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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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Verum acupuncture is less effective in studies with sham device controls
Categories: Acupuncture
Different types of verum acupuncture may have different effect sizes depending on what kind of sham they are compared against ...
Acupuncture normalises brain connectivity in functional dyspepsia
Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders, Acupuncture
Brain connectivity, which is altered in patients with functional dyspepsia (FD), appears to become more like that of healthy controls following acupuncture treatment ...
Acupuncture promotes relaxation by activating brain's left prefrontal cortex
Categories: Acupuncture
A study by Japanese investigators suggests that acupuncture changes the balance of activity in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of the brain toward left-dominant, resulting in anxiolytic relaxation effects ...
Cerebellar activation by deqi is important in acupuncture treatment of stroke
Categories: Stroke, Acupuncture
Chinese clinicians treating patients following ischemic stroke have found evidence that cerebellar activation by deqi may be one of the mechanisms by which acupuncture exerts its beneficial effects ...
Edzard Ernst backs off
Categories: Acupuncture
For years now Edzard Ernst has been launching a relentless campaign against acupuncture and other forms of complementary medicine ...
'Therapeutic qi' can be sensed by people receiving acupuncture needling
Categories: Acupuncture
A small study carried out by scientists in Austria suggests that people receiving acupuncture may be able to sense ‘therapeutic qi’ originating from the acupuncturist in the absence of mechanical needle stimulation ...
Acupuncture accelerates recovery from anaesthetic
Categories: Acupuncture
Acupuncture can accelerate recovery of consciousness after general anaesthetic, according to a study from Italy
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 ...
Patient belief and practitioner affect treatment outcome (with comment by Peter Deadman)
Categories: Acupuncture, Acupuncture research
Do the effects of acupuncture depend on the needling, the consultation or the practitioner? Researchers based in the UK have attempted to answer this question by quantifying the specific and non-specific effects of acupuncture on osteoarthritic (OA) ...
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 more effective than sham acupuncture for chronic pelvic pain syndrome
An earlier Drum Tower posting (06/09/2010) described some of the exciting research into the use of acupuncture for treating chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) in men - a refractory disorder for which acupuncture is showing signs of offering effective treatment. Another hot issue at the moment is whether true (verum) acupuncture can be shown to be more effective than sham acupuncture, follow ...
Acupuncture found to help reduce hot flushes
Evidence being presented this weekend at the largest UK acupuncture research forum, the ARRC Symposium, will highlight the benefits of acupuncture to reduce the severity and frequency of hot flushes in postmenopausal women.
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 ...
Acupuncture switches off brain's pain regions
Categories: Acupuncture, Comment
Recent research into how acupuncture affects the brain has improved our understanding of the complex neural mechanisms involved in the procedure and may lead to wider acceptance of the treatment by mainstream medicine.
Scientists from the UK's University of York and Hull York Medical school, working with colleagues at University College London and the University of Southampton, needled the acupun ...
Chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men
Acupuncture repeatedly demonstrates beneficial effect in this difficult and intractable disorder.