Acupuncture for Dry Eye Syndrome

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22615787

This is the study to evaluate the effectiveness of acupuncture treatment for Dry Eye Syndrome.

This study was conducted in local hospitals in South Korea, and the patient's number was 150.

4 weeks of acupuncture treatment (bilateral BL2, GB14, TE 23, Ex1, ST1, GB20, LI4, LI11 and single GV23) These acupoints are located around eyes.

 

Acupuncture to treat nausea and vomitting in early pregnancy

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11843784

RESULTS:

Women receiving traditional acupuncture reported less nausea (p < 0.01) throughout the trial and less dry retching (p < 0.01) from the second week compared with women in the no acupuncture control group. Women who received p6 acupuncture (p < 0.05) reported less nausea from the second week of the trial, and less dry retching (p < 0.001) from the third week compared with women in the no acupuncture control group. Women in the sham acupuncture group (p < 0.01) reported less nausea and dry retching (p < 0.001) from the third week compared with women in the no acupuncture group. No differences in vomiting were found among the groups at any time.

CONCLUSION:

Acupuncture is an effective treatment for women who experience nausea and dry retching in early pregnancy. A time-related placebo effect was found for some women.

 

Acupuncture is effective for rising pregnancy rate in IVF

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23512550

The clinical pregnancy rate in the acupuncture group was significantly higher than that in the control and sham groups (35.7% vs 7.1% vs 10.7%; p=0.0169).

Acupuncture treated group-35.7%  of pregnancy rate.
Controlled group- 7.1%of pregnancy rate.
Sham acupuncture( not using acupoints, insert needle randomly)-10.7%

CONCLUSIONS:

In this study, acupuncture and moxibustion increased pregnancy rates when used as an adjuvant treatment in women undergoing IVF, when embryo implantation had failed