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As a common mental disorder, depression is one of the leading causes of disability around the world. Clinical studies have shown that acupuncture is an effective therapy without obvious side effects compared to limited efficacy and adverse reactions of drug therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and neuromodulation technology in treating depression. …

Methods: PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials were systematically searched. Reference lists from the latest systematic reviews (2015 to 2020) on BMS treatment in the PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library databases were also scrutinized. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or clinical controlled …

Pregnant women (n=113) with clinically verified pelvic girdle pain in gestational weeks 12-28, recruited from maternity healthcare centres, randomised (1:1) into two groups. Exclusion criteria: any obstetrical complication, systemic disease or previous disorder that could contradict tests or treatment. Interventions: The intervention consisted of either 10 acupuncture sessions (two sessions per week) …

Sixty students aged 18-25 years were randomly allocated into acupuncture group (AG) (n=30) and control group (CG) (n=30). The AG underwent 20 min of acupuncture/day, while the CG underwent their normal routine for 10 days. Assessments were performed before and after the intervention. Results: Between-group analysis showed a significant increase in …

team of researchers led by neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School has successfully used acupuncture to tame systemic inflammation in mice. In the study, published Aug. 12 in Neuron, acupuncture activated different signaling pathways that triggered either a pro-inflammatory or an anti-inflammatory response in animals with bacterially induced systemic inflammation. Further, the …

Sixty male C57BL/6J mice were randomly divided into 6 groups, namely normal control, sham operation, CRS model, medication, acupuncture plus smokeless moxibustion (Acu+smokeless Moxi) and acupuncture plus smoky moxibustion (Acu+smoky Moxi) groups, with 20 mice in each group. The CRS model was established by inserting a piece of polyporous sponge …

This is a randomized and controlled crossover study. The same individual patient was part of both, experimental (real acupuncture) and control group (false acupuncture/sham), and the sequence was randomized. Balance and gait parameters were measured at two different moments, before and after treatment, using four force platforms as well as …

Patients with PCOS and diabetes who had undergone acupuncture treatment from January 2019 to June 2020 were recruited in this study. The potential miRNA-mRNA network co-expressed in PCOS and diabetes was obtained through bioinformatics analysis. The expression levels of candidate gen es were determined using quantitative qRT-PCR to study the …

Two independent researchers selected articles, extracted the data and assessed study quality. Overall risks and risks for different AE categories were obtained from random effects meta-analyses. Main outcomes: Overall risk of minor AEs and serious adverse events (SAEs) per patients and per treatments. Results: A total of 7679 publications were identified. Twenty-two …

A total of 120 patients with VD after cerebral infarction were randomized into an acupuncture combined with medication group (60 cases, 1 case dropped off) and a western medication group (60 cases, 1 case dropped off). In the western medication group, oxiracetam capsules were given orally, 2 capsules each time, …