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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.

Please note that the most twenty recent research archive items are free to view but access to the thousands of items in the archive require a journal subscription.

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Cannabis useful for dementia

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Herbal medicine
Cannabis may be useful in the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease ...
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Dang Gui Shao Yao San reduces dementia symptoms

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Herbal medicine
The Chinese herbal formula Dang Gui Shao Yao San (DSS) provides clinically important reductions in symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VD) ..
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Acupuncture improves well-being for women in anorexia treatment programme

Categories: Psychological / emotional
Acupuncture can improve subjective well-being for women being treated for anorexia nervosa. ...
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Acupuncture helpful for earthquake survivors

Categories: Psychological / emotional
Acupuncture could be a useful tool for reducing pain and psychological symptoms in earthquake survivors ...
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Acupuncture enhances effects of antidepressants

Categories: Psychological / emotional
Both manual and electro-acupuncture show beneficial effects when added to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in patients with moderate to severe depression ...
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Tai chi helps elders with depression by regulating the nervous system

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Tai chi
Tai chi may alleviate depression in the elderly by modulating the autonomous nervous system, reports a Chinese research team ...
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Effect of acupuncture points on Alzheimer's reviewed

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Neurological
Chinese authors have reviewed brain imaging evidence that explains the effects of acupuncture on Alzheimer's disease ...
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Acupressure is an active ingredient of tapping therapy

Categories: Psychological / emotional
A systematic review by Australian and American authors suggests that acupressure is an active ingredient in Emotional Freedom Techniques ...
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Complementary therapies reduce depression in pregnancy

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Pregnancy & labour
Australian authors examining the effect of complementary therapies on antenatal depression have found evidence of benefit from acupuncture, massage and bright light therapy ...
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Acupuncture and herbs equivalent to antidepressants for postpartum depression

Categories: Psychological / emotional
Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine have benefits equal to, or greater than antidepressants for postpartum depression ...
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Acupuncture has specific effects in damaged brains

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Neurological
Real acupuncture produces specific changes to brain activity compared with sham acupuncture in patients with Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment  ...
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Electro-acupuncture improves psychiatric symptoms in meth addicts

Categories: Substance abuse, Psychological / emotional
Electro-acupuncture helps to improve psychiatric symptoms in methamphetamine  addicts during abstinence, and to support their rehabilitation ...
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Ear acupressure helps with nail biting

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Psychological / emotional
A research team from China has found that auricular acupressure can improve the efficacy of habit reversal treatment for nail biting, possibly by reducing anxiety ...
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Electro-acupuncture better than drugs for perimenopausal depression

Categories: Menopausal syndrome, Psychological / emotional
Electro-acupuncture (EA) treatment is more effective than drug treatment in relieving depression and improving quality of life in perimenopause ...
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Acupuncture useful for anxiety in children

Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics, Psychological / emotional
A pilot study carried out in Canada suggests that acupuncture may be useful in the treatment of paediatric anxiety ...
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Needling BL-67 can alleviate postpartum depression

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Pregnancy & labour
Acupuncture at Zhiyin BL-67 may alleviate symptoms of postpartum depression ...
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Cochrane review supports acupuncture for depression

Categories: Psychological / emotional
A Cochrane database systematic review has concluded that acupuncture may result in a moderate reduction in the severity of depression when compared with treatment as usual or no treatment ...
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Acupuncture effective for children with autism

Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics, Psychological / emotional
Acupuncture could be an effective and safe treatment for children with autism spectrum disorder ...
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Acupuncture effective for anxiety

Categories: Psychological / emotional
A systematic review carried out in Portugal concludes that there is good scientific evidence encouraging the use of acupuncture therapy to treat anxiety disorders ...
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Wen Dan Tang helpful in schizophrenia

Categories: Psychological / emotional
The Chinese herbal formula Wen Dan Tang may be helpful for people with schizophrenia, according to a Cochrane Database systematic review by Chinese authors ...
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