A voice disorder occurs when voice quality, pitch, and loudness differ or are inappropriate for an individual’s age, gender, cultural background, or geographic location (from AHSA). Some reports claim that acupuncture is effective for treating dysphonia associated with benign pathological tissue changes. Given the invasiveness and risk associated with phono-surgery for benign vocal pathologies/Benign Vocal […]
Wangbuliuxing Ear Seed Pressing fundet effektiv til at fremme livmoderinvolution A research team relaesed there latest finding to assess the efficacy and safety of auricular acupressure AA for uterine involution after cesarean section. The study involved 109 women who underwent cesarean section participated in this study. The acupressure protocol included five points including the monaural […]
A research team from Australia and China performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the efficacy of acupuncture in improving objective sleep measures in primary insomnia1. The analysis involved 775 patients from eleven studies. They concluded that acupuncture was significantly associated with improvements in several objective sleep parameters (increases in total sleep time and […]
I never thought of using moxa for the treatment of sarcoma. But after I read this article, I learned some new input! A research team from China investigate the therapeutic effect of moxibustion on sarcomas from mesenchymal tissues, which have a low response rate to chemotherapy and radiotherapy1. Moxibustion therapy was directly applied at the […]
A research team from Kyung Hee University reported their latest findings on anti-itch effects of acupuncture and its possible mechanisms. Acupuncture was performed at LI11 acupoints just before the injection of pruritogens in the mouse cheek model of acute itch and of MC903-induced atopic dermatitis displaying serotonergic chronic itch. Acupuncture significantly reduced acute itch triggered […]
Under a Creative Commons license Song et al compared and ranked the clinical effects of different acupuncture and related therapies on hyperlipidemia patients [1]. They analyzed 3124 patients, involving 12 types of acupuncture and related therapies and comprehensive therapies. The results showed that: for the total cholesterol (TC), acupoint catgut embedding (ACE), simple acupuncture (ACU), acupoint […]
The latest trail released on Nov. 10, 2020, by a research team from China suggested that electro-acupuncture (EA) resulted in less pain and better function at week 8 and these effects persisted through week 26. Intensive manual acupuncture (MA) had no benefit for KOA at week 8, although it showed benefits during follow‐up. Acupuncture therapy […]
A research team from University of Science and Technology, Korea performed a systematic review aimed to verify the efficacy and underlying mechanism of moxibustion in treating cognitive impairment(Aum et al. 2020). Sixteen trials involving 324 animals were obtained from various database including MEDLINE (PubMed), Cochrane, etc. They extracted the results of behavioral tests and immunohistochemical […]
