Inadequate breastfeeding leads to a lack of nutritional intake by infants. Reduced breast milk secretion can be caused psychological and physiological factors. Not getting enough increase the risk gastrointestinal infections, obesity in babies. It also reduce level intelligence children, infant mortality. This study was literature review with sample 10 journals, including ScienceDirect, PubMed,...

BACKGROUND Sleep disorder in haemodialysis patients can lead to disturbance in their psychosocial function and interpersonal relations, and reduced quality of life. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of acupressure on the quality of sleep of haemodialysis patients. METHODS In a randomised controlled trial, 108 haemodialysis patients were randomly divided into three gro...

Practitioners working with patients undergoing chemotherapy regularly encourage them to use acupressure in the form of Sea Bands for the relief of treatment-related nausea and vomiting. This mini-review sets out to uncover and examine the evidence base for this recommendation. A mini systematic review was carried out to identify randomized controlled trials comparing the use of acupressure plus...

Auricular acupressure is widely used in complementary and alternative medicine to reduce body weight, but little is known about the effects of auricular acupressure on body weight parameters in patients with chronic schizophrenia. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of auricular acupressure on body weight parameters in patients with chronic schizophrenia. Eighty-six inpatients...

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 researchers included randomized controlled trials published in English and Chinese. The included trials compared acupuncture with control groups that received inactive (eg, sham acupuncture) or active (e.g., Chinese herbs and hypnotics and hormone therapy) interventions for relief of menopause-related sleep disturbances. They defined acupuncture as manual acupuncture, acupressure, electroac...

ABSTRAK Gangguan kecemasan adalah kondisi yang paling sering terjadi pada remaja, diikuti oleh gangguan perilaku, mood, dan penggunaan zat. Permaslahan muncul remaja/ siswi kecemasan, nyeri (kepala, diminore), belum pernah mendapatkan informasi terkait acupressure untuk kesehatan. Acupressure telah terbukti efektif menghilangkan berbagai rasa sakit mengurangi dismenore (gangguan menstruasi), pe...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This study evaluates the clinical effectiveness of a multicomponent aroma-massage with an acupressure treatment protocol and compared it to cognitive training for the management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. BACKGROUND Pharmacological interventions have been unsatisfactory in managing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia; thus, comple...

OBJECTIVE To describe responses issued by pregnant women, and the improvement of the gravidic discomforts after the use of the acupressure technique. METHOD Qualitative and descriptive study conducted with 15 pregnant women between November 2013 and February 2014 in a Basic Health Unit in Natal, RN, Brazil. The data were collected through unstructured interviews and depositions that were then...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical efficacy of acupressure with treatment induced by ondansetron and metoclopramide on reduction of the severity of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) after strabismus surgery. METHODS There were 200 patients with ASA classes I-II, ages 10 to 60 years old, who underwent strabismus surgery that were included in this randomized, prospective, double-blind, pl...