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TAI CHI HELPS DIABETICS
Categories: Tai chi
Six months of tai chi can improve glucose control, increase adherence to self-care activities, and lead to a better quality of life in patients with type two diabetes. Korean investigators enrolled 99 type two diabetic patients (with an HbA1c level of six or higher) in the study. All participants received tai chi sessions (19 movements from Yang and Sun styles) twice a week for six months. Sixty-t ...
TAI CHI EFFECTIVE FOR KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS
Categories: Tai chi
Researchers from the USA have found that knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients who practise tai chi show improved physical functioning and experience less pain. Forty individuals (mean age 65) with tibiofemoral OA were randomly assigned to 60 minutes of tai chi or a control intervention (wellness education and stretching) twice weekly for 12 weeks. Each tai chi session included: 10 minutes of self-mas ...
TAI CHI PRACTITIONERS ARE MORE STABLE
Categories: Tai chi
Compared with healthy controls, tai chi practitioners demonstrate better stability and body awareness. A cross-sectional study of 24 tai chi practitioners (mean age 68.5) and 20 age-matched controls carried out in Sweden measured various stability parameters in both groups. The findings showed that tai chi practitioners were able to lean further without losing stability and had better overall body ...
MIND-BODY THERAPIES BENEFICIAL FOR MENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS
Categories: Menopausal syndrome, Tai chi
A systematic review by American authors suggests that mind-body therapies may be beneficial for alleviating specific menopausal symptoms. Eighteen clinical trials, involving a total of 882 women, met their inclusion criteria. Interventions included yoga and/or meditation programs, tai chi and relaxation practices. Eight of the nine studies of yoga, tai chi, and meditation-based programs reported i ...
GE GEN & ALCOHOLISM
Categories: Substance abuse
The starchy root tuber Ge Gen (Radix Puerariae) was noted as combating drunkeness in a 7th century CE Chinese pharmacopoeia. It is much used in China and Hong Kong by traditional herbalists where it has been found to be effective in controlling appetite for alcohol and improving the function of alcohol-affected vital organs, without any sign of toxic side-effects. The first laboratory tests ...
ALCOHOL DETOXIFICATION
Categories: Substance abuse
A study carried out in the State University Hospital for Neurology and Psychiatry in Sofia, Bulgaria, compared the use of body acupuncture [Hegu L.I.-4, Quchi L.I.-11, Neiguan P-6, Waiguan SJ-5, Wangu SI-4, Shuaigu GB-8, Yangbai GB-14, Shenmen HE-7, Taiyang (Extra) and Yintang (Extra)] on 50 alcohol dependent patients, with the use of standard medical detoxification on 68 similar patients. The acu ...
ACUPUNCTURE AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Categories: Substance abuse
More support for the important role of acupuncture in treating substance abuse comes from a study carried out in the psychiatric unit of a general hospital on 47 patients. Compared to a control group, those who received auricular acupuncture had a much higher rate of compliance with the treatment, stayed in treatment longer and many more remained in follow-up treatment. The authors say that ...
ACUPUNCTURE AND SMOKING
Categories: Substance abuse
This study randomly assigned 46 smokers to two groups. One was treated at points recognised for their anti-smoking effect, whilst the other was given acupuncture treatment at points assumed to have no effect for smoking cessation. Concentrations of tobacco by-products in the blood were measured before the first and after the last acupuncture treatment. The number of cigarettes smoked per day ...
ACUPUNCTURE & SMOKING CESSATION
Categories: Substance abuse
A study carried out at the University of Oslo compared the use of acupuncture at a) points with a reputed anti-smoking effect (test group), and b) points with no such reputation (control group). Treatment combined body electro-acupuncture, ear acupuncture and ear acupressure in both groups. Daily cigarette consumption fell in both groups, but more so in the test group. At the end of treatment, 31 ...
ACUPUNCTURE & SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Categories: Substance abuse
Auricular acupuncture continues to gain popularity as an adjunct to substance abuse treatment. In a study carried out by Merle West Center for Medical Research, thirty-seven patients who received acupuncture (AC) during the early weeks of treatment were followed for 180 days postadmission. Data were collected for four parameters: 1. program ret ...
