A compilation of 35 hospital post-operative patients and 23 clinic patients was recorded as treated by acupuncture in a span of 30 months. Cases presented as post-operative included biliary surgeries, ...

Specific and nonspecific acupoint acupuncture improved symptoms of diarrhea among a small subset of patients with irritable bowel syndrome, according to results from a pilot study reported in JAMA ...

Ear acupuncture can help shed the pounds, indicates a small study, recently published. Ear acupuncture can help shed the pounds, indicates a small study published online in Acupuncture in Medicine.

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Randomized and crossover trial conducted from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2002. The subjects were randomly divided into groups A and B. Group A received electroacupuncture treatment first while ...

Acupuncture is part of traditional Chinese medicine, and versions of it have long been used in many other Asian countries as well. It has been the subject of thousands of studies and hundreds of ...

A study was conducted in Taiwan to evaluate the effect of acupuncture on obesity. The results showed that electro-acupuncture is more effective than sit-up exercises in reducing body weight (BW) and ...

A 64-year-old Korean woman had a four-week history of dull pain in the lower abdomen that was worse on movement; she had no gastrointestinal or urogenital symptoms. The previous year, the patient had ...

Acupuncture generally doesn’t hurt when performed by a licensed acupuncturist. However, though uncommon, some people may report needle site pain or other side effects. Acupuncture stimulates specific ...