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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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Tai chi improves risk of chronic disease in senior cancer survivors

Categories: Tai chi

Tai chi (TC) exercise may help reduce risk factors for chronic disease in senior survivors of cancer ...

Baduanjin (8 Brocades) qigong improves physical health

Categories: Qigong

Chinese investigators report that baduanjin qigong training can significantly improve markers of physical health in healthy adults. One hundred and ten subjects aged from 20 to 59 years were randomly assigned to an experimental group and a control group. The experimental subjects practised baduanjin exercises three or more times per week for 30–60 minutes each time, over a period of 16-weeks ...

Tai chi improves balance in elders

Categories: Tai chi

Tai chi practice can help older adults maintain their balance, according to a study from a US author ...

Long-term tai chi prevents depression

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Tai chi

A study by a joint Chinese/Japanese research team suggests that long-term tai chi training may prevent depression. The cross-sectional survey included 529 Japanese tai chi practitioners. The authors conclude that long-term tai chi training and the mood adjustment it produces may have a beneficial effect on the prevention of depression. Long-term Tai Chi training is related to depressive symptoms a ...

Herbal formula heals diabetic ulcers

Categories: Diabetes

Treatment with the traditional Chinese medicine NF3 (composed of Huang Qi [Radix Astragali] and Di Huang [Radix Rehmanniae]) is associated with improved healing of diabetic foot ulcers, clinicians from Hong Kong have found ...

Comment: Acupuncture for lower back pain

Categories: Acupuncture, Acupuncture research

A response to a study debunking acupuncture for back pain ...

Tai chi's benefits become more obvious over time

Categories: Tai chi

The fitness benefits of tai chi for older women only become obvious if they engage in long-term practice ...

Auricular treatment can manage pain

Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research

Ear acupuncture and acupressure can effectively manage pain, according to a meta-analysis ...

Acupuncture benefits brain after stroke

Categories: Stroke

A meta-analysis by Chinese authors suggests that acupuncture has positive effects on cognitive function after stroke ...

Needling technique differs greatly between practitioners

Categories: Acupuncture research

Korean scientists have examined acupuncture practitioners' motion patterns during needle manipulation to evaluate their consistency ...

Moxa at Shenshu BL-23 reduces reduction in renal vascular resistance

Categories: Acupuncture research

Japanese investigators have found that applying moxibustion at Shenshu BL-23 (back shu point of the Kidney) leads to a reduction in renal vascular resistance ...

Moxibustion activates macrophages to kill bacteria

Categories: Acupuncture research

An experimental study from China suggests that moxibustion generates a protective response against bacterial infection by activating macrophage autophagy ...

'Phantom acupuncture' helps tease out components of acupuncture response

Categories: Acupuncture research

A US/Korean team has developed and tested a novel form of placebo acupuncture, dubbed ‘phantom acupuncture’, which reproduces the acupuncture needling ritual without any tactile stimulation ...

Needling Taichong LIV-3 affects brain areas related to vision, movement and emotion

Categories: Acupuncture research

Chinese scientists report that acupuncture at Taichong LIV-3 can specifically affect areas of the brain related to vision, movement, emotion and pain ...

Neiguan P-6 and LIV-3 Taichong have opposite effects on brain blood flow

Categories: Acupuncture research

Data from research carried out in Italy suggests that needling the acupuncture points Neiguan P-6 and LIV-3 Taichong has markedly different effects on cerebral blood flow (CBF) ...

Acupuncture affects dyspepsia patients' brains differently

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders

The effect of acupuncture on the brain is different in functional dyspepsia (FD) patients compared with healthy subjects ...

Acupuncture interrupts cluster headaches

Categories: Headache & migraine

Acupuncture can be used to interrupt cluster headaches (CH), according to a case series from Italy. Four patients with CH were treated with acupuncture as a preventive treatment, either combined with the calcium channel blocking drug verapamil, or al ...

Off-site acupuncture detrimental to embryo transfer

Categories: Infertility

A trial carried out in the USA has found that acupuncture performed off-site on the day of embryo transfer (ET) was detrimental to the success of the transfer. In a prospective, physician-blinded study ...

Acupuncture not effective in correcting breech presentation

Categories: Pregnancy & Labour

A French study has found that treatment with acupuncture and moxibustion was not effective in correcting breech presentation in the third trimester of pregnancy

Ultrasound imaging supports effect of acupuncture on trigger points

Categories: Acupuncture research

Investigators from Brazil have used two-dimensional ultrasonography (2DUS) and ultrasound elastography (UE) to objectively confirm the subjective analgesic effects of acupuncture on pain from myofascial trigger points (MTrP) ...