ACUPUNCTURE IN PRISON
Categories: Substance abuse
A Swedish study has investigated the possible benefits of giving ear acupuncture to male and female substance abusers in prison. Prisoners were offered a treatment programme comprising 14 treatments over a 4-week period. 145 prisoners received treatment at either five points selected according to the NADA-Acudetox protocol or a “non-specific control treatment” with 75% of participants ...
ACUPUNCTURE & SMOKING
Categories: Substance abuse
Research has shown that acupuncture can offer significant benefits to public health programmes to help people stop smoking. 141 smokers were assigned to receive either i. true acupuncture and anti-smoking education, ii. sham acupuncture (needles inserted near but not at traditional points) and education, or iii. education alone. All received five treatments a week for four weeks and five weeks of ...
ACUPUNCTURE AIDS OPIATE DETOXIFICATION
Categories: Substance abuse
Rapid Opiate Detoxification (ROD) is considered to be one of the most effective treatments for substance abuse but is associated with severe withdrawal symptoms. In a study to determine if acupuncture could reduce these symptoms, 40 adult males addicted to opioids and scheduled for ROD by naloxone were randomly divided into acupuncture and control groups. In the acupuncture group body acupuncture ...
CHINESE HERB CUTS ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION
Categories: Substance abuse
The Chinese herb Ge Gen (Puerariae Radix) appears to be able to reduce alcohol consumption in heavy drinkers. Those who were given the herb extract in capsule form for seven days prior to a drinking session cut their alcohol consumption by almost 50% compared to controls given a placebo. Not only did they consume fewer beers, but they took more and fewer sips and therefore consumed the beer more s ...
ACUPUNCTURE HELPS ADDICTS
Categories: Substance abuse
Acupuncture has been found to reduce drug use and withdrawal symptoms in a study carried out in Vancouver, Canada. 2,755 treatments were given on a voluntary drop-in basis at two clinics in the city. Patients who presented for treatment every ten days to two weeks demonstrated a significant reduction in drug use and a reduction in withdrawal symptoms including shakes, stomach cramps, hallucination ...
ACUPUNCTURE FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE ANXIETY
Categories: Substance abuse
An exploratory study evaluated the benefits of adding auricular acupuncture to a 21-day outpatient structured psychoeducational treatment programme for women with concurrent substance use problems, anxiety and depression. Women receiving acupuncture (n=185) reported having reduced physiological cravings for substances, felt significantly less depressed and anxious, and were better able to reflect ...
AURICULAR ACUPUNCTURE VERSUS AROMATHERAPY FOR ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL
Categories: Substance abuse
A randomised-controlled trial has compared auricular acupuncture with aromatherapy in reducing the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal and found them to be equally effective. The study, carried out in a German clinic, randomly assigned 109 inpatients undergoing alcohol withdrawal to acupuncture or aromatherapy. Participants underwent both therapies daily during the first five consecutive treatment days ...
Auricular acupuncture for smoking cessation
Categories: Substance abuse
A prospective, randomised, controlled trial has compared auricular acupuncture for smoking cessation against sham in a group of 131 Taiwanese adults. The treatment group received auricular acupuncture at Shenmen, Sympathetic, Mouth and Lung points for eight weeks. The control group received sham acupuncture at non-smoking-cessation-related auricular points (Knee, Elbow, Shoulder and Eye). The subj ...
ACUPUNCTURE HELPS OPIATE WITHDRAWAL
Categories: Substance abuse
A meta-analysis of acupuncture as an adjunctive treatment for opiate detoxification has been carried out by Chinese authors. They searched English and Chinese databases for randomised trials comparing acupuncture combined with opioid agonist treatment versus opioid agonists alone for treating symptoms of opiate withdrawal. Combined treatment was found to lower withdrawal-symptom scores, reported r ...
KUDZU CAUSES AVERSION TO ALCOHOL
Categories: Substance abuse
A synthetic derivative of the kudzu vine [Ge Gen (Puerariae Radix)] has been shown to reduce drinking and prevent relapse in a rat model of alcoholism. Kudzu contains daidzin, a substance which causes aversion to drinking alcohol. Daidzin inhibits the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH-2), which metabolises alcohol into acetaldehyde. Decreased drinking due to ALDH-2 inhibition is attributed to ...
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