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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.

Acupuncture improves autistic symptoms

Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics, Psychological / emotional, Autism

A short course of electro-acupuncture (EA) can improve specific functions in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), especially language comprehension and self-care ability. Fifty-five children with ASD were randomly assigned to an EA group or a sham electro-acupuncture (SEA) group. The EA group received electro-acupuncture at eight acupoints: Sishencong (M-HN-1), Yintang (M-HN-3), Neiguan P ...

Acupuncture better than steroids for carpal tunnel syndrome

Categories: Hand & wrist

A group from Taiwan has demonstrated that short-term acupuncture treatment can result in long-term improvement in carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and that acupuncture produces significantly better results than oral steroid treatment. Seventy-seven patients with mild-to-moderate idiopathic CTS were randomised to either four weeks of either oral prednisolone or twice-weekly acupuncture sessions. The pa ...

Ear acupressure improves children's visual health

Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics, Eye disorders

A small Taiwanese pilot study has found that ear acupressure may facilitate improved visual health for children

Acupuncture better than standard treatment for lazy eye

Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics, Eye disorders

A randomised controlled trial carried out in Hong Kong has shown that acupuncture to be effective in treating anisometropic amblyopia (lazy eye)

Acustimulation reduces paediatric post-operative nausea & vomiting

Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics

Stimulation of the Neiguan P-6 acupuncture point is an effective adjunctive treatment for post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in children undergoing adenoidectomy or tonsillectomy. A pragmatic randomised controlled trial carried out in Norway enrolled 154 children who were undergoing day-surgery. The intervention group received acupuncture at Neiguan P-6 bilaterally for a median of 21 minute ...

Acu-Tens on Dingchuan improves COPD

Categories: Respiratory disorders

Four weeks of Acu-TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on acupoints) treatment has been shown to improve physical and psychosocial function in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), probably due to bronchodilation induced by elevation in beta-endorphin levels. In a Hong Kong study, twenty-eight COPD patients were randomly allocated to receive four weeks of 45 minu ...

Acupuncture improves symptoms after cancer therapy

Categories: Cancer, Nose and mouth

Three recent pieces of research on the benefits of acupuncture to support conventional medicine in the treatment of cancer.

Acupuncture more effective than drugs for gastric emptying

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

A German study has demonstrated that acupuncture is more effective than drug therapy for the treatment of delayed gastric emptying in critically ill patients who are being fed by nasogastric tube.

Acupuncture reduces androgen levels in PCOS

Categories: Gynaecology, Infertility

Low-frequency electro-acupuncture (EA) can improve hyperandrogenism and menstrual frequency in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), according to

Edzard Ernst holds forth again

Categories: General discussion, Comment

A single injury - let alone a fatality - caused by acupuncture is one too many, but we have to wonder why Dr. Edzard Ernst, Chair in Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter, keeps emphasising the risks of acupuncture.

Acupuncture prevents recurrence of arrhythmia after cardioversion

Categories: Heart / Cardiac

An Italian team has found that acupuncture treatment prevents arrhythmic recurrences after cardioversion in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation

Acupuncture helps with acne

Categories: Skin / dermatology

Acupuncture treatment of acne vulgaris can reduce the number of inflammatory lesions and improve

'Walking is man's best medicine.' Hippocrates

Categories: General discussion, Comment

There are a number of health trends that are causing increasing concern - especially to policy makers and health funders in developed countries with a growing proportion of ageing people.

Deqi makes no difference to osteoarthritis pain relief

Categories: Acupuncture research

Research carried out by UK scientists suggests that the intensity of de qi has no effect on the pain relief obtained from acupuncture by patients with osteoarthritis (OA).

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Acupuncture alleviates breast cancer hot flushes

Categories: Cancer

Traditional acupuncture (TA) offers an effective non-pharmaceutical method of managing the hot flushes and night sweats (HF&NS) associated with taking tamoxifen for breast cancer, according to

Acupuncture reduces colicky crying

Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics

Swedish researchers have shown that minimal acupuncture can shorten the duration and reduce the intensity of crying in infants with colic.

The European Directive on Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products - what's it got to do with you?

Categories: Herbal medicine, Comment

This is a piece of EU legislation which could cause major problems for UK herbalists and their patients when it comes into force on 1st April 2011.

Acupuncture benefits ICSI in certain kinds of infertility

Categories: Infertility

A Brazilian team has found that the ability of acupuncture to benefit fertility treatment may depend on the cause of the woman's infertility. Four hundred and sixteen patients undergoing intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles were randomised to either a control group or acupuncture (performed immediately before and after embryo transfer). When the results were analysed as a whole, no influence of ...

Acupuncture - a treatment to die for? A review of Edzard Ernst's article in The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Categories: Acupuncture, Comment

Acupuncture – a treatment to die for? A review of Edzard Ernst's article in The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine In his editorial, Ernst says of acupuncture that, "serious complications, including deaths, have been noted with some regularity".(Ernst 2010) This, along with the dramatic title, is a disturbing statement. However after reading the article one is left wi ...