BACKGROUND Infantile colic is a common painful clinical condition associated with signs of distended intestines and an increase in colon peristalsis. However, clinical documentation of observed gastrointestinal functions in the condition is still lacking. Even though the ailment is common, no clear treatment guidelines exist. While acupuncture with minimal stimulation has been shown to be effec...

Prolonged labor is a complication that increases maternal and fetal mortality. Hypnopressur therapy being developed to treat pain length of labor. The aim this study was prove hypnopressur more effective in shortening the duration active phase I primigravida design randomized control trial. research subjects were 80 divided into 4 groups: hypnopressure group (HP) n=20, hypnotherapy (HA) acupres...

Seven lithium complexes supported by sterically and electronically diverse phenoxyimine ligands were synthesized characterized X-ray diffraction, NMR spectroscopy elemental microanalysis. These show high activity (kobs ≤7.43×10−2 s−1) for rac-lactide ring-opening polymerization (ROP) in the presence of co-initiator benzyl alcohol (BnOH), with exception Li4 which features an unusual polymeric la...

INTRODUCTION Point injection as a therapeutic technique is well documented, but its physiological effects have not been formally compared with traditional acupuncture. One aim of this study was to compare the effects of the two techniques at one acupuncture point, as a step towards understanding the mode of action of point injection and validating its clinical use. A second aim was to explore w...

Methodological problems of acupuncture trials focus on adequate placebo controls. In this trial we evaluated the use of sham laser acupuncture as a control procedure. Thirty-four healthy volunteers received verum laser (invisible infrared laser emission and red light, 45 s and 1 J per point) and sham laser (red light) treatment at three acupuncture points (LI4, LU7 and LR3) in a randomized, dou...

In children, laser acupuncture is used more often than needle acupuncture in Western countries, due to their aversion to needles. When applying laser acupuncture to premature babies and neonates, firstly the degree of the thermal increase to the skin has to be evaluated so as to guarantee safe application. The patients were premature neonates before their discharge from hospital. The measuremen...

OBJECTIVES To study the analgesic effect of electroacupuncture (EA) as perioperative adjunctive therapy added to a systemic analgesic strategy (including tramadol and ketamine) for postoperative pain, opioid-related side effects and patient satisfaction. METHODS In a sham-controlled participant- and observer-blinded trial, 75 patients undergoing radical prostatectomy were randomly assigned to...