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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.

Please note that the most twenty recent research archive items are free to view but access to the thousands of items in the archive require a journal subscription.

MOXIBUSTION EFFECTIVE FOR BREECH PRESENTATION

Categories: Gynaecology

UK researchers exploring the effects of moxibustion on breech presentation have concluded that it creates a better chance of achieving vaginal delivery. In a prospective multicentre study, 76 pregnant women were taught how to apply moxibustion and instructed to continue it at home, twice a day, for seven days. If breech presentation persisted after treatment, external cephalic version (ECV) was ca ...

ACUPUNCTURE FOR MENOPAUSAL HOT FLUSHES

Categories: Gynaecology, Menopausal syndrome

A multicentre randomised clinical study of menopausal women has concluded that acupuncture carried out in addition to usual care is associated with marked clinical improvement in hot flushes and other menopause-related symptoms. One hundred and seventy five Korean women were randomised to receive 12 sessions of acupuncture over four weeks in addition to usual care, or to usual care alone. The mean ...

Acupuncture and fibromyalgia

Categories: Fibromyaigia

Fibromyalgia is a chronic painful musculoskeletal syndrome of unknown aetiology, characterised by generalised pains in the connective tissues of the body and specific area of knotted muscle fibre - called "trigger points" which are especially painful. It is generally treated with a combination of analgesics and vigorous massage. A recent review of the literature on the treatment of fibro ...

Acupuncture passes the fibromyalgia test

Categories: Fibromyaigia

Fibromyalgia patients treated with six sessions of acupuncture experienced significant symptomatic improvement compared to a group given sham acupuncture. 50 patients with moderate to severe, recalcitrant fibromyalgia, for whom other symptom-relief treatments were ineffective, were randomly assigned to receive acupuncture or sham acupuncture (neither group knew which), administered in six sessions ...

Acupuncture effective for fibromyalgia

Categories: Fibromyaigia

Two studies have demonstrated benefit from acupuncture in the treatment of fibromyalgia. In the first, published in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, 21 patients completed the study. All received 16 treatments over eight weeks, alternating points on the back with points on the front of the body. The Fibromyalgia Impact Scores (twenty questions designed to assess how fibromyalgia affect ...

Acupuncture for assisted reproduction

Categories: Infertility

A UK based systematic review has concluded that acupuncture does not improve in-vitro fertilisation outcome.

Acupuncture regulates hormones during IVF preparation

Categories: Infertility

American researchers have investigated the effects of acupuncture on serum cortisol and prolactin in IVF patients undergoing drug-induced ovarian hyperstimulation.

Acupuncture increases IVF success

Categories: Infertility

The beneficial effect of acupuncture on fertility treatment has once again been highlighted by the results of a major scientific study.

Acupuncture improves IVF success rate

Categories: Infertility

A meta-analysis of seven clinical trials in which acupuncture was used to support embryo transfer during IVF has concluded that it improves rates of pregnancy and live birth.

Acupuncture and IVF/4

Categories: Infertility

A literature review from the USA provides an overview of the use of acupuncture as an adjunctive therapy for in vitro fertilisation (IVF).

Acupuncture has positive effect on IVF

Categories: Infertility

A randomised prospective controlled clinical study examined the effect of luteal-phase acupuncture on the outcome of in vitro fertilisation/intracytoplasmic sperm injection.

Acupuncture & IVF/1

Categories: Infertility

In a Danish study to investigate the befits of acupuncture in assisted reproduction (IVF and ICSI), women were randomly assigned to three groups.

Acupuncture & IVF/3

Categories: Infertility

Over a period of three years in a private practice 22 patients entering assisted reproduction therapy were given acupuncture.

Acupuncture, IVF & pregnancy

Categories: Infertility

A German study reported in NEWS 69, June 2002 showed that adding IVF to the treatment protocol of patients receiving IVF increased their chances of becoming pregnant by 50%. Now a further study carried out at the Reproductive Medicine and Fertility Centre in Colorado Springs, USA, has compared the pregnancy rates of 114 women, half of whom received acupuncture before and after embryo transfer, whi ...

Acupuncture reduces pain after IVF

Categories: Infertility

In this study, 286 women were randomly assigned to receive either electroacupuncture plus para-cervical block or alfentanil (a powerful analgesic) plus para-cervical block during oocyte aspiration (egg retrieval).

Acupuncture boosts fertility

Categories: Infertility

A review of the medical literature on acupuncture and female fertility published in the journal Fertility and Sterility has shown that acupuncture can help reduce stress, increase blood flow to the reproductive organs and normalise ovulation and the ...

Acupuncture aids IVF

Categories: Infertility

A recent study in Germany (the Christian-Lauritzen-Institut in Ulm) has shown that adding acupuncture to the treatment protocol of IVF patients increases their chances of becoming pregnant by nearly 50%.

Acupuncture and IVF/2

Categories: Infertility

6 female patients being treated for infertility by in vitro fertilisation were referred to acupuncture due to difficulty with follicle production despite maximum gonadotropin therapy. Acupuncture was given at the same time that they began follicle-stimulating hormone injections: 3 or 4 twice-weekly treatments, on days 1-3, 4-6, 7-9 and in some cases 9-11, with the final treatment on the day of or ...

Acupuncture & IVF

Categories: Infertility

Acupuncture may stimulate follicle development in women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF). In a small study of 6 women who all had difficulty with follicle production despite maximum gonadotropin therapy, three produced more ovarian follicles with acupuncture treatment (mean, 11.3 vs 3.9 prior to acupuncture) and all 3 conceived, although only 1 pregnancy lasted past the 1st trimester. Acupu ...

Qigong improves chronic fatigue symptoms

Categories: Fatigue

A British pilot study suggests that qigong can be used to manage the symptoms of chronic fatigue.