OBJECTIVE To explore the effect of acupuncture at HT7 on heart rate variability (HRV) in healthy volunteers. METHODS 120 subjects were divided into four groups using a random number table. The following groups of acupuncture interventions were used: HT7 verum acupuncture; HT7 non-penetrating sham acupuncture; acupuncture at a sham point; and no acupuncture. HRV was recorded 10 min before, dur...

a b s t r a c t a 36-year-old male patient with posttraumatic cervical cord damage and resultant quadriparesis, demonstrated hypotension and periods of bradycardia. for most of his two-month stay in the intensive care unit (icu), he was dependent on dopamine support to maintain hemodynamic stability. keeping in mind evidence from the literature, that electrostimulation of acupoints neiguan (pc ...

Background: Impairment of motor function and activities daily living is very common in post-stroke patients. Acupuncture has been used stroke for a long time. Although growing evidence supports the beneficial effects acupuncture, there still no clear conclusion on optimal intervention time-point acupuncture stroke. Thus, we tried to assess efficacy safety dissimilar time-points by network meta-...

Acupuncture is performed by inserting special hair-thin needles into the skin at specific sites, known as acupuncture points, for desired therapeutic and preventive purposes. Acupuncture is called “Jin Jiao” in Chinese. It consists with the practice of “acupuncture” and “moxibustion.” Moxibustion, warming sensation of moxa (artemisia vulgaris) over the acupuncture points, can be also used for t...

In the last 5 years, laserneedle acupuncture has become a new category in acupuncture, with its own scientific basics. It combines the tradition of Chinese acupuncture with the possibilities of modern technology. Laserneedle acupuncture is in accordance with the aim of traditional medicine because it uses the most essential and most natural medium of our existence, the light, to heal illnesses....

The 12th Five-Year Plan outline (2011-2015) of the National Economy and Social Development of the People’s Republic of China is referred as 12th Five-Year Plan. This paper analyzed and summarized the approved funded projects on approval of acupuncture and moxibustion science by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC) including the total number of the funding projects, the distr...

Background: There is challenge to find an effective treatment for tinnitus. Few studies were done on the effects of acupuncture on tinnitus. This study evaluated the effect of acupuncture on chronic non-pulsatile tinnitus. Methods: This randomized double-blind clinical trial was conducted from December 2014 to September 2015. Patients suffering from chronic non-pulsatile tinnitus were randomly...

OBJECTIVES To study the analgesic effect of acupuncture and placebo acupuncture and to explore whether the type of the placebo acupuncture is associated with the estimated effect of acupuncture. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis of three armed randomised clinical trials. DATA SOURCES Cochrane Library, Medline, Embase, Biological Abstracts, and PsycLIT. Data extraction and analysis ...

The Sixth World Federation of Acupuncture Moxibustion Societies (WFAS) Academic Conference on Acupuncture was organized at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre in Australia, October 29–31, 2004. WFAS is the official nongovernmental organization advising the World Health Organization (WHO) on acupuncture, and has successfully held five World Academic Conferences on Acupuncture and 11 ...

BACKGROUND Recent evidence shows that acupuncture is effective for chronic pain. However we do not know whether there are characteristics of acupuncture or acupuncturists that are associated with better or worse outcomes. METHODS An existing dataset, developed by the Acupuncture Trialists' Collaboration, included 29 trials of acupuncture for chronic pain with individual data involving 17,922 ...