1,257 results match your criteria: "Institute of Acupuncture and moxibustion[Affiliation]"

Objective: To evaluate the report quality of Chinese and English randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of acupuncture based on the CONSORT statement and STRICTA checklist.

Methods: The Chinese and English RCTs of acupuncture published from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2019 were searched in 7 databases including PubMed. The report quality of the included RCTs was evaluated with the CONSORT 2010 statement and STRICTA checklist.

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[Discussion on "sugar needle - comfortable acupuncture and moxibustion"].

Zhongguo Zhen Jiu

March 2023

American TCM Society, New York 10016, United States.

The cases of feeling comfort during acupuncture and moxibustion treatment in literature were summarized and its biological basis was explored. A simple classification of comfort was made, and the importance of obtaining comfort in acupuncture treatment was pointed out. Considering the pursuit of less pain and harmlessness in modern clinical treatment, sugar needle should be advocated and popularized in current clinical practice of acupuncture and moxibustion.

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Based on data mining technology, the acupoints compatibility rules of acupuncture for depression diseases were explored. The randomized controlled trial (RCT) articles regarding acupuncture for depression diseases published from establishment of database to September 2nd, 2022 were searched in CNKI database, Wangfang database, VIP database, SinoMed database, PubMed, EMbase, Web of Science and Cochrane Library. The use frequency of acupoints, meridian tropism, selection of special acupoints and acupoint association rules for five common depression diseases, including primary depression, post-stroke depression, menopausal syndrome, psychoneurosis and anxiety disorder, were analyzed by Python programming language.

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Evidence has shown the roles of taVNS and TECS in improving depression but few studies have explored their synergistic effects on MDD. Therefore, the treatment responsivity and neurological effects of TECAS were investigated and compared to escitalopram, a commonly used medication for depression. Fifty patients with mild-to-moderate MDD (29 in the TECAS group and 21 in another) and 49 demographically matched healthy controls were recruited.

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Unlabelled: Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation was recently reported to have a therapeutic potential for functional dyspepsia (FD). This study aimed to explore the integrative effects and mechanisms of auricular vagus nerve stimulation (aVNS) in a rodent model of FD.

Methods: We evaluated the effects of aVNS on visceral hypersensitivity, gastric motility and open field test (OFT) activity in iodoacetamide (IA)-treated rats.

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[The rules of acupoint selection of acupuncture and moxibustion for scrofula in ancient times].

Zhongguo Zhen Jiu

February 2023

Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China; National Clinical Research Center of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of TCM, Tianjin 300193.

Based on data mining technology, the rules of acupoint selection of acupuncture-moxibustion for scrofula in ancient times were analyzed. The relevant articles of acupuncture and moxibustion for scrofula were searched in the , and the original article, acupoint name, acupoint characteristic, and acupoint meridian tropism, etc. were screened and extracted.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study looked at how moxibustion, a type of heat therapy, affects a specific signaling pathway and immune function in rats with a type of diarrhea called IBS-D.
  • Researchers used a group of young rats, some healthy and some made to have IBS-D through different stress methods, and then divided them into three treatment groups: one with moxibustion, one with medication, and a model group without treatment.
  • After testing, they found changes in body weight, stool consistency, and immune responses in the rats, suggesting moxibustion might help improve some symptoms of IBS-D.
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Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of acupuncture for prevention of moderate to severe seasonal allergic rhinitis.

Methods: A total of 105 patients with moderate to severe seasonal allergic rhinitis were randomly divided into an observation group (53 cases, 3 cases dropped off) and a control group (52 cases, 4 cases dropped off). The patients in the observation group were treated with acupuncture at Yintang (GV 24), Yingxiang (LI 20), Hegu (LI 4), Zusanli (ST 36), Fengchi (GB 20), Feishu (BL 13), etc.

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Perspective of Calcium Imaging Technology Applied to Acupuncture Research.

Chin J Integr Med

January 2024

Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100700, China.

Acupuncture, a therapeutic treatment defined as the insertion of needles into the body at specific points (ie, acupoints), has growing in popularity world-wide to treat various diseases effectively, especially acute and chronic pain. In parallel, interest in the physiological mechanisms underlying acupuncture analgesia, particularly the neural mechanisms have been increasing. Over the past decades, our understanding of how the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system process signals induced by acupuncture has developed rapidly by using electrophysiological methods.

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Objective: To summarize and identify the available instruments/methods assessing the adequacy of acupuncture in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for proposing a new improved instrument.

Methods: A systematic literature search was carried out in 7 electronic databases from inception until 21st November 2022. Any study evaluating the adequacy or quality of acupuncture, specifying specific acupuncture treatment-related factors as criteria of subgroup analysis, or developing an instrument/tool to assess the adequacy or quality of acupuncture in an RCT was included.

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Results: EA intervention and OxPAPC injection could relieve mechanical allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia caused by CIA. Paw edema and pathological damage of synovium were significantly ameliorated after EA intervention and OxPAPC injection. Furthermore, EA intervention and OxPAPC injection markedly reduced the contents of serum TNF-, IL-1, and IL-6, as well as the protein expression levels of synovial TLR2, TLR4, MyD88, and NF-B p-p65.

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As a traditional medical therapy, stimulation at the Lianquan (CV23) acupoint, located at the depression superior to the hyoid bone, has been shown to be beneficial in dysphagia. However, little is known about the neurological mechanism by which this peripheral stimulation approach treats for dysphagia. Here, we first identified a cluster of excitatory neurons in layer 5 (L5) of the primary motor cortex (M1) that can regulate swallowing function in male mice by modulating mylohyoid activity.

