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A study of 593 women at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, who were less than 14 weeks pregnant and suffered from symptoms of nausea or vomiting, compared traditional acupuncture, simple acupuncture at Neiguan P-6 only, sham acupuncture and no acupuncture. The acupuncture patients received two 20-minute sessions of acupuncture in the first week followed by one weekly treatme ...

Author Carmen Ciarcia-Catalano Case history L.K. is a 65 yr old divorced female who lives with her 30 yr old son. She complains of depression and emotional issues since 2005. She is presently being treated by a medical doctor for a thyroid condition. She is a nonsmoker and denies alcohol consumption, but admits to wanting a drink to help her get through her day. She uses marijuana to aid her depre ...

by Heiko Lade (to contact Heiko please visit his website) The practice of a TCM practitioner can often bring unusual cases through your door & the case that is being presented now certainly stands out in my career. A female aged 38 originally sought Chinese massage to help with her fatigue and muscle aches and was then referred to me. Ten months ago she and about 20 others who had been workin ...

Author Jennie Longbottom BSc. MCSP, SRP Background AS is a 40-year-old woman, with an extensive history of chronic, idiopathic, pelvic pain, severe around ovulation and subsiding to a lesser degree some ten days after. She has been investigated by a number of gynaecologists, undergone several exploratory laparotomies, all results being inconclusive as to diagnosis and prognosis. She was recently ...

Electro-acupuncture (EA) may improve phlegm-dampness syndrome and ovarian insulin resistance (IR) in infertile women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) ...

Acupuncture is beneficial for lowering intraocular pressure (IOP) in glaucoma patients, according to a Taiwanese research team ...

Patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) who use adjunctive traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to manage their condition are less likely to require endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) ...

Investigators in Taiwan have found that acupuncture has an immediate effect on improving balance in stroke patients. In a single-blinded, randomised, controlled study, 30 stroke patients were allocated to experimental and control groups. All participants had needles inserted at Baihui DU-20 and at four surrounding points (1.5 cun anterior, posterior and lateral to Baihui DU-20) for 20 minutes. In ...

Acupuncture can improve absorption of baicalin, one of the active components of Huang Qin (Radix Scutellariae). Chinese scientists divided twenty rats randomly into two groups. Group A was treated with a combination of oral administration of Scutellaria baicalensis extracts and acupuncture at the acupoints Jizhong DU-6, Dazhui DU-14 and Zhongwan REN-12  Group B was treated with oral Scutellar ...

Researchers from Canada have found that both real and sham acupuncture improve symptoms in IBS patients ...