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16/03/2025

Acupuncture Low Back Pain Relief Findings Confirmed

Acupuncture is a an effective medical intervention for patients suffering from lower back pain, according to researchers from Harvard Medical School (Boston), Georgetown University (Washington, DC), University of Arizona College of Medicine (Phoenix), and other medical institutions. The findings are based on an evidence-based systematic meta-analysis of numerous clinical trials. The research team adds that their determination is consistent with CDC Guidelines and the American College of Physicians (ACP), which conclude that acupuncture is a “first-line” medical procedure for the treatment of low back pain

https://www.healthcmi.com/Acupuncture-Continuing-Education-News/2088-acupuncture-low-back-pain-relief-findings-confirmed

18/01/2025

Chinese Herbal Medicine Fights Bladder Cancer

A new discovery finds that herbs commonly used by licensed acupuncturists have important anti-cancer abilities. New research concludes that the Chinese Medicine herbal formula Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan powerfully and selectively kills cancer cells while exhibiting minimal toxicity to normal cells. Researchers discovered that the herbal formula potently inhibits the proliferation of bladder cancer cells when administered directly into the bladder. They also found that Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan selectively kills cancer cells while leaving normal bladder cells unharmed and that the herbal formula prevents the proliferation of cancer cells by blocking cell cycle replication, a process by which cells divide and then duplicate.

https://www.healthcmi.com/Acupuncture-Continuing-Education-News/726-herbbladder

29/02/2024

This is a quote from a study published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine (Linked below) in 2016.

"Our study demonstrated that in patients with acute pain syndromes presenting to the ED, acupuncture is at least as efficacious and has a better safety profile than IV morphine. The results of this study suggest that acupuncture has a potential role in controlling acute pain conditions presenting to EDs and appears to be safe and effective. Future studies should be performed in international populations."

Source :https://www.house.mn.gov/comm/docs/v-laFMKD2E2c0vgiDlJ8Jg.pdf

17/12/2023

Acupuncture Alleviates Fatigue In Dialysis Patients

Acupuncture relieves fatigue more effectively than conventional rest and relaxation methods for dialysis patients. Researchers from Central Hospital of Laifeng District compared conventional relaxation methods (e.g., napping, eating, chatting, listening to music, watching television) with acupuncture. The Revised Piper Fatigue Scale (RPFS) was used to measure fatigue levels and was chosen based on the quality of its psychometric properties. RPFS is a multidimensional instrument that covers fatigue domains in twenty-two items over four subscales.

Acupuncture helps kidney dialysis patients by relieving fatigue and other symptoms.

17/12/2023

Acupuncture For Diabetes Confirmed

Acupuncture aids weight loss and reduces blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes patients. Sanming County Hospital of Integrated Medicine researchers (Fujian) conducted a clinical trial of obese patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. They conclude that acupuncture treatment in addition to routine care is more effective in promoting healthy weight loss and improved blood chemistry than routine care monotherapy.

Blood sugar improvements and weight loss benefits are successful with acupuncture.

21/10/2023

Acupuncture Relieves Dizziness and Vertigo

Acupuncture is safe and effective for the treatment of dizziness and vertigo for emergency room patients. Subjective and objective measures document significant positive patient outcomes in a recent investigation. HRV (heart rate variability), Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), and the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) of dizziness and vertigo show that acupuncture has an immediate and significant therapeutic effect.

Acupuncture relives both dizziness and vertigo for patients in the emergency room.

21/10/2023

Acupuncture Lowers Hypertension Finding

Newly published research confirms that acupuncture reduces hypertension, high blood pressure. Real acupuncture was found more effective than both a non-acupuncture control and a sham acupuncture control in this new laboratory experiment. As a result of this controlled experiment, the researchers concluded that acupuncture has a “stable antihypertensive effect.”

Acupuncture has been shown to reduce high blood pressure in this new lab experiment.

14/10/2023

Acupuncture Diabetes Treatment Found Effective

Acupuncture point stimulation is effective for the treatment of diabetes. In a laboratory investigation, laser acupuncture outperformed rosiglitazone for the inhibition of β-cell apoptosis. In an independent clinical investigation, true TENS acupuncture point stimulation outperformed sham acupuncture point stimulation for regulating glucose levels and improving insulin resistance.

A controlled laboratory investigation conducted by researchers at the Henan University of Science and Technology found that acupuncture outperformed the drug rosiglitazone for inhibiting β-cell apoptosis in type 2 diabetic rats.

Acupuncture point stimulation benefits diabetics, according to modern research.

22/09/2023

Acupuncture Soothes Gallbladder Attacks

Researchers conclude that acupuncture increases the clinical effective rate of the drug cefodizime for the treatment of acute exacerbations of chronic cholecystitis (inflammation of the gallbladder). Xining Haihu Hospital researchers combined acupuncture with standard drug therapy. Patients receiving both drug therapy and acupuncture in a combined treatment protocol had superior patient outcomes compared with patients using only drug therapy. The drug control group achieved a total effective rate of 50.0%. The acupuncture plus drug treatment group achieved a total effective rate of 98.0%. The addition of acupuncture to the administration of cefodizime increases the total effective rate by 48%.

Acupuncture reduces gallbladder inflammation and significantly boosts the effectiveness of antibiotics.