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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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Moxa at Shenshu BL-23 reduces reduction in renal vascular resistance

Categories: Acupuncture research

Japanese investigators have found that applying moxibustion at Shenshu BL-23 (back shu point of the Kidney) leads to a reduction in renal vascular resistance ...

Moxibustion activates macrophages to kill bacteria

Categories: Acupuncture research

An experimental study from China suggests that moxibustion generates a protective response against bacterial infection by activating macrophage autophagy ...

'Phantom acupuncture' helps tease out components of acupuncture response

Categories: Acupuncture research

A US/Korean team has developed and tested a novel form of placebo acupuncture, dubbed ‘phantom acupuncture’, which reproduces the acupuncture needling ritual without any tactile stimulation ...

Needling Taichong LIV-3 affects brain areas related to vision, movement and emotion

Categories: Acupuncture research

Chinese scientists report that acupuncture at Taichong LIV-3 can specifically affect areas of the brain related to vision, movement, emotion and pain ...

Neiguan P-6 and LIV-3 Taichong have opposite effects on brain blood flow

Categories: Acupuncture research

Data from research carried out in Italy suggests that needling the acupuncture points Neiguan P-6 and LIV-3 Taichong has markedly different effects on cerebral blood flow (CBF) ...

Acupuncture affects dyspepsia patients' brains differently

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

The effect of acupuncture on the brain is different in functional dyspepsia (FD) patients compared with healthy subjects ...

Acupuncture interrupts cluster headaches

Categories: Headache & migraine

Acupuncture can be used to interrupt cluster headaches (CH), according to a case series from Italy. Four patients with CH were treated with acupuncture as a preventive treatment, either combined with the calcium channel blocking drug verapamil, or al ...

Off-site acupuncture detrimental to embryo transfer

Categories: Infertility

A trial carried out in the USA has found that acupuncture performed off-site on the day of embryo transfer (ET) was detrimental to the success of the transfer. In a prospective, physician-blinded study ...

Acupuncture not effective in correcting breech presentation

Categories: Pregnancy & Labour

A French study has found that treatment with acupuncture and moxibustion was not effective in correcting breech presentation in the third trimester of pregnancy