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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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Post-treatment expectations influence improvement in patients with migraine
Categories: Headache & migraine, Acupuncture research
A high level of expectation after acupuncture treatment rather than at baseline is associated with better long-term outcome improvements in patients with migraine ...
Antioxidant effects of acupuncture
Categories: Acupuncture research
Accumulating evidence demonstrates that acupuncture has an antioxidant effect, and can prevent oxidative stress which causes pathophysiological changes involved in various disease processes ...
Body ownership influences physiological responses during acupuncture stimulation
Categories: Acupuncture research
An international team has found that modification of body ownership results in changes in both local blood flow and brain responses during acupuncture needle stimulation ...
Four needles better than two
Categories: Acupuncture research
Using four needles may be superior to two needles in generating rapid pain relief with acupuncture, according to British investigators ...
'Four Gates' has specific effects on brain
Categories: Acupuncture research
The acupuncture point combination known as the ‘Four Gates’ (Siguan - a combination of bilateral Hegu L.I.-4 and Taichong LIV-3) can elicit specific activities in the brain, conclude Chinese scientists ...
Instructions given to patient can affect response to needling
Categories: Acupuncture research
Instructions given to a patient can significantly affect therapeutic outcomes and the relationship between acupuncture intensity and clinical response, according to research from Korea ...
Context is important for effect of needling
Categories: Acupuncture research
The context in which a needle is inserted into the body makes a difference to how it affects the brain ...
Needling Shenmen HE-7 affects heart rate variability
Categories: Heart / Cardiac, Acupuncture research
Chinese scientists have shown that acupuncture at Shenmen HE-7 can affect cardiac autonomic neural regulation in healthy subjects ...
Getting High on Acupuncture Research
Categories: Acupuncture, Acupuncture research
Headache is the prestigious peer-reviewed journal of the American Headache Society. When they publish an article on headache and acupuncture, we would expect an informed, well-referenced piece. Read what Mel Hopper Koppelman has to say below and ...
Comment: Acupuncture for lower back pain
Categories: Acupuncture, Acupuncture research
A response to a study debunking acupuncture for back pain ...
Auricular treatment can manage pain
Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research
Ear acupuncture and acupressure can effectively manage pain, according to a meta-analysis ...
Needling technique differs greatly between practitioners
Categories: Acupuncture research
Korean scientists have examined acupuncture practitioners' motion patterns during needle manipulation to evaluate their consistency ...
Moxa at Shenshu BL-23 reduces reduction in renal vascular resistance
Categories: Acupuncture research
Japanese investigators have found that applying moxibustion at Shenshu BL-23 (back shu point of the Kidney) leads to a reduction in renal vascular resistance ...
Moxibustion activates macrophages to kill bacteria
Categories: Acupuncture research
An experimental study from China suggests that moxibustion generates a protective response against bacterial infection by activating macrophage autophagy ...
'Phantom acupuncture' helps tease out components of acupuncture response
Categories: Acupuncture research
A US/Korean team has developed and tested a novel form of placebo acupuncture, dubbed ‘phantom acupuncture’, which reproduces the acupuncture needling ritual without any tactile stimulation ...
Needling Taichong LIV-3 affects brain areas related to vision, movement and emotion
Categories: Acupuncture research
Chinese scientists report that acupuncture at Taichong LIV-3 can specifically affect areas of the brain related to vision, movement, emotion and pain ...
Neiguan P-6 and LIV-3 Taichong have opposite effects on brain blood flow
Categories: Acupuncture research
Data from research carried out in Italy suggests that needling the acupuncture points Neiguan P-6 and LIV-3 Taichong has markedly different effects on cerebral blood flow (CBF) ...
Ultrasound imaging supports effect of acupuncture on trigger points
Categories: Acupuncture research
Investigators from Brazil have used two-dimensional ultrasonography (2DUS) and ultrasound elastography (UE) to objectively confirm the subjective analgesic effects of acupuncture on pain from myofascial trigger points (MTrP) ...
Acupuncture reduces migraine pain via brain's pain system
Chinese scientists have shown that needling active acupoints in migraine patients reduces pain and affects key disease-affected brain regions involving pain.
Caffeine inhibits analgesic effect of acupuncture
Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research
Caffeine can inhibit the analgesic effect of acupuncture, according to animal studies carried out in Brazil. Mice subjected to plantar incision surgery were treated with both manual acupuncture and electro-acupuncture at the acupoint Sanyinjiao SP-6 after administration of acute or chronic doses of caffeine. Researchers found that acute pre-administration of caffeine completely reversed acupunctur ...
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