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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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Perceived value of placebo treatment influences pain relief
Categories: Basic research
Treatments valued at a higher price are associated with enhanced placebo analgesia, and this effect is correlated with activity in brain areas associated with expectation and reward processing ...
Agreement on TCM diagnoses is poor in published studies
Categories: Basic research
Levels of inter-rater agreement on factors pertaining to TCM diagnosis in published studies are generally low to moderate, conclude the authors of a systematic review carried out in America ...
Metabolic and microbiome modulation play a role in acupuncture's effect on hypertension
Categories: Basic research, Hypertension
Chinese researchers have used metabolomic analysis to differentiate between the effects of active and inactive acupoints in treating hypertension ...
Science helps reconcile Eastern and Western approaches to medicine
Categories: Basic research
Four studies which present opportunities to reconcile Chinese medicine theories with Western biomedicine are described in a review article by US authors ...
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