Harvard scientists claim acupuncture quiets inflammation 'storm' seen in sepsis and COVID-19 patients during tests on mice, ...

Dry needling and acupuncture both involve puncturing the skin with thin needles for therapeutic purposes. While their shared aim is often pain relief, acupuncture currently has more support in ...

Safety concerns remain a significant barrier to appropriate referral from oncology teams, to use by acupuncturists and to ...

Electro-acupuncture may help manage obesity by reducing osteoprotegerin, a protein tied to fat cell growth. This TCM approach ...

Groundbreaking research has transformed our understanding of acupuncture's role in treating sciatica, a debilitating ...

Women are looking into acupuncture to try to treat their menstrual and hormonal issues. Two traditional Chinese medicine practitioners explain how the practice can be incorporated into your wellness ...

The first received 10 standardized acupuncture treatment sessions for sciatica over the course of four weeks. The second received a "sham" treatment, in which practitioners placed the needles at ...

A recent randomized controlled trial has shed light on the efficacy of acupuncture as a treatment for refractory irritable ...

The practice involves the shallow insertion of thin needles into the skin at key points in the human body. Acupuncture may help relieve pain in sciatica by stimulating the release of “chemical ...

Sham Acupuncture for Chronic Sciatica From Herniated Disk, JAMA Internal Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.5463 Jerard Z. Kneifati-Hayek et al, Moving the Needle on Acupuncture ...

As with acupuncturists, gong bath facilitators also consider the possibility that disease may be caused by stagnant energy in the body – the ubiquitous Ch’i, pent up again. By working with sound, so ...

In a drug treatment centre in a wooden stilt house deep in the Thai jungle, young refugees from Myanmar wait patiently for ...