Using fMRI, Chinese researchers have shown that the organisation of functional brain networks is altered after acupuncture and that these alterations exhibit point specificity. Eighteen healthy young adults were scanned before and after acupuncture at Zusanli ST-36 and a sham … [Read more...]

Electro-acupuncture (EA) has an effect equal to noradrenaline in reducing hypotension during anesthesia in patients undergoing liver transplantation, according to an Iranian research team. Forty patients with end-stage liver disease who were donor transplantation were randomised … [Read more...]

Researchers from Hong Kong suggest that electro-acupuncture can alter the activation of neural pathways for pain perception in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients, who are characterised by abnormal brain activation in response to pain signals from the gut. Thirty … [Read more...]

A team of Chinese investigators has shown that acupuncture has regulatory effects on mucosal and cellular immunity in patients with allergic asthma. One hundred patients with allergic asthma  and 74 patients with chronic bronchitis received manual acupuncture three times per … [Read more...]