Non-traditional acupuncture (NTA), defined as the stimulation of certain parts body includes; acupressure, transcutaneous electrical acupoint (TEAS), laser acupuncture, intradermal needles, and catgut embedding (ACE). This systematic review evaluated their efficacy safety for smoking cessation. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing NTA with sham or conventional therapy cessation were in...

the basis of acupuncture is still being studied from many different aspects. some preliminary views include: 1) the analgesic function of acupuncture derives from the clashing of the biochemical lines of acupuncture and those of the pain stimulus in the transmitting processes of the central nervous system, the former overriding the latter. 2) acupuncture strengthens the cerebral cortex's i...

Background: One of the most commonly used auricular acupuncture points selected for different pain treatment regimens is Shenmen. This point on the ear has been recognized as having a wide number of applications, as found by scientific investigation. Methods: Within this crossover study, the ear acupoint Shenmen was stimulated with two different kinds of laser (green, 532 nm and yellow, 589 nm)...

BACKGROUND Evidence is building steadily on the effectiveness of acupuncture therapy in pain relief and repeated acupuncture-induced pain relief is accompanied by improvement of hippocampal neural synaptic plasticity. To further test the cellular and molecular changes underlying analgesic effect of acupuncture, the global change of acupuncture associated protein profiles in the hippocampus unde...

BACKGROUND The non-invasive nature of laser biostimulation has made lasers an attractive alternative in Medical Acupuncture at the last 25 years. However, there is still an uncertainty as to whether they work or their effect is just placebo. Although a plethora of scientific papers published about the topic showing positive clinical results, there is still a lack of objective scientific proofs ...

Acupuncture therapy has been proved to be effective for diverse diseases, symptoms, and conditions in numerous clinical trials. The growing popularity of acupuncture therapy has triggered the development of modern acupuncture-like stimulation devices (ASDs), which are equivalent or superior to manual acupuncture with respect to safety, decreased risk of infection, and facilitation of clinical t...

According to the definition of the International Headache Society, burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is an intraoral burning sensation for which no dental or medical cause could be identified. Recently, various authors suggested that acupuncture might be effective in patients with BMS. In ancient acupuncture texts, it was stated that ‘the Spleen opens in the mouth and the Heart in the tongue’, so th...

abstract: acupuncture is increasingly used in children; however, the safety of pediatric acupuncture has yet to be reported from systematic review. acupuncture has become a dominant complementary and alternative modality in clinical practice today but its associated risk has been questioned. the national institutes of health consensus statement states “one of the advantages of acupuncture is th...