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Minimal acupuncture is not a valid placebo control in randomised controlled trials of acupuncture: a physiologist's perspective

Chinese Medicine, 2009
Placebo-control of acupuncture is used to evaluate and distinguish between the specific effects and the non-specific ones. During 'true' acupuncture treatment in general, the needles are inserted into acupoints and stimulated until deqi is evoked.
Lundeberg Thomas, Näslund Jan, Lund Iréne   +2 more
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Review: Study the Role of China Acupuncture and "GI" Acupuncture as an Alternative and Complementary Therapy in the Treatment

Journal of Tropical Pharmacy and Chemistry, 2019
This article discusses the scientific literature review on Chinese acupuncture and "GI"  acupuncture as an attempt therapy many cases, besides that specifically studied the effectiveness of traditional acupuncture china to stress with "GI" acupuncture ...
Risna Agustina, Andreanus A. Soemardji, Felesia Fanty, Lia Amalia   +3 more
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Comparative efficacy and safety of NSAIDs-controlled acupuncture in the treatment of patients with primary dysmenorrhoea: a Bayesian network meta-analysis

Journal of International Medical Research, 2019
Background Acupuncture and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are used frequently to treat primary dysmenorrhoea. However, it is unclear whether this treatment greatly reduces the risk of primary dysmenorrhoea.
Falan Luo, Xinyu Huang, Xiaohui Liu, Lijun Wang, Nenggui Xu   +4 more
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Acupuncture in Patients Undergoing Cancer Therapy: Their Interest and Belief in Acupuncture is High, But Few are Using It

Integrative Cancer Therapies, 2022
Objectives: Since pre-existing expectations, that is, beliefs, in a treatment may modify outcomes, and acupuncture studies often fail to measure expectations, we wanted to investigate the use of acupuncture, interest, and belief in acupuncture effects ...
Ylva Widgren, Per Fransson, Anna Efverman   +2 more
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Meta analysis of ovulation induction effect and pregnancy outcome of acupuncture & moxibustion combined with clomiphene in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023
ObjectiveUsing Mesh Meta Analysis to evaluate the efficacy of Acupuncture & Moxibustion, Clomiphene, Acupuncture & Moxibustion combined with Clomiphene for treating Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), in order to provide evidence-based medical ...
Lijie Yang, Wanqiu Yang, Minghan Sun, Linjie Luo, Hong Ru Li, Runqing Miao, Li Pang, Yajie Chen, Kun Zou   +8 more
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Effect of acupressure on cervical ripening [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Cervical ripening is one of the main stages of initiation labor. Acupressure in Chinese medicine is considered as an invasive technique, which through reliving oxytocin ripens the cervix.
Aria, K.J., Ghobadi, K., Heshmat, R., Shakeri, N., Torkzahrani, S.   +4 more
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The Clinical study on the change of pain after needle acupuncture and needle acupuncture combined herbal acupuncture therapy in the musculoskeletal disorder

Journal of Pharmacopuncture, 2005
Objective : This study was performed to compare needle acupuncture combined herbal acupuncture therapy with only needle acupuncture therapy in VAS and pain threshold.
Kim sung-chul, Lim jeong-a, Kim sung-nam, Lee sung-yong, Lee sang-kwan, Moon hyung-cheol, Koo sung-tae, Choi sun-mi   +7 more
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Brain connectivity Patterns Dissociate action of specific Acupressure Treatments in Fatigued Breast cancer survivors [PDF]

, 2017
Funding This work was supported by grants R01 CA151445 and 2UL1 TR000433-06 from the National Institutes of Health. The funding source had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data ...
Basu, Neil, Chenevert, Thomas L., Cummiford, Chelsea, Hampson, Johnson P., Harris, Richard E., Ichesco, Eric, Zick, Suzanna M.   +6 more
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Acupuncture as a complex intervention for depression: A consensus method to develop a standardised treatment protocol for a randomised controlled trial [PDF]

, 2007
Objective: To standardise a complex intervention by defining the characteristic (specific) components of treatment for a randomised controlled trial of acupuncture as an intervention for individuals who have been diagnosed with depression using a ...
MacPherson, Hugh, Schroer, Sylvia
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Modulatory effect of acupuncture at Waiguan (TE5) on the functional connectivity of the central nervous system of patients with ischemic stroke in the left basal ganglia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
To study the influence of acupuncture at Waiguan (TE5) on the functional connectivity of the central nervous system of patients with ischemic stroke.Twenty-four patients with ischemic stroke in the left basal ganglia were randomized based on gender to ...
Junqi Chen, Jizhou Wang, Yong Huang, Xinsheng Lai, Chunzhi Tang, Junjun Yang, Junxian Wu, Tongjun Zeng, Shanshan Qu   +8 more
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