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Melanoma Incidence by Sex, Indoor Tanning, and Body Site.

JAMA Intern Med

April 2023

Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Oncology, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Third Affiliated Hospital, Beijing, China.

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The activation of histone deacetylases 4 prevented endothelial dysfunction: A crucial mechanism of HuangqiGuizhiWuwu Decoction in improving microcirculation dysfunction in diabetes.

J Ethnopharmacol

May 2023

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South China Research Center for Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510006, PR China; Research Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Innovative Institute of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, 250355, PR China. Electronic address:

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: The regulation of epigenetic factors is considered a crucial target for solving complex chronic diseases such as cardio-cerebrovascular diseases. HuangqiGuizhiWuwu Decoction (HGWWD), a classic Chinese prescription, is mainly used to treat various vascular diseases. Although our previous studies reported that HGWWD could effectively prevent vascular dysfunction in diabetic rodent models, the precise mechanism is still elusive.

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Electroacupuncture alleviates perioperative hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis dysfunction circRNA-miRNA-mRNA networks.

Front Mol Neurosci

January 2023

Department of Integrative Medicine and Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Acupuncture Mechanism and Acupoint Function, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Electroacupuncture (EA) has long been used to alleviate surgery-induced hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysfunction. However, its downstream gene targets in the brain remain unclear. The aim of the present study was to clarify the potential targets of EA based on RNA sequencing techniques (RNA-seq).

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Talent team construction is the foundation of translational medicine research of acupuncture and moxibustion. In college education and continuing education after graduation, with the idea of translational medicine, it is necessary to cultivate both the ability of basic research and clinical skills for the students of traditional Chinese medicine, especially those majored in acupuncture and moxibustion, as well as train the acupuncture-moxibustion researchers who qualified with medical practitioner to contact with clinical practice, discover clinical scientific problems and research priorities, and engage in basic research at the same time. Acupuncture-moxibustion practitioners with higher education should be trained to be able to engage in basic and development researches on the premise of improving their clinical ability, so as to cultivate more translational research talents, build translational research team, and promote the pace of research and application of acupuncture-moxibustion translational medicine.

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The regularity of acupoint-viscera correlation is a basic problem in the study of acupuncture and moxibustion. At present, there are two main theories of the regularities: (1) the law of acupoint effect determined by meridian circulation; (2) segmental dominance of acupoint effect. These two regularities belong to different paradigm systems, they are not complementary relations within the same conceptual system.

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[Translational medicine research on literature theory of acupuncture and moxibustion].

Zhen Ci Yan Jiu

January 2023

Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.

The development of translational medicine is on the rise, and its advocated relationship between preclinical research and clinical application and two-way translational research mode inspire and promote us to think about solving the corresponding problems faced by acupuncture and moxibustion medicine. The theoretical research of basic research should be closely connected with the practice and application due to the characteristics of the subject, but seems to be seriously disjointed at pre-sent. Therefore, four aspects as "the relationship between acupuncture theory and clinical practice" "correctly interpreting the connotation of traditional theory of acupuncture and moxibustion" "distinguishing which is based on the practice and which is the influence of cultural concepts" and "distinguishing what are the ancient medical discoveries and inventions and what are the theoretical explanations of such discoveries and inventions" should be grasped.

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[The translational medicine approach to acupuncture and moxibustion].

Zhen Ci Yan Jiu

January 2023

Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.

The idea of translational medicine from "laboratory to bedside" has become more and more popular. The main purpose of translational medicine is to promote basic research to solve practical clinical problems and improve the level of clinical treatment. It is thus a whole new medical paradigm.

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For more than half a century,the modern bioresearch in acupuncture has made remarkable advancements, proving scientific basis underlying the traditional, intuitive treatment, as well as leading to some new discoveries with the potential to enhance the effectiveness of acupuncture as we know it. Meanwhile, the clinical researches have started to shift its paradigm from traditional individual observation to modern evidence-based medicine. However, there is little interaction between basic and clinic researches, which are like two separate worlds, not benefiting each other.

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Skin blood flux (SkBF) changes caused by drinking cold water are generally associated with vagal tone and osmotic factors in the digestive system. However, there is still a lack of relevant research on whether there are left and right differences in these SkBF change. In the current study, a total of 60 subjects were recruited.

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Microglia, resident macrophages of the CNS, are essential to brain development, homeostasis, and disease. Microglial activation and proliferation are hallmarks of many CNS diseases, including neuropathic pain. However, molecular mechanisms that govern the spinal neuroimmune axis in the setting of neuropathic pain remain incompletely understood.

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Background: Insomnia is a well-recognized clinical sleep disorder in the adult population. It has been established that acupuncture has a clinical effects in the treatment of insomnia; however, research on the underlying neural circuits involved in these effects is limited.

Methods: The modified multiple platform method (MMPM) was used to establish a rat model of chronic sleep deprivation (CSD).

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Background: Previous studies have found that transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) is clinically effective in the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD), and its efficacy mechanism is related to modulation of the default mode network (DMN) and cognitive control network (CCN). However, the mechanism of the immediate effect of taVNS for MDD remains to be elucidated.

Methods: A total of 58 patients with MDD and 54 healthy controls(HCs) were included in this study.

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