Search results for: 'Die Da Wan'

A Taiwanese group has evaluated the impact of auricular pellet acupressure on antioxidant status in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM).

In a Japanese study, 33 patients with mild to moderate dementia were assigned to received either Ba Wei Di Huang Wan (Eight-Ingredient Pill with Rehmannia), 7.5g/day or placebo for 8 weeks. At the end of the study period, the treatment group showed significantly improved cognitive functioning and ability to complete day-to-day activities, compared to no improvement in the placebo group. The herbs ...

Author Heiko Lade Patient Female aged 55 Symptoms This particular patient was referred by another acupuncturist who didn't use herbs and had not obtained any results using acupuncture alone. Technically she did not have Meniere's syndrome but certainly wind phlegm was active. She presented to me with the biomedical diagnosis of stibulitis (inner ear infection ) .There was a history of dizziness ...

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Headache is the prestigious peer-reviewed journal of the American Headache Society. When they publish an article on headache and acupuncture, we would expect an informed, well-referenced piece. Read what Mel Hopper Koppelman has to say below and ...

A review by Taiwanese authors provides evidence that five different mechanisms are involved in the beneficial effects of acupuncture on ischaemic stroke rehabilitation ...

Acupuncture is associated with a significant reduction in sleep disturbances in menopausal women, conclude the authors of a systematic review from Taiwan ...

A Taiwanese study randomly assigned 146 chronic lower back pain patients to receive either standard physical therapy or fifteen-minute acupressure treatments (six treatments over four weeks for both groups). At the end of the  study, the average pain scores had decreased from 9.29 (baseline) to 2.28 in the acupressure group and from 7.68 to 5.13 in the physical therapy group. Interestingly th ...

Four new studies demonstarte the power of acupuncture in helping cancer-related pain, hot flus=hes and other symptoms ...

A review from Taiwan gives an overview of the mechanisms by which acupuncture's analgesic effects are mediated. The authors outline the various mechanisms that appear to be involved in acupuncture analgesia (AA), from early studies investigating the relationship between acupuncture and endogenous opiates, to the role of the serotoninergic descending inhibitory pathway. They go on to discuss result ...