Clinical Efficacy, Mechanisms, and Safety of Acupuncture and Moxibustion

نویسندگان

  • Jaung-Geng Lin
  • Yi-Hung Chen
  • Xin-Yan Gao
  • Lixing Lao
  • Hyejung Lee
  • Gerhard Litscher
چکیده

1 School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan 2Graduate Institute of Acupuncture Science, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan 3Department of Physiology, Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China 4 School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 10 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong 5 Acupuncture and Meridian Science Research Center, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea 6 Stronach Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine and TCM Research Center, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria

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دوره 2014  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2014