OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of electroacupuncture in patients with fibromyalgia, a syndrome of unknown origin causing diffuse musculoskeletal pain. DESIGN Three weeks' randomised study with blinded patients and evaluating physician. SETTING University divisions of physical medicine and rehabilitation and rheumatology, Geneva. PATIENTS 70 patients (54 women) referred to the divisio...

Zhuang medicine shallow needling has a long history and plays significant role in Chinese medicine. With the development of medical treatment China, there is constant improvement use needles. Bone needles have been modified to pottery needles, bronze electroacupuncture. From this history, are some improvements terms material technology. By analyzing comparing primitive current acupuncture instr...

Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder in women of reproductive age. Acupuncture can improve menstrual cycle recovery and decrease body mass index (BMI) with PCOS. The effect acupuncture be enhanced by giving letrozol. Researchers are interested knowing comparison between letrozol therapy + electroacupuncture on weight, follicle count, endometrial thi...

Electroacupuncture (EA) can help reduce infarct size and injury resulting from myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R); however, the underlying molecular mechanism remains unknown. We previously reported that STAT5 plays a critical role in cardioprotective effect of remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC). Here, we assessed effects electroacupuncture pretreatment (EAP) on I/R presence and/or absen...

A descending inhibitory mechanism from the periaqueductal gray (PAG) to the spinal cord through the nucleus raphe magnus (NRM) is strongly involved in endogenous analgesic system produced by acupuncture stimulation. In addition to the PAG to NRM system which descends in the medial pathway of the brain stem, the nucleus reticularis lateralis (NRL) situated in the lateral part of the brain stem i...

Gastric dysmotility is one of the major pathophysiological factors in functional gastrointestinal disorders. Acupuncture, as one of the alternative approaches, is efficacious in the treatment of gastrointestinal motility disorders; however, the mechanism underlying its action is unclear. In the present study, we used both capsazepine, a TRPV1 antagonist, and TRPV1 knockout mice. Animals were di...

Chronic constipation, an ancient disease, is prevalent, and costly in the general population. Complementary and alternative therapies are frequently used for constipation. This review introduces various methods of complementary and alternative therapies, including acupuncture, moxibustion, massage, and herbal medicine. Efficacy, safety, influence factors, sham control design, and mechanisms of ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the safety of electroacupuncture plus oxytocin for uterine contraction of puerperants. METHODS 276 puerperants with difficult labor were randomly divided into a medication group, treated with intravenous dripping of oxytocin, and an acupuncture plus medication group, in the medication group, intravenous dripping of oxytocin was given, and in the other group, acupunctu...