Publications by authors named "Jin-Cao Zhou"
[Systematic review and Meta-analysis on the auriculotherapy in treatment of insomnia].
Zhongguo Zhen Jiu
October 2022
Article Synopsis
- A review assessed the effectiveness and safety of auriculotherapy for treating insomnia, using data from 38 articles involving 3,707 cases, analyzed via meta-analysis software.
- The results indicated that auriculotherapy outperformed western medications, conventional acupuncture, and Chinese herbal medicine in improving sleep quality, with reductions in Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) scores, although it was comparable to acupuncture.
- Factors like the choice of ear points (especially those near the vagus nerve) and types of stimulants used showed some variability in effectiveness, but stimulation frequency did not significantly impact outcomes.
Objective: To observe the effect of five-element acupuncture on the cognitive function repair of migraine patients with depression/anxiety disorder.
Methods: The migraine patients with depression/anxiety disorder (19 cases, 5 cases dropped off) were taken as the observation group, and received five-element acupuncture twice a week for 8 weeks. Healthy subjects (19 cases) were selected by demographic data matching as the control group.
Objective. To identify the optimum treatment protocol for insomnia among auricular, body, and abdominal needling methods. Methods.
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- The study aimed to assess the effects of fire needle therapy, electroacupuncture, and calcium carbonate D3 on pain, joint dysfunction, and urine fluoride levels in patients with skeletal fluorosis.
- Ninety-five patients were randomly divided into three treatment groups, receiving one of the therapies for a specified duration, with various points stimulated in the acupuncture groups.
- Results indicated improvements in pain and joint movement across all groups, with significant increases in urine fluoride levels in the fire needle and electroacupuncture groups; however, no significant differences were found between the effectiveness of the three treatments.
Objective: To observe the impacts of acupuncture of reinforcing kidney and activating spleen on the excretion of urinary fluoride and pain of the patients with drinking-water type fluorosis.
Methods: The randomized controlled and single-blind trial was adopted. Seventy-two cases were randomized into an observation group and a control group, 36 cases in each one.