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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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Tuina helps with paediatric diarrhoea
Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics, General discussion
Paediatric tuina shows a significant effect on reducing symptoms in children with acute diarrhoea, according to Chinese investigators ...
Tai chi effective for management of chronic illness
Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, General discussion
An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses evaluating the evidence of tai chi for chronic illness management shows that it can improve physical function ...
Tai chi beneficial in scleroderma
Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, General discussion
Tai chi has a positive effect on patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). Turkish researchers randomly divided 28 patients into tai chi or home exercise groups ...
Chinese herbs can protect organs from injury by COVID
A review of traditional Chinese herbs used in the treatment of COVID-19 suggests that they may be able to protect patients from organ damage through multiple immunomodulatory mechanisms ...
Chinese medicine adds benefit to COVID care
Chinese herbal medicine (CHM), added to standard care (SC), can help to improve treatment outcomes in COVID-19 cases ...
Chinese herbal formula speeds up COVID recovery
A Chinese herbal product, Lianhuaqingwen capsules (LH capsules), can help people recover faster from COVID-19, according to research carried out in China ...
Mawangdui medical texts describe physical, rather than esoteric, anatomy
Categories: Herb research, General discussion
A team of British and American authors argue that the ancient Chinese Mawangdui texts, dating to the second to third century BCE represent the oldest surviving anatomical atlas in the world ...
Agreement on TCM diagnoses is poor in published studies
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 ...
Moxibustion enhances anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects of RA drugs
Categories: General discussion
Moxibustion can enhance the anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects of conventional medicine in patients with rheumatoid arthritis ...
US acupuncture workforce data
Categories: General discussion
Information collected by two prominent acupuncture organisations has been analysed to produce an overview of acupuncturist workforce data for the the USA ...
Papers challenge NICE's removal of acupuncture from UK pain guidelines
Categories: Back, General discussion
In stark contrast to the increasing medical acceptance of acupuncture and other complementary therapies in the United States, and their growing inclusion in medical guidelines for doctors who are treating pain conditions, the UK's National Institute ...
JCM issue 114 June 2017 now published
Categories: General discussion
The latest issue of the Journal (number 114 June 2017) has now been published, packed full with our usual rich mix of clinical and theoretical articles ...
Top marks for acupuncturists in patient satisfaction survey
Categories: Pain, General discussion
A new landmark survey of 89,000 acupuncture patients being treated for musculoskeletal pain has found that 93 per cent report their acupuncturist was successful in treating their primary complaint ...
Extreme joy can damage the heart
Categories: Psychological / emotional, General discussion
The emotional stress that causes chest pains and breathlessness can occur in moments of joy as well as anger, grief and fear, a Swiss study suggests ...
The future looks ! integrative
Categories: General discussion
The tide in mainstream American healthcare delivery appears to be turning towards a more integrative model, with greater inclusion of therapies formerly considered ‘complementary and alternative’ ...
Dangerous and biased decision by UK's NICE on acupuncture and back pain
Categories: General discussion
“The criteria that NICE used to evaluate acupuncture for low back pain are not the same as those used for other physical therapies, and therefore the recommendations are founded on evidence-biased medicine rather than on evidence-based&nbs ...
Acupuncture research leads to unexpected insights
Categories: General discussion
Research into acupuncture has rippled out to inform wider areas of biomedical research, practice and policy ...
Positive communication raises expectations
Categories: General discussion
Positive verbal communication between clinician and patient can increase patients’ expectations regarding the effects of acupuncture treatment, Swedish researchers have found ...
Science gets behind traditional medicine
Categories: General discussion
The journal Science has just published a three-part series, ‘The Art and Science of Traditional Medicine’, which presents a persuasive set of arguments for the integration of traditional Chinese medicine into modern medical prac ...
As tigers go extinct, Chinese medicine switches to lions
Categories: Herbal medicine, General discussion
As tiger populations in the wild continue to dwindle towards extinction, it seems that attention is turning towards lion bones as replacements for the Chinese medicine trade.
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