Moxibustion

Moxibustion benefits IBS for up to 12 weeks

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Ethnopharmacological relevance: Moxibustion therapy is one of the traditional Chinese medicine external treatment methods, which involves crushing dried herb Artemisia argyi H. Lév. & Vanio and rolling it into a long cigarette-like strip, igniting it and using its warmth to stimulate specific acupuncture points for a certain period of time. It …

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Moxibustion is effective for diarrhoea type IBS

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Purpose: Diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome is a common functional gastrointestinal disorder that imposes heavy burden on individuals and society. Asan external therapy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), moxibustion is usually used to treat diarrhoea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome. This study aimed to explore the efficacy of moxibustion in treating patients with diarrhoea-predominant …

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Moxibustion improves allergic rhinitis

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Objective: To synthesize the results of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and evaluate the effectiveness and safety of indirect moxibustion for the treatment of allergic rhinitis. Methods: PubMed, the Cochrane Library, Embase, Web of Science, CNKI, WanFang, VIP, and CBM from the establishment to May 22, 2020 were searched. This was a PRISMA …

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Moxibustion improves Crohn’s disease

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Background and aims: Intestinal fibrosis is one of the severe and common complications of Crohn’s disease, but the etiology and pathogenesis remain uncertain. The study intended to examine whether the effect of herb-partitioned moxibustion on rats with Crohn’s disease-associated intestinal fibrosis is associated with the RhoA/ROCK1/MLC pathway. Methods: All experimental rats were …

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Moxibustion delays aging

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As one of the important treatments of health care and anti-aging in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), moxibustion has been proved to have the effects of scavenging free radicals, anti-oxidation, reducing inflammatory reaction, regulating immunity and so on. Recent studies have shown that intestinal microbiota affect the process of aging. The …

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Moxibustion improves cognitive function

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Purpose: Mild cognitive impairment is a general neurodegenerative disease. Moxibustion has been shown to have remarkable effect on cognitive improvement, however, less is known about the effect of moxibustion on mild cognitive impairment and its underlying neural mechanism. This study aimed to investigate the ameliorative brain network in mild cognitive impairment …

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Moxibustion relieves chronic fatigue syndrome

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Objective: This review aimed at systematically evaluating the efficacy and safety of moxibustion for chronic fatigue syndrome. Methods: Relevant trials were searched in seven digital databases up to January 2021. After literature screening, data extraction, and literature quality evaluation, the included studies were meta-analyzed using RevMan 5.4 software. The evidence level was …

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Acupuncture and moxibustion beat western medicine for allergic rhinitis

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Objective: To review the therapeutic effect of acupuncture and moxibustion on allergic rhinitis based on the network Meta-analysis. Methods: The randomized controlled trials of acupuncture and moxibustion for allergic rhinitis were retrieved from the databases, starting from the date of establishment to August 17, 2020, i.e. the PubMed, EMbase, Cochrane Library, CNKI, …

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Why smokeless moxa is better than traditional moxa

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Objective: To observe the effect of long-term inhalation of moxa-smoke on olfactory epithelial cells in rats, in order to explore the safety of moxa-smoke inhalation. Methods: A total of 32 SD rats (half male and half female) were randomly divided into 4 groups: normal, low concentration (LCMSI), medium concentration (MCMSI) and high …

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Acupuncture and moxibustion are effective in the treatment of ulcerative colitis

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Acupuncture and moxibustion have definite clinical effects on treating ulcerative colitis, but their mechanism is still unclear. To investigate the molecular mechanisms, we applied herb-partitioned moxibustion or electroacupuncture at the Tianshu (ST25) points on UC rats and used RNA sequencing to identify molecular consequences. Male Sprague Dawley (SD) rats were …

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