Purpose: The aim of this study is to retrospectively evaluate the effects body (abdominal) and auricular acupuncture combination therapy on anthropometric measurements blood parameters in obesity control.
 Materials Methods: This a descriptive, cross-sectional retrospective study. was carried out by scanning patient files patients who applied center between 01.05.2019 15.02.2020 wanted hav...

As we were interested in the use of bispectral index (BIS) monitoring during the application of acupuncture, we conducted a PubMed search on 31 July 2012 using the keywords ‘acupuncture’ and ‘bispectral index’. This yielded 23 articles reporting the use of BIS during evaluation of the effects of acupuncture. Except for the paper by Zheng et al recently published in this journal, none of these a...

Objectives The gold standard in testing scientific theory requires multiple independent prospective tests. This standard is applied to basic acupuncture research. This article reviews the key results of basic acupuncture research which meet the gold standards and discusses their implications. Method Literature search and review of publications in medline and Chinese medical literature databases...