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Is acupuncture a placebo therapy?

Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2014
Complementary therapies such as acupuncture are suggested to have enhanced placebo effects. Numerous high quality randomized controlled trials found that acupuncture is no better than its placebo control; however, patients in both real and sham acupuncture groups report clinically meaningful symptom improvements.
Yong-Chen, Zheng, Ting-Ting, Yuan, Tao, Liu   +2 more
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Integrating Traditional Medicine to Improve the Care of Persistent Physical Symptom

Health Care Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Persistent physical symptom (PPS) is a common condition in sub‐healthy population and patients with chronic disease, and significantly influences the quality of life. Many PPS cannot be explained by any known disease, and thereby are attributed to socio‐psychological reasons and treated by psychological interventions, such as cognitive ...
Huai‐Yu Wang, Ji Wang, Qi Wang
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Gender and age differences in the global burden of peptic ulcers: an analysis based on GBD data from 1990 to 2021

Frontiers in Medicine
BackgroundPeptic ulcer (PU) is one of the most common gastrointestinal diseases worldwide. With advances in medical technology, the global disease burden of PU has been effectively controlled. However, the most recent evidence regarding the global burden
Ruirui Tan, Dan Zhao, Xiaomei Zhang, Tong Liu, Chao Han, Zhongcheng Li, Chenxi Qi, Zhaohui Wang   +7 more
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Acupuncture therapy in treating migraine: results of a magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging study

Journal of Pain Research, 2018
Background Acupuncture has been proven to be effective as an alternative therapy in treating migraine, but the pathophysiological mechanisms of the treatment remain unclear.
Tao Gu, Lei Lin, Yun Jiang, Juan Chen, R. D'Arcy, Min Chen, Xiaowei Song   +6 more
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A rare case of perineal neuralgia treated with ultrasound‐guided nerve block combined with water separation

Ibrain, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 106-111, Spring 2025.
A middle‐aged man presented with a right indirect inguinal hernia in November 2020 and underwent laparoscopic high ligation of the right hernial sac. Intermittent acupuncture‐like pain in the skin of the right scrotum and medial thigh occurred 1 month after surgery and lasted for 6 months. Under ultrasound guidance, ilioinguinal nerve and genitofemoral
Yong Wang, Min Wang, Rui Jiang, Zhao‐Qiong Zhu, Guang‐Cai Li   +4 more
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INCREASING FITNESS WITH ACUPUNCTURE AND HERBS

Journal of Vocational Health Studies, 2020
Background: Fitness is the state of the body does not experience significant fatigue after doing routine activities. While in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), fitness is defined as the good circulation of Qi-energy and Xue-blood that can cause the ...
Ario Imandiri, Diarista Salfa Pratama, Abdul Rahman   +2 more
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Research progress on the role of inflammatory mediators in the pathogenesis of epilepsy

Ibrain, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 44-58, Spring 2025.
In the central nervous system, activated immune cells lead to the overproduction of inflammatory mediators through the corresponding signal pathway. Under the stimulation of inflammatory factors, neuroinflammation ultimately occurs. Overexpression of inflammatory mediators and activated immunocytes plays an important role in the emergence and ...
Yue Yu, Fei‐Ji Sun
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Acupuncture-related therapy for chronic cough: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Integrative Medicine Research
Background: Despite the high prevalence and socioeconomic burden of chronic cough, there remains an unmet medical need for treatment. Acupuncture may be promising for treating chronic cough with various pathophysiologies involving several ...
Boram Lee, Chan-Young Kwon, Yoon Kyoung Jeong, Na-Yeon Ha, Kwan-Il Kim, Beom-Joon Lee, Jun-Hwan Lee   +6 more
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Acupressure to Reduce Treatment-Related Symptoms for Children With Cancer and Recipients of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. [PDF]

, 2019
BackgroundWe describe the study design and protocol of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial (RCT) Acupressure for Children in Treatment for a Childhood Cancer (ACT-CC).ObjectiveTo describe the feasibility and effectiveness of an acupressure ...
Adcock, Robyn, Banerjee, Anu, Dvorak, Christopher C, Golden, Carla, Hartogensis, Wendy, Hecht, Frederick M, Hu, Hiroe, Lown, E Anne, Mangurian, Christina, Melton, Alexis, Morgan, Michael, Shear, Deborah, Vittinghoff, Eric   +12 more
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Exploration of acupuncture therapy in the treatment of MCI patients with the ApoE ε4 gene based on the brain-gut axis theory [PDF]

, 2023
Yuanyuan Jin, Jin Chen, Qichen Chai, Jianfang Zhu, Xiaoqing Jin   +4 more
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