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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 reduces nausea in terminal illness
Acupuncture can reduce nausea in terminally ill patients, according to Danish investigators ...
Non-needle stimulation effective for post-operative nausea & vomiting
Categories: Nausea & vomiting
Non-needle acupoint stimulation is an effective method for reducing nausea and vomiting in female patients after breast surgery ...
Acupressure at P-6 prevents nausea and vomiting after gynae surgery
Categories: Gynaecology, Nausea & vomiting
Acupressure applied to Neiguan P-6 via a wristband is effective at preventing nausea and vomiting, and provides a viable alternative to drugs after gynaecological surgery ...
Acupuncture reduces postoperative nausea in children
Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics, Nausea & vomiting
Children receiving acupuncture plus antiemetic therapy have less risk of developing postoperative nausea and vomiting following tonsillectomy, according to a US study ...
TENS better than acupressure for post-op nausea and vomiting
Categories: Nausea & vomiting
A relief band that applies transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) at Neiguan P-6 is more effective at relieving post-operative nausea and vomiting than a wristband that applies acupressure ...
Acupuncture reduces GI distress in chemotherapy patients
Patients with advanced gastric cancer experience a significant reduction in gastrointestinal symptoms induced by chemotherapy when treated with acupuncture ...
Verum and sham acupuncture reduce need for nausea drugs in radiotherapy
Categories: Cancer, Nausea & vomiting
Radiotherapy patients who receive acupuncture need fewer anti-emetics and have better eating capacity than those receiving standard care ...
Acupuncture for nausea and vomiting during radiotherapy
Categories: Cancer, Nausea & vomiting
A Swedish pilot study has tested a modified single subject experimental design for evaluating the use of acupuncture for emesis during radiotherapy.
NEIGUAN P-6 FOR MOTION SICKNESS
Categories: Nausea & vomiting
A study on the effects of acupressure at the point Neiguan P-6, placed subjects in an optokinetic drum for a twelve minute rotation period. The subjects in the P-6 acupressure group reported significantly less nausea than those in dummy-point acupressure, sham P-6 acupressure and control groups. They also showed significantly less abnormal gastric myoelectric activity. (Aviation Space & Enviro ...
ACUPUNCTURE AS AN ANTI-EMETIC
Categories: Nausea & vomiting
A review of 33 controlled trials into the use of acupuncture as an anti-emetic in pregnancy and following chemotherapy and surgery shows its effectiveness. In four trials where acupuncture was given under anaesthesia it was found to be equal to or inferior to controls. In the other 29 trials it was statistically superior to controls in 27 cases. The review was carried out by the UK's Research Coun ...
NEIGUAN P-6 AND NAUSEA
Categories: Nausea & vomiting
In this single-blind randomised study, two groups of patients suffering post-operative nausea and vomiting lasting longer than ten minutes were respectively treated by i. needling at bilateral Neiguan P-6, and ii. needling of a 'dummy' point near the elbow. In both groups, needling attempted to obtain deqi, i.e. tingling, heaviness or numbness which occasionally radiated from the site of needling, ...
ACUPUNCTURE AND POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING
Categories: Nausea & vomiting
A double-blind randomised controlled study of acupuncture versus a placebo was carried out on 81 patients scheduled for day case gynaecological laparoscopic surgery. The acupuncture patients who received treatment at Neiguan P-6 showed a 65% reduction in postoperative nausea and vomiting in hospital compared to 35% in the placebo group and a 69% compared to 31% reduction after discharg ...
ACUPUNCTURE & STRABISMUS SURGERY
Categories: Nausea & vomiting
The effect of stimulating Tianzhu BL-10, Dazhu BL-11 and Yanglingquan GB-34 by needeless acuplasters to control vomiting in children (age 3 to 14) after strabismus surgery was evaluated by comparing them with a group who received placebo treatment. The overall postoperative vomiting incidence in the acuplaster patients in a 24 hour period was 29.4% as opposed 64.5% in the placebo group (Acta Anaes ...
ACUPUNCTURE AND SICKNESS
Categories: Nausea & vomiting, Pregnancy & labour
regnant women who experience exceptionally severe morning sickness may benefit from acupuncture in addition to standard treatment, researchers in Sweden report. In a study of 33 pregnant women, only 7 of 17 women were still vomiting 3 days after acupuncture compared with 12 of 16 women who received a sham acupuncture treatment, according to findings published in the October issue of the Journal of ...
ACUPRESSURE & MORNING SICKNESS
Categories: Nausea & vomiting, Pregnancy & labour
In a study to assess the benefits of acupressure at Neiguan P-6 in the treatment of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, researches at Lund University in Sweden asked 60 pregnant women suffering from symptoms to a) wear a wrist band at Neiguan P-6, b) wear a wristband at a placebo point, and c) wear no wrist band. Both the Neiguan P-6 and the placebo groups showed a reduction in nausea and vomiting, ...
ELECTROACUPUNCTURE AND NAUSEA/VOMITING
Categories: Nausea & vomiting
In a study carried out at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, a sham-controlled, double-blinded study was designed to examine the antiemetic efficacy of transcutaneous acupoint electrical stimulation (TAES) in a surgical population (laparoscopic cholecystectomy) at high risk of developing nausea and vomiting. 221 outpatients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy with a standardi ...
ACUPUNCTURE & VOMITING
Categories: Nausea & vomiting
Patients given cyclophosphamide infusion for rheumatic diseases, suffer from nausea and vomiting as a side-effect. To assess the potential benefits of acupuncture in reducing these symptoms, a Swedish study compared the use of ondansetron (an anti-emetic) alone, or ondansetron in combination with needling of Neiguan P-6 and/or ear points. Compared with ondansetron treatment alone, the combined acu ...
ACUPUNCTURE & MORNING SICKNESS
Categories: Nausea & vomiting
A study of 593 women at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, who were less than 14 weeks pregnant and suffered from symptoms of nausea or vomiting, compared traditional acupuncture, simple acupuncture at Neiguan P-6 only, sham acupuncture and no acupuncture. The acupuncture patients received two 20-minute sessions of acupuncture in the first week followed by one weekly treatme ...
ACUPUNCTURE & NAUSEA
Categories: Nausea & vomiting
A systematic review of 26 acupuncture trials into the use of Neiguan P-6 for post-operative nausea has found that it is as successful as routine anti-sickness medication and is both cheaper and has fewer side effects. (http://www.cochrane.org//cochrane/revabstr/ab003281.htm).
ACUPUNCTURE/ACUPRESSURE FOR CHEMOTHERAPY VOMITING
Categories: Cancer, Nausea & vomiting
A systematic review published by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organisation that evaluates medical research, pooled results from nine studies into the use of acupuncture for post-chemotherapy vomiting. Overall, 22% of patients who received acupuncture suffered vomiting the first day after chemotherapy, compared to 33% of those who did not receive acupuncture. When acupressure studie ...
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