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Acupuncture May Be Able to Reduce Stress

A study published in the December online issue of the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine indicates that acupuncture may indeed be effective in reducing concentrations of a chemical linked to stress in the brain. The work, carried out on lab rats, may be applicable to humans as well. The protein-like substanc...

23 December 2011
03:00 GMT

Study Looks at the Effects of Acupuncture on Undiagnosed Illnesses

Official statistics from the United Kingdom indicate that at least 20 percent of all patients have symptoms that cannot be identified or explained using Western medicine. For this group, acupuncture might be the best option, a new scientific study indicates.Unexplained symptoms are a very widespread phenomenon, and t...

31 May 2011
10:11 GMT

Acupuncture Solves Lazy Eye

Acupuncture can help some older children with lazy eye, for whom visual correction alone does not work, concluded a team of Chinese researchers.Amblyopia, or lazy eye, is the loss of one eye's ability to see details, and it is the most common cause of vision problems in children, and also believed to affect betw...

14 December 2010
04:31 GMT

Acupuncture Helps Relieve Pain

An international team of researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging to discover the effects of acupuncture on the brain's perception and processing of the pain, and they concluded that acupuncture is effective in relieving pain.Thanks to the fMRI, they obtained pictures of the brain, while patients e...

30 November 2010
09:05 GMT

Morning Sickness Won't Go Away

Many say it is a blessing being pregnant, that women glow and they become more beautiful than usual, but nobody gives them an efficient remedy for morning sickness... mainly because there still isn't one.Cochrane researchers analyzed every known treatment for morning sickness and concluded that currently there i...

8 September 2010
03:39 GMT

New Details on How Acupuncture Affects the Body

The ancient craft of acupuncture has been with the Chinese people for thousands of years, and it has been used successfully to treat people ever since. The practice was not easily adopted in the West, mostly due to its spiritual component, and to the fact that it brings into focus details of the human body that canno...

31 May 2010
04:05 GMT

Acupuncture Cannot Treat Hot Flushes

According to a joint scientific study by groups from Daejon and Busan, in South Korea, and Exeter, in the United Kingdom, acupuncture does not seem to work in alleviating “hot flushes,” also known as “night sweats,” a series of symptoms that occurs in women when they reach menopause, on accoun...

7 April 2009
10:31 GMT

Air Force Combat Docs Learn Acupuncture

The American Air Force is currently instructing its own physicians into the ancient art of acupuncture, the traditional Chinese method of treatment, estimated to be more than 5,000 years old. Although no one can say for sure how this technique works while still remaining faithful to the Western way of thinking, no on...

30 January 2009
08:47 GMT

38 Percent of Americans Use Alternative Medicine

A recent study carried by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that more than 38 percent of all US health care system patients underwent or are still actively following a complimentary or alternative treatment, to the standard one, as prescribed by ...

11 December 2008
09:51 GMT

Acupuncture Treats Headaches Better Than Aspirin

New scientific research, conducted in the United States, revealed that in 4,000 cases of people suffering from chronic headaches, migraines, and other similar conditions, acupuncture actually worked better than an aspirin in alleviating pain. The team of researchers, based at Duke University, analyzed the effects of ...

2 December 2008
05:27 GMT

Acupuncture, Breast Health and Medication

The Chinese people has been successfully employing acupuncture for over 4 millenia. Now, the western world has also started to discover its benefits. Acupuncture seems to be the best way of relieving hot flushes present in breast cancer patients treated with the anti-estrogen tamoxifen following operation, as reveale...

22 April 2008
14:06 GMT

Acupuncture: 4 Millennia of Chinese Efficiency

If you want to avoid traditional medicine and the inherent mounds of drugs, this is an alternative. Acupuncture refers to a group of techniques, employing very thin, small needles introduced in some precise body parts for achieving a therapeutic answer. Its efficiency seems to be given by the fact that it causes the ...

3 April 2008
09:53 GMT

Acupuncture Boosts Woman's Fertility

The principles of acupuncture are based on the release of neurotransmitters, like endorphins, that ease pain and threat inflammations. 104 conditions are known to be treated by acupuncture, including post-surgery pains, muscular pains, menstrual cramps, nausea and vomits caused by chemotherapy or pregnancy. Now, acu...

8 February 2008
14:06 GMT

Forget About Regular Scrolling! Meet the Massage Mouse!

As long as there is no Hello Kitty involved, animal-shaped electronics are always a nice addition to your gadget kit.This rather silly Massage Mouse is nothing super complicated. It gets powered by 9V battery and can double as a relaxing massage instrument. All the devices from its series were developed by the Chines...

15 January 2008
03:30 GMT


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