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A Taiwanese study supports cupping therapy (CT) as an effective treatment for chronic neck and shoulder pain (NSP) ...

Taiwanese authors have compared the advantages and limitations associated with different control group designs in acupuncture RCTs.

Adding electro-acupuncture to physiotherapy can result in faster pain relief for patients with frozen shoulder syndrome ...

Both superficial and traditional acupuncture show immediate effects on reducing pain caused by trigger points in the upper trapezius muscle, report Taiwanese researchers ...

Consumption of ephedra (Ma Huang, Ephedrae Herba) extract has both acute and chronic effects on autonomic nervous activity. Twenty healthy Taiwanese subjects were given 1g of ephedra dry extract or placebo once per day for 14 days in a crossover fashion with a seven-day washout period between treatments. Analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) showed that ingestion of ephedra caused the sympathov ...

A prospective, randomised, controlled trial has compared auricular acupuncture for smoking cessation against sham in a group of 131 Taiwanese adults. The treatment group received auricular acupuncture at Shenmen, Sympathetic, Mouth and Lung points for eight weeks. The control group received sham acupuncture at non-smoking-cessation-related auricular points (Knee, Elbow, Shoulder and Eye). The subj ...

Individualised acupuncture treatment can relieve the symptoms of functional dyspepsia, according to investigators from Korea ...

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A response to a study debunking acupuncture for back pain ... 

Edzard Ernst's latest paper on acupuncture continues his endeavours to demonstrate that acupuncture is both more harmful and less effective than is claimed.