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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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Tai chi leads to better heart disease prognosis
Categories: Heart / Cardiac, Tai chi
Taking part in a six-month tai chi (TC) exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation program may lead to a better prognosis for cardiac events in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Fifty-four Taiwanese patients were randomised to usual care or usual care plus TC (weekly 90 minute sessions of Yang style TC) for six months. A treadmill exercise test was performed to evaluate their exercise test r ...
Acupuncture improves exercise tolerance in heart failure patients
Categories: Heart / Cardiac
Acupuncture can improve the exercise tolerance of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF), potentially by improving skeletal muscle function. Seventeen patients with CHF, all receiving optimised heart failure medication, were randomised into a verum acupuncture (VA) and placebo acupuncture (PA) group. The maximum distance that patients were capable of walking in six minutes increased signific ...
SP-3 affects autonomic cardiovascular responses
Categories: Heart / Cardiac
Acupuncture at Taibai SP-3 affects the autonomic control of blood flow by enhancing parasympathetic function. In a randomised crossover trial, five healthy volunteers received acupuncture at either Taibai SP-3 or Rangu KID-2 for five minutes. Ultrasound measurements of blood flow were recorded at the radial artery before, during and after acupuncture stimulation. Cardiovascular autonomic data (mea ...
Acupuncture protects the heart during surgery
Categories: Heart / Cardiac
Acupuncture pre-treatment can help prevent damage to the heart during valve replacement operations. Reperfusion injury (damage to tissue caused when blood supply returns after a period of ischaemia) contributes to postoperative morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing open-heart surgery. In a new Chinese study, 60 patients were randomly allocated to electroacupuncture (EA) pre-treatment or a ...
ACUPUNCTURE IN ANGINA PECTORIS
Categories: Heart / Cardiac
A study carried out at the Department of Internal Medicine P. Rigshospitalet in Denmark found that acupuncture treatment decreased the time of onset of attacks of angina pectoris pain by 10%, reduced nitroglycerin consumption by 58%, and reduced the attack rate by 38%. There was additionally a noticeable improvement in exercise tolerance among the treated patients. The study also showed that there ...
ACUPUNCTURE HELPS HEART PATIENTS
Categories: Heart / Cardiac
Research carried out at the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine has shown that acupuncture can dramatically reduce the pressure on the heart in patients with severe heart failure. Over-activation of the sympathetic nervous communication between the brain and the heart is common in heart failure patients, with advanced heart failure patients often having two or three times more ...
Acupuncture and cardiovascular disease
Categories: Heart / Cardiac, Hypertension
The Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of California has received a $2 million, five-year federal grant to continue studying how acupuncture can help treat cardiovascular illnesses such as heart disease, hypertension and arrhythmias. This grant extends a previous five-year grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The study, lead by Dr. John Longhurst, a ...
ANGINA PECTORIS: INTEGRATED REHABILITATION
Categories: Heart / Cardiac
This study was designed to compare the outcomes and treatment costs of patients with advanced angina pectoris who were treated with integrated rehabilitation compared to known statistics for similar patients treated by surgery or other care. 168 patients took part in the study, 103 of whom were candidates for invasive treatment and 63 of whom had been rejected for such treatment due to the risk of ...
TAI CHI FOR HEART FAILURE
Categories: Heart / Cardiac
Tai chi can enhance sleep stability in patients with chronic heart failure. Researchers analysed 24-hour continuous ECG data obtained in a clinical trial of tai chi in 18 patients with heart failure. At 12 weeks, those who participated in tai chi showed a significant increase in EEG parameters that indicated improved sleep stability. These improvements were correlated with better disease-specific ...
Acupuncture for cardiac arrhythmias
Categories: Heart / Cardiac
A review article from authors in the USA supports the use of acupuncture in treating cardiac arrhythmias. According to the eight studies reviewed, 87% to 100% of participants converted to normal sinus rhythm after acupuncture. However, the limited methodological quality of current studies necessitates better-controlled clinical trials. (The effects of acupuncture on cardiac arrhythmias: a literatu ...
HERBAL MEDICINES SAY NO TO CIRCULATORY DISEASE
Categories: Heart / Cardiac
Research from the USA suggests that traditional Chinese herbal medicines (TCMs) used to treat cardiovascular disease may act by producing large amounts of nitric oxide (NO). NO is a chemical messenger molecule that is crucial to the cardiovascular system because of its vasodilatory action. It promotes blood flow through the heart and circulatory system, eliminates blood clots, lowers high blood pr ...
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