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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.
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Acupuncture adds benefit to drug treatment for anxiety
Categories: Psychological / emotional, Acupuncture research
Acupuncture combined with anti-depressants can significantly improve anxiety compared with drug treatment alone, report Iranian researchers ...
Acupuncture methods are effective for post-stroke depression
A variety of acupuncture methods can be effective for improving the condition of patients with post-stroke depression (PSD) ...
Electro-acupuncture as good as drugs for post-stroke depression
Electro-acupuncture (EA) has a comparable effect to antidepressants on improving post-stroke depression (PSD) and is safer, conclude Chinese authors ...
Acupuncture helps with perimenopausal depression
In comparison with standard care, acupuncture alone or combined with standard care is associated with significant improvements in perimenopausal depression (PMD) ...
Acupuncture effective for chronic pain-related depression
Acupuncture is an effective and safe treatment for chronic pain-related depression (CPRD), and when combined with drug therapy it is more effective than medication alone ...
Acupuncture benefits patients with anxiety disorder
Acupuncture can reduce anxiety in patients with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) ...
Electro-acupuncture benefits depression by acting on neurotransmitter production pathways
Categories: Psychological / emotional, Acupuncture
Electro-acupuncture (EA) treatment combined with antidepressants is more effective for improving depressive symptoms than antidepressants alone ...
Acupuncture reduces psychogenic seizures
Acupuncture may be a useful therapeutic option for treating psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) resulting in a reduction in seizure frequency similar to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) ...
Electro-acupuncture improves sleep in depression patients
Electro-acupuncture (EA) may improve the sleep quality of patients with depression, conclude Chinese clinicians ...
Acupuncture improves well-being for women in anorexia treatment programme
Swedish researchers carried out qualitative analysis on interviews from 25 patients who were undergoing treatment in an inpatient clinic programme ...
Cannabis useful for dementia
Categories: Psychological / emotional, Herbal medicine
Cannabis may be useful in the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease ...
Dang Gui Shao Yao San reduces dementia symptoms
Categories: Psychological / emotional, Herbal medicine
The Chinese herbal formula Dang Gui Shao Yao San (DSS) provides clinically important reductions in symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VD) ..
Acupuncture improves well-being for women in anorexia treatment programme
Categories: Psychological / emotional
Acupuncture can improve subjective well-being for women being treated for anorexia nervosa. ...
Acupuncture helpful for earthquake survivors
Categories: Psychological / emotional
Acupuncture could be a useful tool for reducing pain and psychological symptoms in earthquake survivors ...
Acupuncture enhances effects of antidepressants
Categories: Psychological / emotional
Both manual and electro-acupuncture show beneficial effects when added to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in patients with moderate to severe depression ...
Tai chi helps elders with depression by regulating the nervous system
Categories: Psychological / emotional, Tai chi
Tai chi may alleviate depression in the elderly by modulating the autonomous nervous system, reports a Chinese research team ...
Effect of acupuncture points on Alzheimer's reviewed
Categories: Psychological / emotional, Neurological
Chinese authors have reviewed brain imaging evidence that explains the effects of acupuncture on Alzheimer's disease ...
Acupressure is an active ingredient of tapping therapy
Categories: Psychological / emotional
A systematic review by Australian and American authors suggests that acupressure is an active ingredient in Emotional Freedom Techniques ...
Complementary therapies reduce depression in pregnancy
Categories: Psychological / emotional, Pregnancy & labour
Australian authors examining the effect of complementary therapies on antenatal depression have found evidence of benefit from acupuncture, massage and bright light therapy ...
Acupuncture and herbs equivalent to antidepressants for postpartum depression
Categories: Psychological / emotional
Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine have benefits equal to, or greater than antidepressants for postpartum depression ...