OBJECTIVE To investigate whether acupuncture is effective for the induction of labour in post-term pregnancies. DESIGN A double-blind multicentre randomised controlled study. SETTINGS Aarhus University Hospital and Herning Regional Hospital, Denmark. POPULATION One hundred and twenty-five healthy women with uneventful pregnancies at gestational week 41(+6) were randomised into two groups....

Background/aim: This study aimed to study the effect of pretreatment transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation (TEAS) in preventing propofol injection-related pain. Materials and methods: A total of 360 patients who were to undergo elective hysteroscopy surgery were randomly divided into the following three groups of 120 patients each: control (Group C), sham TEAS (Group F), and TEAS (Grou...

Phonotactic orientation of female crickets is tuned to the temporal pattern of the male calling song. We analyzed the phonotactic selectivity of female crickets to varying temporal features of calling song patterns and compared it with the auditory response properties of the ascending interneuron AN1 (herein referred to as TH1-AC1) and four newly identified local brain neurons. The neurites of ...

Acupoints on the Large Intestine Meridian and specific acupoints related with large intestine have been empirically used to treat large intestinal disease. However, the relationship between acupoints related with large intestine and their functions has not been investigated fully. We investigated whether large intestine-related acupoints affect colonic motility in conscious dogs implanted with ...

Dear editor Postoperative shivering still occurs as a complication of general anaesthesia. 2 Shivering depends on age, sex, duration of anaesthesia and type of anaesthetic agent(s). Primarily due to anaesthetic agents such as isoflurane, this type of shivering presents as spontaneous muscular activity in patients with normal body temperature after general anaesthesia for specific operations. 5 ...

INTRODUCTION the multicentre, pragmatic, randomised controlled Acuflash study evaluated the effect of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) acupuncture on postmenopausal vasomotor symptoms and health-related quality of life. It concluded that use of acupuncture in addition to self-care can contribute to a clinically relevant reduction of hot flushes and increased health-related quality of life. Th...

Acupuncture is a common and effective therapeutic method to treat facial nerve palsy (FNP). However, its underlying mechanism remains unclear. This study was aimed to investigate the effects of electroacupuncture on symptoms and content of HSV-1 DNA in FNP mice. Mice were randomized into four groups, an electroacupuncture treatment group, saline group, model animal group, and blank control grou...