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Research Archive
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Tai chi for autonomic balance in heart disease
Categories: Heart / Cardiac, Tai chi
Tai chi training can help regulate the autonomic nervous system in patients with coronary heart disease
Acupuncture as breastfeeding support
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
An Italian pilot study has found that acupuncture can support women in maintaining breastfeeding for longer.
Why do these people think they are so clever?
This week a prime UK Sunday paper (The Sunday Times) carried a review for a book about the aging process (You're Looking Very Well by Lewis Wolpert) ...
Chinese to develop medicines to fight superbugs
Categories: Herbal medicine, General discussion
Chinese pharmaceutical companies and research institutions have joined forces in a concerted effort to develop traditional Chinese medicines to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Intensive meditation boosts longevity enzyme
Categories: Lifestyle research
Positive psychological changes that occur during meditation training are associated with increased activity of telomerase
Tea drinking cuts heart disease mortality
Categories: Lifestyle research, Diet research
Drinking several cups of tea daily can cut your risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) by more than a third, according to Dutch researchers.
Morning exercise makes up for unhealthy diet
Categories: Lifestyle research
Exercising first thing in the morning before breakfast can significantly lessen the detrimental effects of an unhealthy diet.
Exercise prevents the common cold
Categories: Lifestyle research
Regular exercise may prevent the common cold, according to a study by US researchers.
A response to "Acupuncture: Does it alleviate pain and are there serious risks? A review of reviews" by E. Ernst, Myeong Soo Lee and Tae-Young Choi, PAIN®, Volume 152, Issue 4 (April 2011)
Categories: Acupuncture research, General discussion
Edzard Ernst's latest paper on acupuncture continues his endeavours to demonstrate that acupuncture is both more harmful and less effective than is claimed.
A few hours of meditation is enough to change brain structure
Categories: Lifestyle research
A collaborative study by scientists from China and the USA has found that 11 hours of meditation can induce positive structural changes in an area of the brain that helps regulate behaviour
Acupuncture-like TENS less effective in opioid-treated patients
Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research
A Canadian study has compared the analgesic effect of conventional (high frequency) and acupuncture-like (low frequency) TENS between a group of opioid-treated patients and a group of opioid-naive patients
Neck pain: does the number of needles matter?
Categories: Neck, Acupuncture research
Italian researchers have investigated the 'dose' of acupuncture that is necessary to achieve an adequate analgesic effect in patients with cervical myofascial pain syndrome (MPS)
Qigong benefits neck pain
A German team has compared qigong and exercise therapy in patients with chronic neck pain. One hundred and twenty-three patients with chronic neck pain (VAS ? 40 mm) were randomised to six months (18 sessions) of either qigong or exercise therapy, or to a waiting list (no treatment). After six months, a significant difference was seen between the qigong and waiting list control groups in terms of ...
Acupuncture more effective than sham acupuncture for chronic pelvic pain syndrome
An earlier Drum Tower posting (06/09/2010) described some of the exciting research into the use of acupuncture for treating chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) in men - a refractory disorder for which acupuncture is showing signs of offering effective treatment. Another hot issue at the moment is whether true (verum) acupuncture can be shown to be more effective than sham acupuncture, follow ...
Acupuncture found to help reduce hot flushes
Evidence being presented this weekend at the largest UK acupuncture research forum, the ARRC Symposium, will highlight the benefits of acupuncture to reduce the severity and frequency of hot flushes in postmenopausal women.
Sanyinjiao SP-6 acupressure helps with labour pain
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
Acupressure can reduce pain during the active phase of labour, according to a randomised controlled trial carried out by Swedish researchers in a public hospital in India. Two hundred and twenty-two women were randomised to receive one of three interventions: acupressure at Sanyinjiao Sp-6 on both legs during contractions over a 30-minute period (acupressure group), light touch at the same point o ...
Acupuncture not effective for post-term induction
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A Danish team has concluded that acupuncture may not be effective for the induction of labour in post-term women. In a double-blind multicentre randomised controlled study, 125 healthy women with uneventful pregnancies at gestational week 41(+6) were randomised into two groups. The intervention group received acupuncture twice on the same day at Baihui DU-20, Zhiyin BL-67, Hegu L.I.-4 and Sanyinji ...
Qigong effective for tinnitus
Categories: Qigong, Ear/hearing disorders
German researchers report that qigong training could be a useful adjunctive therapy for patients with tinnitus. Eighty tinnitus patients were randomly assigned to an intervention group, consisting of 10 qigong training sessions over five weeks, or a waiting-list control group. Compared with the control group, qigong participants experienced improvement in tinnitus severity. In a subgroup of patien ...
Hemp Seed Pill eases constipation
Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders, Herb research
Hemp Seed Pill (HSP, [Ma Zi Ren Wan]) can improve the symptoms of patients suffering from functional constipation (FC). Researchers from Hong Kong carried out a rigorously designed two-part study to assess the efficacy of HSP in treating FC. In trial I, involving 96 subjects, the optimal dosage of HSP was determined from among three doses (2.5g, 5.0g and 7.5g, twice daily). A dose of 7.5g twice da ...
Acupuncture for rheumatic conditions - systematic review
An overview of systematic reviews of acupuncture for rheumatic conditions has found relatively clear evidence to suggest that it is effective for osteoarthritis (OA), low back pain and lateral elbow pain, but ineffective for fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis. From their evaluation of the thirty systematic reviews that met their inclusion criteria, the authors concluded that for OA, low back pa ...
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