gastroparesis (delayed gastric emptying) and accelerates gastric emptying.
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