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Adjunctive herbal therapy beneficial in Sjogren's syndrome
Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Immunity
Chinese herbal medicine can help alleviate disease symptoms and improve quality of life for patients with primary Sjogren's syndrome (pSS), when added to standard drug therapy, according to Chinese researchers.
Herbs ease hot flushes
Categories: Menopausal syndrome
A mixture of traditional Chinese herbs thought to have weak oestrogen-like activity may help ease menopausal hot flushes, a small clinical trial suggests.
Herbal formula helps earthquake survivors with PTSD
Categories: Psychological / emotional
Chinese doctors have published a study describing the successful use of a modified form of Xiao Yao San (Free and Easy Wanderer) to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in survivors of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
Electro-stimulation of acupoints reduces postoperative pain
Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research
Acupoint electrical stimulation (AES) can effectively reduce postoperative pain and analgesic usage, according to an RCT carried out in Taiwan.
Acupuncture helps cancer patients' dry mouth
Categories: Cancer, Nose and mouth
Acupuncture given concurrently with radiotherapy can significantly reduce xerostomia (dry mouth) and improve quality of life for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Acupuncture and sham equally effective for chemo nausea
Categories: Acupuncture research
An RCT carried out by Swedish researchers has found that acupuncture which causes deqi and sham acupuncture are experienced by patients as equally effective at treating radiotherapy-induced nausea.
Electro-acupuncture as effective as drugs for labour induction
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A Brazilian group has shown that electro-acupuncture (EA) can be used to promote labour as efficiently as the prostaglandin analogue misoprostol, but with fewer obstetric complications.
Moxibustion shortens labour and reduces pain
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
Moxibustion at Sanyinjiao SP-6 may be able to markedly shorten the active phase of the first stage of labour and decrease pain due to uterine contractions, according to Taiwanese researchers.
Acupuncture reduces dental anxiety
Categories: Psychological / emotional, Dental
An Austrian research group has shown that auricular acupuncture can be used to effectively reduce anxiety in patients awaiting dental treatment.
Acupuncture helps asthma rehabilitation
Categories: Respiratory disorders
The addition of acupuncture to an inpatient asthma rehabilitation programme results in improvement in bronchial hyper-reactivity and reduced anxiety for paediatric patients.
How much could acupuncture save the NHS on back pain?
Categories: Acupuncture, Comment
At a time when reducing costs is a priority for all healthcare systems - an issue which is at the forefront of controversial National Health Service reforms in the UK - it is essential to consider different approaches to the treatment of difficult and expensive conditions. A recent Canadian study, for example, has found that patients with chronic lower back pain who receive acupuncture are signif ...
Acupuncture reduces cost of back pain
Categories: Back
Patients with low-back pain (LBP) are less likely to visit physicians for LBP after receiving acupuncture treatment, leading to reduced healthcare spending on LBP. In a case control study carried out in Canada, 201 cases in which LBP was treated with acupuncture were compared with 804 controls. Each acupuncture group case was matched with four comparison cases from the general population wit ...
Ear acupuncture enhances athletic recovery
Categories: Acupuncture research, Lifestyle research
Auricular acupuncture (AA) can enhance athletes' recovery after strenuous exercise, suggests the results of a Taiwanese study.
Mindfulness has positive effect on urban youth
Categories: Lifestyle research
Research from the USA suggests that teaching mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) to urban youths may have a positive effect on hostility levels, interpersonal relationships, school achievement and physical health.
Fatty foods limit the effect of sadness
Categories: Psychological / emotional, Diet research
Fatty foods can make people less vulnerable to sadness, even if they are unaware of the fat content in the food they are eating.
Vegetarian diet protects against diverticular disease
Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders, Diet research
A UK study has shown that vegetarians are a third less likely to suffer from diverticular disease than meat eaters.
Tai chi benefits Parkinson's patients
Categories: Neurological, Tai chi
In a four-year study of 195 subjects with mild to moderate Parkinson's disease, tai chi has been found to improve postural stability and walking ability and to reduce the risk of falling.
Very low calorie diet reverses diabetes
Categories: Diabetes, Diet research
An extreme eight-week diet can reverse type 2 diabetes in recently diagnosed patients, say British researchers.
Yoga helps women with fibromyalgia
Categories: Fibromyaigia, Yoga research
A Canadian team has found that an eight-week yoga intervention is associated with improvements in pain, psychological functioning and cortisol levels in women with fibromyalgia (FM).
Voluntary control over autonomic processes via tai chi and meditation
Categories: Tai chi
Physiological responses normally associated with involuntary autonomic thermoregulation can be voluntarily activated during a tai chi exercise.
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