Objectives: To analyze the rules of acupoint selection and compatibility of acupuncture and moxibustion in treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) based on complex network technology and provide the reliable evidences for acupoint selection in treatment of this disease with acupuncture and moxibustion. Methods: The clinical studies on acupuncture-moxibustion treatment of inflammatory …
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Objectives: To compare the clinical effect between two acupoint regimens of moxibustion on knee osteoarthritis (KOA), and observe the influences on the serum content of interleukin 1α (IL-1α), interleukin-17A (IL-17A), tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α), bone gla protein (BGP) and osteoprotegerin (OPG). Methods: KOA patients were randomly divided into an observation group …
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Objectives: To explore the rules of acupoint selection in the treatment of neurogenic bladder (NB) with acupuncture and moxibustion by using data mining. Methods: The clinical research literatures on acupuncture treatment of NB were collected from PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, CNKI, Wanfang Database, VIP Database and China Biology Medicine from retrieved to …
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Objectives: The therapeutic effect of acupuncture treatment on chronic kidney disease was assessed, and the characteristics of acupoint selection in different chronic kidney disease types were summarised. Methods: A total of 100 patients with chronic kidney disease were enrolled in this retrospective cohort study, of whom 50 received acupuncture treatment for 12 …
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Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture on ulcerative colitis and explore the influence of electroacupuncture parameters and acupoint compatibility to optimise the clinical treatment plan. Methods: After searching eight databases, data were extracted and analyzed to determine the quality and bias of the study’s methodological design, and randomized controlled …
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Background: This review aims to systematically summarize and analyze recent high-quality animal research results about the use of acupuncture in Alzheimer’s disease patients. This information will be useful in providing a reference for future experimental research and an experimental basis for the clinical use of acupuncture in the treatment of Alzheimer’s …
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Using data mining technology, the rules of acupoint selection of acupuncture and moxibustion were explored in treatment of stroke-related pneumonia. The clinical articles of acupuncture and moxibustion in treatment of stroke-related pneumonia were retrieved from CNKI, SinoMed, Wanfang and VIP databases from their inception through to January l 2021, and …
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Objective: To analyze the acupoint selection rules of acupuncture for pseudobulbar palsy dysphagia using data mining technology. Methods: The literature of acupuncture for pseudobulbar palsy dysphagia published from January 1, 1990 to May 1, 2021 was retrieved from CNKI, SinoMed, Wanfang, VIP, and PubMed databases. Acupuncture prescription database was established. The frequency …
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Data mining technology was adopted to analyze the rules of acupoint selection in treatment of erectile dysfunction with acupuncture and moxibustion. All of the articles for acupuncture and moxibustion in treatment of erectile dysfunction were searched from the databases, i.e. Chinese national knowledge infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang database, VIP, Chinese biomedical …
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Objective: To analyze the regularities of combination of acupoints in the existing clinical trial literature by using complex network technique, so as to provide reliable evidence for selecting appropriate acupoint recipes in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis with acupuncture and moxibustion therapies. Methods: Clinical papers about acupuncture treatment of knee osteoarthritis published …
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