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Acupuncture can reduce blood lactic acid and enhance recovery from muscle fatigue after exercise, according to Taiwanese scientists. Thirty male university basketball players were randomly assigned to three groups: acupuncture, sham and no treatment. Acupuncture was carried out at Neiguan P-6 and Zusanli ST-36 beginning 15 minutes prior to exercise and continuing until exhaustion of the subject. I ...

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In a study investigating the efficacy of electro-acupuncture (EA) for relief of labour pain, 36 pregnant women were randomly divided into an EA group and a control group. Two rounds of EA were carried out, one at the beginning of the active phase of labour and one at 7-8cm of cervical dilatation. Hegu L.I.-4 and Sanyinjiao SP-6 were stimulated bilaterally for 20 minutes at a frequency of 2-100 Hz ...

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 ...

A Danish team has concluded that acupuncture may not be effective for the induction of labour in post-term women. In a double-blind multicentre randomised controlled study, 125 healthy women with uneventful pregnancies at gestational week 41(+6) were randomised into two groups. The intervention group received acupuncture twice on the same day at Baihui DU-20, Zhiyin BL-67, Hegu L.I.-4 and Sanyinji ...

Radiation therapy for cancer can induce secondary xerostomia (dryness of the mouth) which may be resistant to conventional pilocarpine therapy.

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

Drinking coffee when you're drunk won't sober you up. In fact a cup of coffee may make it harder for people to realise they're drunk and therefore more likely to feel competent enough to try potentially dangerous things such as driving while intoxicated. An American laboratory study investigated how alcohol, caffeine or a combination of both affected the ability of mice to negotiate a maze and lea ...

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Researchers from Taichung in Taiwan have showed that electroacupuncture administered before abdominal surgery significantly reduces the amount of morphine pain-relief required after the operation. 100 volunteers were assigned to 4 groups of 25. One group was given low frequency stimulation (2Hz), another high-EA (100Hz) and in another needles were inserted without electrical stimulation. Bilateral ...