Background: The Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) has been treated so far by various drugs, such as opioids and non-opioids. There is some concern about NAS babies who receive chemical drug treatment. Some researchers mentioned that shorter pharmacological treatment and less lengthy hospitalization are associated with severa...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to critically assess whether acupuncture therapy reduces vasomotor menopausal symptoms and to evaluate the adverse effects of acupuncture therapy on the basis of the results of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). METHODS Nineteen electronic databases, including English, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese databases, were systematically searched for RCTs in which...

Purpose: To investigate the clinical efficacy of acupuncture and Chinese herbal fumigation in relieving neck, shoulder, lumbar, leg pain patients. 
 Methods: This study recruited 94 patients with admitted to Ma’anshan Hospital Traditional Medicine between January 2019 December 2020. The were randomized into either group or comprehensive group. Study was given routine therapy, including adm...

Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese treatment for pain. 3000-year-oldtraditional therapy from China. Electroacupuncture similar to acupuncture in that it uses electrical stimulation. It works similarly orthodox excites the same regions. As with conventional acupuncture, needles are inserted at designated points on body. The then coupled gadget leverages tiny clips establish consistent electric...

Acupuncture is infrequently studied in the pediatric oncology population; however, it has immense potential as a complementary cancer care modality. The aim of our analysis was to characterize the patients and utilization of acupuncture therapy among the pediatric oncology population at a tertiary care pediatric hospital. A retrospective analysis of medical records for patients between the ages...

Objective. To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for cancer-related pain. Methods. A systematic review of literatures published from database inception to February 2015 was conducted in eight databases. RCTs involving acupuncture for treatment of cancer-related pain were identified. Two researchers independently performed article selection, data extraction, and quality assessm...

BACKGROUND Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is usually treated with opiate derivatives and supported with nonpharmacological treatment. METHODS This prospective, randomized, controlled, blinded, single-center study was carried out between March 2009 and November 2014. Newborn infants diagnosed with NAS after maternal opioid substitution therapy were eligible for inclusion. Infants were rand...

BACKGROUND Acupuncture is one of the important parts of therapeutic methods in traditional Chinese medicine, and has been widely used for the treatment of nerve deafness in recent years. The current study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture therapy for nerve deafness compared with conventional medicine therapy. METHODS PubMed, the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure D...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this review was to evaluate the efficacy of acupuncture for treatment of chronic headache. METHODS We searched the databases of Medline (1966-2007), CINAHL, The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (2006), and Scopus for randomized controlled trials investigating the use of acupuncture for chronic headache. Studies were included in which adults with chroni...

BACKGROUND Despite the popularity of acupuncture, evidence of its efficacy for reducing pain remains equivocal. OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy and safety of traditional Chinese acupuncture (TCA) compared with sham acupuncture (needling at defined nonacupuncture points) and conservative therapy in patients with chronic pain due to osteoarthritis of the knee. DESIGN Randomized, controlled t...