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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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Ear acupuncture for weight loss

Categories: Obesity

In a study carried out in a psychiatric hospital, 45 patients with psychoactive-drug-induced obesity and 44 obese patients not taking such medication were randomised to receive either ear acupuncture, sham acupuncture or ear acupuncture plus physical exercise sessions. In both the drug and no-drug induced obesity groups, those who received true ear acupuncture lost weight (2.6kg average) whilst th ...

ELECTROACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT OF OBESITY

Categories: Obesity

A Turkish study has investigated the effects of electroacupuncture (EA) on obesity and accompanying psychological symptoms. One hundred and sixty-five female volunteers were divided into three groups: EA, placebo EA, and diet restriction. EA was performed using three ear and six body points. Patients receiving EA experienced a 4.8% reduction in weight compared with a 2.7% weight reduction for plac ...

ACUPUNCTURE FOR WEIGHT LOSS

Categories: Obesity

Korean authors have carried out a meta-analysis of 29 studies of acupuncture for obesity. Compared to control of lifestyle, acupuncture was associated with a significant reduction in average body weight of 1.72 kg and associated with an improvement in obesity. Acupuncture significantly reduced body weight by an average of 1.56 kg compared with placebo or sham treatments. Acupuncture also showed mo ...

Acupuncture & parkinson's disease

Categories: Neurological

Twenty Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients (mean age 68 years; disease duration 8.5 years) each received acupuncture treatments by a licensed acupuncturist. All patients were treated with two acupuncture treatment sessions per week. The first seven patients received 10 treatments and the last 13 patients 16 treatments. Patients were evaluated before and after acupuncture with the Sickness Impact Pro ...

ACUPUNCTURE FOR SPASTIC CEREBRAL PALSY

Categories: Neurological

This randomised study assessed parent's perceptions of the benefits of 6 months of acupuncture or osteopathy treatment of 50 children with spastic cerebral palsy. 96% of parents reported improvements, the most frequent of which were better use of the arms or legs (61% and 68%) and more restful sleep (39% and 68%) in the osteopathic and acupuncture groups respectively.Improved mood and bowel moveme ...

ACUPUNCTURE FOR PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY

Categories: Neurological

In a clinical trial of 21 HIV infected individuals with peripheral neuropathy treated by acupuncture, it was found that the treatment significantly reduced pain, aching, burning, pins and needles and numbness of the hands and feet. 10 treatments were given over a 5-week period. (J Altern Complement Med. 2004 Jun;10(3):449-55).

ACUPUNCTURE INCREASES CEREBRAL GLUCOSE METABOLISM IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE

Categories: Neurological

A small Chinese study has investigated the effects of acupuncture on the brain of Parkinson's disease patients using positron emission tomography (PET). Five patients received scalp-acupuncture together with Madopar (levodopa and benserazide hydrochloride), while the other five received Madopar only. PET scans before and after five weeks of acupuncture treatment showed increased glucose metabolism ...

NEIGUAN P-6 FOR MOTION SICKNESS

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

A study on the effects of acupressure at the point Neiguan P-6, placed subjects in an optokinetic drum for a twelve minute rotation period. The subjects in the P-6 acupressure group reported significantly less nausea than those in dummy-point acupressure, sham P-6 acupressure and control groups. They also showed significantly less abnormal gastric myoelectric activity. (Aviation Space & Enviro ...

ACUPUNCTURE AS AN ANTI-EMETIC

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

A review of 33 controlled trials into the use of acupuncture as an anti-emetic in pregnancy and following chemotherapy and surgery shows its effectiveness. In four trials where acupuncture was given under anaesthesia it was found to be equal to or inferior to controls. In the other 29 trials it was statistically superior to controls in 27 cases. The review was carried out by the UK's Research Coun ...

NEIGUAN P-6 AND NAUSEA

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

In this single-blind randomised study, two groups of patients suffering post-operative nausea and vomiting lasting longer than ten minutes were respectively treated by i. needling at bilateral Neiguan P-6, and ii. needling of a 'dummy' point near the elbow. In both groups, needling attempted to obtain deqi, i.e. tingling, heaviness or numbness which occasionally radiated from the site of needling, ...

