The National Cancer Institute's conference on acupuncture for symptom management in oncology: state of the science, evidence, and research gaps

FZ Zia, O Olaku, T Bao, A Berger, G Deng… - Journal of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, Office of Cancer Complementary
and Alternative Medicine, at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) held a symposium on …

Perioperative acupuncture medicine: a novel concept instead of acupuncture anesthesia

W Yuan, Q Wang - Chinese medical journal, 2019 - mednexus.org
Objective: To confirm that acupuncture applied to patients would improve the clinical
curative effect and accelerate the patient's recovery by introducing the application of …

Acupuncture points can be identified as cutaneous neurogenic inflammatory spots

DH Kim, Y Ryu, DH Hahm, BY Sohn, I Shim… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Acupuncture, a traditional medical procedure practised for over 2000 years in Asia,
stimulates specific but poorly defined sites called acupoints. To date, no unique anatomical …

Electroacupuncture therapy in inflammation regulation: current perspectives

JY Park, UK Namgung - Journal of Inflammation Research, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Although acupuncture therapy is increasingly used to treat diverse symptoms and disorders
in humans, its underlying mechanism is not known well. Only recently have experimental …

What is the point? The problem with acupuncture research that no one wants to talk about

HM Langevin, PM Wayne - The Journal of Alternative and …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Despite having made substantial progress in academic rigor over the past decades,
acupuncture research has been the focus of long-standing and persistent attacks by …

The role of substance P in acupuncture signal transduction and effects

Y Fan, DH Kim, YS Gwak, D Ahn, Y Ryu… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Acupuncture has been used to treat a wide variety of diseases, disorders, and
conditions for more than 2500 years. While the anatomical structures of acupuncture points …

[HTML][HTML] Acupuncture lowers blood pressure in mild hypertension patients: a randomized, controlled, assessor-blinded pilot trial

Y Liu, JE Park, KM Shin, M Lee, HJ Jung… - … Therapies in Medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Objectives To preliminarily assess the effects of acupuncture on prehypertension and stage I
hypertension, and to provide data for further research. Design A randomized, controlled …

The mechanism of acupuncture in treating essential hypertension: a narrative review

J Li, M Sun, J Ye, Y Li, R Jin, H Zheng… - International journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Essential hypertension has a high incidence worldwide, and patients with essential
hypertension endure a lifetime of medication, leading to a heavy economic burden on the …

Effect of acupuncture on the motor and nonmotor symptoms in Parkinson's disease—a review of clinical studies

BY Zeng, K Zhao - CNS neuroscience & therapeutics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder. Parkinson's clinical feature is
characterized by its motor manifestations, although its many nonmotor symptoms occur …

Restoring the autonomic balance in an atrial fibrillation rat model by electroacupuncture at the neiguan point

Y Su, J Huang, S Sun, T He, T Wang, M Fan… - … : Technology at the …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objectives Autonomic nervous activity imbalance plays an important role in atrial fibrillation
(AF). AF can be treated by acupuncture at the Neiguan point (PC6), but the mechanism …