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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 AFTER BREAST CANCER SURGERY
Categories: Cancer
A Brazilian case series suggests that acupuncture can help in the rehabilitation of women following breast cancer surgery.
Acupuncture helps with dry mouth
Categories: Cancer, Nose and mouth
A small study carried out in South Korea has investigated the effects of acupuncture on objective and subjective assessment of symptom changes in patients with head and neck cancer who have with radiation-induced xerostomia (dry mouth due to lack of ...
Acupuncture for cancer-related fatigue/2
Categories: Cancer
A randomised controlled pilot study has assessed the effects of acupuncture and acupressure in managing cancer-related fatigue.
AURICULAR ACUPUNCTURE FOR CHEMO HOT FLUSHES
Categories: Cancer
A small qualitative study carried out in the UK has found that a standardised auricular acupuncture protocol delivered in small group clinics is beneficial for women suffering from hot flushes caused by hormone treatment for breast cancer.
ACUPUNCTURE & MASSAGE AFTER CANCER SURGERY
Categories: Cancer
Providing massage and acupuncture in addition to usual care results in decreased pain and depressive mood among postoperative cancer patients.
CHINESE HERBS FOR CHEMOTHERAPY TOXICITY
Categories: Cancer
Traditional Chinese herbal medicine (TCHM) does not reduce the toxic effects of chemotherapy on patients
GINSENG & CANCER
Categories: Cancer
A study of nearly 1,500 breast cancer patients in Shanghai found that having taken ginseng regularly before their diagnosis resulted in a significantly reduced chance of dying from the cancer or other causes, and that taking it before and after diagn ...
ACUPUNCTURE/ACUPRESSURE FOR CHEMOTHERAPY VOMITING
Categories: Cancer
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.
CHINESE HERBS FOR CANCER
Categories: Cancer
Hosni Mubarak ordered a global search for effective lung cancer treatments after his favourite actor died of the disease.
Acupuncture aids xerostomia
Categories: Cancer, Nose and mouth
Xerostomia(dry mouth) is a common sequela of radiation for head and neck cancer as well as a consequence of medications such as antihistamines, decongestants, antidepressants and diuretics.
ACUPUNCTURE & CANCER & PAIN
Categories: Cancer
90 patients with cancer pain that was unrelieved by medication were randomly assigned to receive a. two courses of auricular acupuncture at points detected using a point detector, b. auricular acupuncture at points where there was no signal from the ...
ACUPUNCTURE FOR TAMOXIFEN SIDE EFFECTS
Categories: Cancer
A study carried out at at Mount Vernon Hospital in Middlesex, England, has found that traditional acupuncture is able to relieve the hot flushes that many women experience when taking tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer.
Acupuncture & xerostomia (dry mouth)
Categories: Cancer, Nose and mouth
Another study has confirmed the benefit of acupuncture in the treatment of painful xerostomia (dry mouth) following radiotherapy for head or neck cancer.
Acupuncture for dry mouth
Categories: Cancer, Nose and mouth
Radiation therapy for cancer can induce secondary xerostomia (dryness of the mouth) which may be resistant to conventional pilocarpine therapy.
ACUPUNCTURE & VASOMOTOR SYMPTOMS
Categories: Cancer
A Swedish study has shown acupuncture to be effective in reducing vasomotor symptoms (hot flushes) in men following castration therapy for prostatic carcinoma.
Acupuncture and xerostomia
Categories: Cancer, Nose and mouth
Xerostomia, a condition of dryness of the mouth due to salivary dysfunction, is a common and usually irreversible side effect in patients receiving radiotherapy for head and neck cancer.
TCM AND RADIOTHERAPY
Categories: Cancer
The Chinese medicine Si Jun Zi Tang (Four Gentlemen Decoction) was found to reduce the decrease of leukocytes, erythrocytes, thrombocytes and hematocrit in irradiated mice.
ASTRAGALUS COMBINES WELL WITH CHEMOTHERAPY
Categories: Cancer
The combination of Huang Qi (Astragali Radix)-based Chinese herbal medicine and platinum-based chemotherapy is more effective in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer than the chemotherapy alone.
Acupuncture promising for hypertension care
Categories: Hypertension
The effects of acupuncture as an add-on to conventional antihypertensive management methods (medication and/or lifestyle modification) were investigated.
Acupuncture as good as drugs for hypertension
Categories: Hypertension
A rigorous, randomised, single-blind, Western trial comparing acupuncture with sham needling suggests that acupuncture may decrease blood pressure in hypertensive patients by a similar amount to that achieved using pharmaceutical therapy.
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