Imagine that you have 6 people at a party. We assume that, for every pair of them, either THEY KNOW EACH OTHER or NEITHER OF THEM KNOWS THE OTHER. So we are assuming that if x knows y, then y knows x. Claim: Either there are at least 3 people all of whom know one another, or there are at least 3 people no two of whom know each other (or both). Proof of Claim: Let the people be p1, p2, p3, p4, p...

Acupressure is an alternative medicine methodology that originated in ancient China. Treatment effects are achieved by stimulating acupuncture points using acute pressure. Acute pressure block of the sciatic nerve is a newly reported analgesic method based on a current neuroscience concept: stimulation of the peripheral nerves increases the pain threshold. Both methods use pressure as an interv...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To critically examine the evidence for acupuncture and acupressure in the management of cancer-related fatigue (CRF) in adult patients with cancer. DATA SOURCES 18 databases were searched for randomized, controlled trials published in English and Chinese through April 2014. DATA SYNTHESIS Given the heterogeneity of data, meta-analysis was not conducted. A six-step themati...

OBJECTIVE To explore whether auricular acupressure could improve the absorption of flavanones in the extracts from Citrus aurantium L. in the human body. METHODS Ten (10) healthy male volunteers were randomly divided into two groups. Group A was treated with the combination of oral administration of C. aurantium L. extracts and auricular acupressure. Group B was treated only with the oral adm...

BACKGROUND Anxiety has negative effects on mental and physical performance, quality of life, duration of hospitalization, and even on the treatment of patients with cancer. OBJECTIVES Today acupressure is widely used to treat anxiety. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate the effects of acupressure on anxiety in patients with cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS A double-blind randomized cli...

BACKGROUND Dysmenorrhea constitutes one of the most frequent disorders in women of a fertile age. The objective of this research was to determine the effects of acupressure at Sanyinjiao (SP6) point and DiJi (SP8) point on pain severity of primary dysmenorrhea and the associated systemic symptoms. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this crossover clinical trial, 50 females aged 18-30 years old who met ...

background: auto-acupressure is an effective pain treatment method in various conditions. the aim of this study was determining of auto-acupressure efficacy in patients with migraine. methods: 48 voluntary subjects were selected using convenience sampling method and randomized into two, auto-acupressure (25 patients) and control (23 patients), groups.  intervention for the treatment group inclu...

The P6 protein of Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) is responsible for the formation of inclusion bodies (IBs), which are the sites for viral gene expression, replication, and virion assembly. Moreover, recent evidence indicates that ectopically expressed P6 inclusion-like bodies (I-LBs) move in association with actin microfilaments. Because CaMV virions accumulate preferentially in P6 IBs, we hy...