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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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ACUPUNCTURE IN PRISON
Categories: Substance abuse
A Swedish study has investigated the possible benefits of giving ear acupuncture to male and female substance abusers in prison. Prisoners were offered a treatment programme comprising 14 treatments over a 4-week period. 145 prisoners received treatment at either five points selected according to the NADA-Acudetox protocol or a “non-specific control treatment” with 75% of participants ...
ACUPUNCTURE & SMOKING
Categories: Substance abuse
Research has shown that acupuncture can offer significant benefits to public health programmes to help people stop smoking. 141 smokers were assigned to receive either i. true acupuncture and anti-smoking education, ii. sham acupuncture (needles inserted near but not at traditional points) and education, or iii. education alone. All received five treatments a week for four weeks and five weeks of ...
ACUPUNCTURE AIDS OPIATE DETOXIFICATION
Categories: Substance abuse
Rapid Opiate Detoxification (ROD) is considered to be one of the most effective treatments for substance abuse but is associated with severe withdrawal symptoms. In a study to determine if acupuncture could reduce these symptoms, 40 adult males addicted to opioids and scheduled for ROD by naloxone were randomly divided into acupuncture and control groups. In the acupuncture group body acupuncture ...
CHINESE HERB CUTS ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION
Categories: Substance abuse
The Chinese herb Ge Gen (Puerariae Radix) appears to be able to reduce alcohol consumption in heavy drinkers. Those who were given the herb extract in capsule form for seven days prior to a drinking session cut their alcohol consumption by almost 50% compared to controls given a placebo. Not only did they consume fewer beers, but they took more and fewer sips and therefore consumed the beer more s ...
ACUPUNCTURE HELPS ADDICTS
Categories: Substance abuse
Acupuncture has been found to reduce drug use and withdrawal symptoms in a study carried out in Vancouver, Canada. 2,755 treatments were given on a voluntary drop-in basis at two clinics in the city. Patients who presented for treatment every ten days to two weeks demonstrated a significant reduction in drug use and a reduction in withdrawal symptoms including shakes, stomach cramps, hallucination ...
ACUPUNCTURE FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE ANXIETY
Categories: Substance abuse
An exploratory study evaluated the benefits of adding auricular acupuncture to a 21-day outpatient structured psychoeducational treatment programme for women with concurrent substance use problems, anxiety and depression. Women receiving acupuncture (n=185) reported having reduced physiological cravings for substances, felt significantly less depressed and anxious, and were better able to reflect ...
AURICULAR ACUPUNCTURE VERSUS AROMATHERAPY FOR ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL
Categories: Substance abuse
A randomised-controlled trial has compared auricular acupuncture with aromatherapy in reducing the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal and found them to be equally effective. The study, carried out in a German clinic, randomly assigned 109 inpatients undergoing alcohol withdrawal to acupuncture or aromatherapy. Participants underwent both therapies daily during the first five consecutive treatment days ...
Auricular acupuncture for smoking cessation
Categories: Substance abuse
A prospective, randomised, controlled trial has compared auricular acupuncture for smoking cessation against sham in a group of 131 Taiwanese adults. The treatment group received auricular acupuncture at Shenmen, Sympathetic, Mouth and Lung points for eight weeks. The control group received sham acupuncture at non-smoking-cessation-related auricular points (Knee, Elbow, Shoulder and Eye). The subj ...
ACUPUNCTURE HELPS OPIATE WITHDRAWAL
Categories: Substance abuse
A meta-analysis of acupuncture as an adjunctive treatment for opiate detoxification has been carried out by Chinese authors. They searched English and Chinese databases for randomised trials comparing acupuncture combined with opioid agonist treatment versus opioid agonists alone for treating symptoms of opiate withdrawal. Combined treatment was found to lower withdrawal-symptom scores, reported r ...
KUDZU CAUSES AVERSION TO ALCOHOL
Categories: Substance abuse
A synthetic derivative of the kudzu vine [Ge Gen (Puerariae Radix)] has been shown to reduce drinking and prevent relapse in a rat model of alcoholism. Kudzu contains daidzin, a substance which causes aversion to drinking alcohol. Daidzin inhibits the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH-2), which metabolises alcohol into acetaldehyde. Decreased drinking due to ALDH-2 inhibition is attributed to ...
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