Background. Little is known which factors influence the blinding in acupuncture studies. Aim. To investigate if blinding varied between patients with different characteristics receiving verum or sham acupuncture. Methods. We randomised cancer patients to verum (n = 109) or sham acupuncture (n = 106) with a nonpenetrating telescopic sham needle for nausea. Level of blinding was compared between ...

Background and objectives: Food poisoning has been always a major concern in health system of every community and cream-filled products are one of the most widespread food poisoning causes in humans. In present study, we examined the preservative effect of the cinnamon oil in cream-filled cakes. Methods: Antimicrobial activity of Cinnamomum verum J. Presl (Cinnamon) bark essential oil was exami...

Bread is a staple food for billions of households around the world; yet, some its nutritional value reduced during manufacturing process. With this in mind, work was carried out with objective improving and functional properties white bread by using cinnamon breadmaking order to contribute prevention certain diseases related eating habits. Therefore, bread-making trials incorporating 0%, 0.5%, ...

This paper studies the occurrence of verum accent in declaratives and polar interrogatives. Verum exhibits two kinds interpretational effect: (i) it requires an epistemic conflict across sentence types (ii) may also convey a negative speaker bias We argue that former effect is due to presuppositional VERUM operator latter arises from possibility said carrying polarity focus. Our proposal implie...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess the effectiveness and safety of percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (PENS) in migraine treatment. METHODS Sixty-two patients with at least 2 migration attacks each month were recruited and randomly divided into a verum PENS group and a sham PENS group in a ratio of 1:1. All patients received verum or sham PENS 30 minutes daily, 5 times weekly for 12...

Background: Antihypertensive plants are one of the means of hypertension control. Objective: To examine the clinical antihypertensive efficacy and safety of the plants found in Iran. Methods: PUBMED, MEDLINE, SCOPUS, EMBASE, SCIENCEDIRECT, PROQUEST, OVID, EBSCO, GOOGLE, and GOOGLE SCHOLAR were searched. The PRISMA guideline was observed. The search terms were Iran, Iranian, plant, herb, antihyp...