ACUPUNCTURE AND POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

A double-blind randomised controlled study of acupuncture versus a placebo was carried out on 81 patients scheduled for day case gynaecological laparoscopic surgery. The acupuncture patients who received treatment at Neiguan P-6 showed a 65% reduction in postoperative nausea and vomiting in hospital compared to 35% in the placebo group and a 69% compared to 31% reduction after discharg ...

ACUPUNCTURE & STRABISMUS SURGERY

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

The effect of stimulating Tianzhu BL-10, Dazhu BL-11 and Yanglingquan GB-34 by needeless acuplasters to control vomiting in children (age 3 to 14) after strabismus surgery was evaluated by comparing them with a group who received placebo treatment. The overall postoperative vomiting incidence in the acuplaster patients in a 24 hour period was 29.4% as opposed 64.5% in the placebo group (Acta Anaes ...

ACUPUNCTURE AND SICKNESS

Categories: Nausea & vomiting, Pregnancy & labour

regnant women who experience exceptionally severe morning sickness may benefit from acupuncture in addition to standard treatment, researchers in Sweden report. In a study of 33 pregnant women, only 7 of 17 women were still vomiting 3 days after acupuncture compared with 12 of 16 women who received a sham acupuncture treatment, according to findings published in the October issue of the Journal of ...

ACUPRESSURE & MORNING SICKNESS

Categories: Nausea & vomiting, Pregnancy & labour

In a study to assess the benefits of acupressure at Neiguan P-6 in the treatment of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, researches at Lund University in Sweden asked 60 pregnant women suffering from symptoms to a) wear a wrist band at Neiguan P-6, b) wear a wristband at a placebo point, and c) wear no wrist band. Both the Neiguan P-6 and the placebo groups showed a reduction in nausea and vomiting, ...

ELECTROACUPUNCTURE AND NAUSEA/VOMITING

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

In a study carried out at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, a sham-controlled, double-blinded study was designed to examine the antiemetic efficacy of transcutaneous acupoint electrical stimulation (TAES) in a surgical population (laparoscopic cholecystectomy) at high risk of developing nausea and vomiting. 221 outpatients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy with a standardi ...

ACUPUNCTURE & VOMITING

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

Patients given cyclophosphamide infusion for rheumatic diseases, suffer from nausea and vomiting as a side-effect. To assess the potential benefits of acupuncture in reducing these symptoms, a Swedish study compared the use of ondansetron (an anti-emetic) alone, or ondansetron in combination with needling of Neiguan P-6 and/or ear points. Compared with ondansetron treatment alone, the combined acu ...

ACUPUNCTURE & MORNING SICKNESS

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

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 ...

ACUPUNCTURE & NAUSEA

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

A systematic review of 26 acupuncture trials into the use of Neiguan P-6 for post-operative nausea has found that it is as successful as routine anti-sickness medication and is both cheaper and has fewer side effects. (http://www.cochrane.org//cochrane/revabstr/ab003281.htm).

ACUPUNCTURE/ACUPRESSURE FOR CHEMOTHERAPY VOMITING

Categories: Cancer, Nausea & vomiting

A systematic review published by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organisation that evaluates medical research, pooled results from nine studies into the use of acupuncture for post-chemotherapy vomiting. Overall, 22% of patients who received acupuncture suffered vomiting the first day after chemotherapy, compared to 33% of those who did not receive acupuncture. When acupressure studie ...

CHINESE HERBS FOR CHEMOTHERAPY TOXICITY

Categories: Cancer, Nausea & vomiting

Traditional Chinese herbal medicine (TCHM) does not reduce the toxic effects of chemotherapy on patient's blood cell populations, however it does have a significant impact on control of nausea. One hundred and twenty patients with early-stage breast or colon cancer who required postoperative chemotherapy were enrolled. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either individualised TCHM presc ...