Recently added articles from The Journal of Chinese Medicine:
The treatment of male subfertility with acupuncture.
Oct 01, 2008; Deadman, Peter ... Abstract Male subfertility may be a factor in at least half of all couple infertility, yet apart from assisted reproduction technology (ART), biomedical treatment options are limited. There is growing evidence that acupuncture can improve sperm parameters and may therefore play ...
Multi-bed acupuncture clinics: a new model of practice.
Oct 01, 2008; Stone, Charlotte ... Abstract Multi-bed acupuncture clinics--a recent and successful phenomenon in the UK--utilise a new business model for the provision of more affordable acupuncture treatments. Patients benefit from reduced cost of treatment in ex-change for some loss of privacy, and they ...
Addiction and Chinese medicine.
Oct 01, 2008; Yongping, Jiang ... Abstract This article explains addiction from a Chinese medicine perspective, including the properties and pathologies of addictive substances, the basic patterns of addiction, treatment principles and examples of both herbal and acupuncture treatment methods. The author ...
Heavenly moxibustion and medicinal application moxibustion.
Oct 01, 2008; Wilcox, Lorraine ... Abstract Heavenly moxibustion and medicinal application moxibustion are little known in the west. They involve applying warm or hot medicinal substances to acumoxa points. The history, materials and methods of application are described along with treatments for a number of ...
Applied Channel Theory in Chinese Medicine--Wang Ju-Yi's Lectures on Channel Therapeutics.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2008; Kennedy, Tom ... APPLIED CHANNEL THEORY IN CHINESE MEDICINE--WANG JU-YI'S LECTURES ON CHANNEL THERAPEUTICS by Wang Ju-Yi & Jason D. Robertson, Eastland Press, hardback, 718 pages, 53.50 [pounds sterling] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Channel theory is described by Dr ....
Integrating Conventional and Chinese Medicine in Cancer Care.
Oct 01, 2008; Buck, Charles ... INTEGRATING CONVENTIONAL AND CHINESE MEDICINE IN CANCER CARE by Tai Lahans Churchill-Livingstone, softback, 395 pages, 34.99 [pounds sterling] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I felt a sense of familiarity reading the introduction to this book, realising ...
Moxibustion: The Power of Mugwort Fire.
Oct 01, 2008; Deadman, Peter ... MOXIBUSTION: THE POWER OF MUGWORT FIRE by Lorraine Wilcox Blue Poppy Press, softback, 279 pages, $34.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lorraine Wilcox is both a scholar of classical Chinese medical texts, and a practitioner of acupuncture, and this ...
Chinese herbal patent medicines for irritable bowel syndrome.
Oct 01, 2008; Wang, Mei ... Abstract Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is commonly encountered in the clinic. The use of Chinese herbal patent medicines, prescribed according to pattern differentiation, is discussed in this article. Keywords: IBS, Chinese herbal patent medicine. ...
Zhang Cong-zheng and the attack and drain school.
Oct 01, 2008; Buck, Charles ... Abstract This paper appraises the work of the Jin-Yuan dynasty master Zhang Cong-zheng, founder of the Attack and Drain School (Gong Xie Pai). It discusses his revival and refinement of the three methods of pathogen removal as described in the Su Wen and developed in the Shang ...
The treatment of recurrent implantation failure in assisted reproductive technology.
Oct 01, 2008; Carman, Naava ... Abstract Recurrent implantation failure (RIF) is the repeated failure of an embryo to implant in the uterus of an otherwise healthy woman of childbearing age. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has much to offer women undergoing assisted reproductive technology (ART), both in ...
Acupuncture improves shoulder pain care.(News)
Oct 01, 2008; Sherman, Lisa ... A multicentre randomised controlled trial conducted in Spain has found that single-point acupuncture in association with physiotherapy improves shoulder function and alleviates pain better than physiotherapy alone. 425 patients with a clinical diagnosis of unilateral subacromial syndrome ...
Acupuncture improves headache treatment.(News)
Oct 01, 2008; Sherman, Lisa ... A large German study has compared the effectiveness of acupuncture in addition to routine care in patients with primary headache, to routine care alone. In a randomised controlled trial plus non-randomised cohort study, patients with headache were allocated to receive up to 15 acupuncture ...
Acupuncture for insomnia.(News)
Oct 01, 2008; Sherman, Lisa ... A randomised single-blind trial has examined the efficacy of abdominal acupuncture as a treatment for insomnia. In the Chinese study, 44 women (aged 22 to 56) were randomly assigned to receive acupuncture or medication. The acupuncture group received abdominal acupuncture once a day for ...
Acupuncture for prostate cancer hot flushes.(News)
Oct 01, 2008; Sherman, Lisa ... Both electroacupuncture (EA) and traditional acupuncture (TA) can reduce the impact of hot flushes on men who have had castrational treatment for prostate cancer. Swedish researchers randomised 31 men with hot flushes due to prostate cancer treatment to EA (12 points, with four ...
Electroacupuncture reduces breast cancer hot flushes.(News)
Oct 01, 2008; Sherman, Lisa ... Swedish researchers have compared the effects of electro-acupuncture (EA) and hormone therapy (HT) on vasomotor symptoms in women with a history of breast cancer. Forty-five women were randomised to EA for 12 weeks or HT for 24 months. The frequency of, and distress caused by, hot flushes ...
Acupuncture better than usual care for menopausal hot flushes.(News)
Oct 01, 2008; Sherman, Lisa ... A pilot study on the effect of acupuncture in decreasing hot flushes in menopausal women has concluded either that there is a strong placebo effect or that both traditional and sham acupuncture significantly reduce hot flush frequency. Fifty-six postmenopausal women (aged 44 to 55) were ...
Acupuncture improves symptoms of knee osteoarthritis.(News)
Oct 01, 2008; Sherman, Lisa ... A blinded randomised trial of acupuncture has compared the effect of acupuncture with that of a non-penetrating sham in patients with osteoarthritic knee pain. Sixty-eight acupuncture naive patients with symptomatic and radiological evidence of osteoarthritis of the knee were randomly ...
Acupuncture effective for knee osteoarthritis.(News)
Oct 01, 2008; Sherman, Lisa ... A review, carried out by American researchers, of ten randomised, controlled trials (1456 participants) of acupuncture for osteoarthritis of the knee has concluded that it is an effective treatment ...
Acupuncture for painkiller-resistant period pain.(News)
Oct 01, 2008; Sherman, Lisa ... Italian scientists have evaluated the effect of acupuncture on dysmenorrhoea that is resistant to treatment by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Fifteen patients received eight weekly acupuncture treatments (at Taixi KID-3, Taichong LIV-3, Gongsun SP-4, Zusanli ST-36, Tianshu ...
Low frequency electroacupuncture better for stroke recovery.(News)
Oct 01, 2008; Sherman, Lisa ... A Korean study suggests that low frequency electroacupuncture (EA) may be more helpful for motor recovery after stroke than high frequency EA. Sixty-two patients with motor dysfunction, hospitalised one week to one month from onset of ischaemic stroke, were treated with 2Hz or 120Hz EA ...
