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

A response to a study debunking acupuncture for back pain ... 

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 ...

A Hong Kong team has evaluated Twenty Chinese herbs for their antimicrobial activity against four common oral bacteria, using an in vitro assay. Thirteen herbs demonstrated activity against Porphyromonas gingivalis, including Hou Po (Magnoliae Cortex) Huang Bai (Phellodendri Cortex), Ding Xiang (Caryophylli Flos), Jin Yin Hua (Flos Lonicerae Japonicae), Wu Mei (Mume Fructus), Lian Qiao (Forsythiae ...

Women with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) can experience significant improvements in neuropathic symptoms from an eight-week acupuncture treatment regimen, ....

Acupuncture and hypnotherapy have an equivalent effect to analgesics for migraine treatment, according to a study carried out in Turkey ...

Chinese researchers have found traditional acupuncture to be more effective for pain reduction in migraine sufferers than a control acupuncture treatment and have correlated this effect to differences in activity in pain-related brain regions.

Review of clinical studies 1. Quantitative evaluation of spermatozoa ultrastructure after acupuncture treatment for idiopathic male infertility Twenty eight German men with idiopathic oligospermia (too few sperm), asthenospermia (poor motility) or teratozoospermia (poor morphology) received acupuncture twice a week for five weeks and were then compared to 12 men in the untreated control group. The ...

  Authors Cardoso T., Mendez C. M., Jimenez I. Introduction Peripheral Facial Nerve Palsy is an inflammatory neuropathy. Patients can have a viral prodrome. Although it is not universally accepted, some authors consider that idiopathic facial nerve palsy is a polyneuropathy, with slight findings referable to the trigeminal, glossopharyngeal, and vagus nerves, and the second cervical nerve in ...

Electro-acupuncture (EA) combined with local anaesthesia can reduce pain, alleviate side effects and improve the efficiency of gastroscopy procedures, according to a study from China ...