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Research Archive
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Laser acupuncture produces specific brain activation patterns
Categories: Acupuncture research
Laser stimulation of acupoints leads to activation of specific brain regions, with different patterns of neural activity for each acupuncture point.
Sensations of placebo needling may evoke healing response
Categories: Acupuncture research
Patients experience enhanced touch sensations (ETS) as part of non-penetrating placebo acupuncture and these may be important in the ability of placebo needling to evoke a healing response.
Acupuncture helps with medically unexplained symptoms
Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Acupuncture research
UK researchers have found acupuncture to have significant and sustained benefit for patients who frequently attend GP surgeries with medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS).
Acupuncture better than flunarizine for migraine
Categories: Headache & migraine
A Chinese multi-centre trial has found that acupuncture is as good as the drug flunarizine at reducing pain and improving quality of life for migraineurs, and more effective than the drug at decreasing the number days on which patients experience mig ...
Taichi qigong improves lung function in COPD
A three-month programme of simplified (13-form) taichi qigong (two x sixty minute sessions a week) was found to be superior to both an exercise group (walking plus breathing techniques) and a control group (usual activities) in improving symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The taichi qigong participants showed significant improvements in their lung function, activity toleranc ...
Superficial acupuncture has specific effects on the brain
Categories: Acupuncture research
Japanese style, superficial acupuncture (SA) has measurable and specific effects on the brain, according to Korean scientists.
REN-17 specifically affects heart's parasympathetic nerves
Categories: Heart / Cardiac, Acupuncture research
Japanese researchers have found strong evidence that the stimulation of Shanzhong REN-17 can specifically increase activity in the parasympathetic nerves of the heart.
Exercising in nature has added benefits
Categories: Psychological / emotional, Lifestyle research
A systematic review by UK authors has concluded that exercising in the natural environment leads to greater benefits in mental and physical wellbeing than exercising indoors.
Prolonged sitting is bad for the heart
Categories: Heart / Cardiac, Lifestyle research
Prolonged sedentary periods lead to larger waist sizes and higher blood triglyceride levels, even in subjects who exercise regularly, according to Australian investigators.
Sham acupuncture interventions are associated with large non-specific effects
Categories: Acupuncture research
A German team has carried out a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials with the aim of investigating the size of non-specific effects associated with acupuncture interventions.
Acupuncture has greater analgesic effects than non-penetrating sham
Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research
Verum acupuncture has a significantly greater analgesic effect than non-penetrating sham acupuncture (NPSA), according to a group of European researchers (including Konrad Streitberger who developed the sham acupuncture needle).
Laser acupuncture for bedwetting
Two studies have recently been published on laser acupuncture (LA) for nocturnal enuresis.
Acupressure helps treat brain injury
Categories: Neurological
US researchers have shown that acupressure treatment of subjects with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) resulted in improvements to their cognitive function.
Herbal formula reduces flu symptoms by half
Categories: Respiratory disorders, Fever/infectious diseases
A herbal formula known as Antiwei has been shown to reduce the severity of influenza symptom scores by 50%.
Chinese herbal medicine helpful during cancer treatment
Categories: Cancer
Chinese authors have reviewed the evidence for use of Chinese herbal medicines as adjunctive treatment during chemo- and radiotherapy for cancer.
TCM helps maintain immune function during chemotherapy
Categories: Cancer
Traditional Chinese medicine may help maintain immune function in women undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, according to a UK study.
Xin Yi San reduces symptoms of allergic rhinitis
Xin Yi San (XYS, magnolia flower powder) reduces nasal symptoms in patients with perennial allergic rhinitis (AR) due to its diverse immunomodulatory effects.
Acupuncturists' communication style affects treatment outcomes
Categories: Psychological / emotional, Acupuncture research
The analgesic benefits of acupuncture may be partially mediated through placebo effects related to the acupuncturist's behaviour, according to US researchers.
Ear acupuncture effective for pain management
Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research
US authors have conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies evaluating auricular acupuncture (AA) for pain management.
Artesunate should be drug of choice for malaria
Categories: Herb research, Fever/infectious diseases
Artesunate, a compound extracted from the Chinese herb Qing Hao (Artemisiae annuae Herba) should be the drug of choice for adults and children with severe malaria worldwide, according to two major new studies.
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