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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.

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Antioxidant effects of acupuncture

Categories: Acupuncture research
Accumulating evidence demonstrates that acupuncture has an antioxidant effect, and can prevent oxidative stress which causes pathophysiological changes involved in various disease processes ...
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Acupuncture is a hit with oldest professional baseball player

Categories: Lifestyle research
Baseball’s oldest major league player credits acupuncture as the secret of his longevity in the game ...
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Honeysuckle contains novel 'virological penicillin' molecule

Categories: Herbal medicine
Chinese researchers have discovered what they call the first ‘virological penicillin’, a molecule called MIR2911, which is found in the Chinese herb honeysuckle (Jin Yin Hua, Flos Lonicerae) ...
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Body ownership influences physiological responses during acupuncture stimulation

Categories: Acupuncture research
An international team has found that modification of body ownership results in changes in both local blood flow and brain responses during acupuncture needle stimulation ...
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Four needles better than two

Categories: Acupuncture research
Using four needles may be superior to two needles in generating rapid pain relief with acupuncture, according to British investigators ...
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'Four Gates' has specific effects on brain

Categories: Acupuncture research
The acupuncture point combination known as the ‘Four Gates’ (Siguan - a combination of bilateral Hegu L.I.-4 and Taichong LIV-3) can elicit specific activities in the brain, conclude Chinese scientists ...
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Instructions given to patient can affect response to needling

Categories: Acupuncture research
Instructions given to a patient can significantly affect therapeutic outcomes and the relationship between acupuncture intensity and clinical response, according to research from Korea ...
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Context is important for effect of needling

Categories: Acupuncture research
The context in which a needle is inserted into the body makes a difference to how it affects the brain ...
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Needling Shenmen HE-7 affects heart rate variability

Categories: Heart / Cardiac, Acupuncture research
Chinese scientists have shown that acupuncture at Shenmen HE-7 can affect cardiac autonomic neural regulation in healthy subjects ...
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Acupuncture improves brain connectivity in Bell's palsy

Categories: Neurological
Acupuncture can induce significant connectivity changes in the somatosensory region of the brain in people recovering from Bell’s palsy (BP) ...
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Acupuncture beneficial for glucose metabolism

Categories: Diabetes
Acupuncture may exert a beneficial effect on glucose metabolism in obese women, according to a small pilot study carried out by an international team of investigators ...
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Acupuncture reduces preoperative anxiety

Categories: Psychological / emotional
Authors of a Korean meta-analysis have concluded that acupuncture therapy aimed at reducing preoperative anxiety has a statistically significant effect relative to placebo ...
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Acupuncture for ischaemic stroke

Categories: Stroke
Current evidence provisionally demonstrates that acupuncture may compare favourably with either no acupuncture or conventional therapy for cerebral infarction, conclude the authors of a Chinese meta-analysis ...
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Acupuncture results in clinically important improvements in COPD

Categories: Respiratory disorders
An Australian systematic review concludes that acupuncture may result in clinically important improvements in QoL (quality of life) and dyspnoea in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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Acupuncture may have antipsychotic effects

Categories: Psychological / emotional
Limited evidence suggests that acupuncture may have antipsychotic effects, according to a Cochrane Database Systematic Review by Chinese authors ...
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Chinese medicine beneficial for menopause symptoms

Categories: Menopausal syndrome
A pilot study from the UK suggests that Chinese medicine treatment is beneficial for menopausal symptoms ...
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Herbs reduce need for surgery in rhinosinusitis patients

Categories: Nose and mouth
Patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) who use adjunctive traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to manage their condition are less likely to require endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) ...
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Acupuncture effective for short term relief of tennis elbow

Categories: Tennis Elbow
Manual acupuncture is an effective means of short-term pain relief for the treatment of lateral epicondylalgia ...
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Needling GB-34 activates brain impaired in Parkinson's disease

Categories: Neurological
Acupuncture stimulation at Yanglingquan GB-34 can activate brain areas known to be impaired in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) ...
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Needling KID-9 reduces alcohol cravings

Categories: Substance abuse
Needling Zhubin KID-9 can reduce alcohol cravings in alcohol-dependent patients, according to the authors of a Korean study. Twenty male alcohol-dependent patients were randomly assigned to a treatment group and a placebo group ...
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