Search results for: 'Si Yin Jian'

A study of 593 women at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, who were less than 14 weeks pregnant and suffered from symptoms of nausea or vomiting, compared traditional acupuncture, simple acupuncture at Neiguan P-6 only, sham acupuncture and no acupuncture. The acupuncture patients received two 20-minute sessions of acupuncture in the first week followed by one weekly treatme ...

A study of 593 women at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, who were less than 14 weeks pregnant and suffered from symptoms of nausea or vomiting, compared traditional acupuncture, simple acupuncture at Neiguan P-6 only, sham acupuncture and no acupuncture. The acupuncture patients received two 20-minute sessions of acupuncture in the first week followed by one weekly treatme ...

A randomised prospective controlled clinical study examined the effect of luteal-phase acupuncture on the outcome of in vitro fertilisation/intracytoplasmic sperm injection.

Tuina therapy can significantly increase postpartum milk production in women with insufficient lactation following Caesarian section ...

Acupuncture does not significantly improve upon conventional treatment for breast cancer survivors with persistent breast cancer-related lymphoedema ...

Radiation therapy for cancer can induce secondary xerostomia (dryness of the mouth) which may be resistant to conventional pilocarpine therapy.

Acupuncture and moxibustion may stimulate anti-cancer immunity, protect bone marrow cells and minimise drug side-effects in colon cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, according to a pilot study carried out in Portugal ...

A study carried out in Bergen, Norway has demonstrated the value of acupuncture in preventing urinary tract infections in women who are especially prone to repeated recurrences. 67 such women (3 or more attacks in the past 12 months) were randomly divided into an acupuncture group, a sham acupuncture group and a control (no treatment). Acupuncture was given twice a week for 4 weeks mainly at Zhong ...

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 ...

Acupuncture applied at term may be effective in reducing the rate of labour induction performed for post-dates pregnancy ...