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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 UK-based clinical trial suggests that it is feasible to implement acupuncture in a busy radiotherapy unit, when provided by specially trained radiographers ...

For sufferers of seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR), acupuncture treatment can lead to a modest improvement in disease-specific quality of life and can reduce antihistamine use, compared with either sham acupuncture or the medication cetrizine. In a multi-centre randomised trial, German researchers randomised 422 people with SAR to receive acupuncture plus cetirizine, sham (minimal needling) acupunc ...

Review of clinical studies 1. Quantitative evaluation of spermatozoa ultrastructure after acupuncture treatment for idiopathic male infertility Twenty eight German men with idiopathic oligospermia (too few sperm), asthenospermia (poor motility) or teratozoospermia (poor morphology) received acupuncture twice a week for five weeks and were then compared to 12 men in the untreated control group. The ...

In an American study, fifteen healthy subjects were evaluated with magnetoencephalography (MEG) to map the location and timing of brain activity during low-frequency electroacupuncture (EA) and non-penetrating sham acupuncture (SA) using a metal filament at Neiguan P-6. Both EA and SA evoked brain responses in the contralateral primary somatosensory (SI) cortex. However, initial responses for EA p ...

Author Jean Song Patient Female, age 55 Symptoms Ten months since her last period, feeling disorientation, vexation, agitation and irascibility. Overwhelmed with melancholy and unease in the chest. Suffering from hot flushes, insomnia and often alarmed by nightmares; difficult defecation. Diagnosis Weak and slightly iregular pulse; white tongue fur, slimy at the root and red in colour. Pattern Id ...

Author M.M. Van Benschoten19231 Victory Blvd. Suite 151Reseda CA 91335 Abstract Mr. A, a 30 year old graduate student, was diagnosed with aplastic anemia on 11/16/94. Treatments with antithymocyte globulin, cyclosporin, prednisone, TCM formulas, and qigong therapy all failed to reduce need for transfusions. Acupoint diagnostic tests revealed multiple pathogens damaging bone marrow function, inclu ...