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Reviews and articles
Maggie Ju (2014) Current opinion in acupuncture on stroke rehabilitation
The Journal of Chinese Medicine And Acupuncture Volume 21 Issue 2 September 2014 P9
Maggie Ju. (2015) What Part Does Acupuncture Play in IVF?
The Journal of Chinese Medicine And Acupuncture Volume 22 Issue 1 March 2015 P21
Maggie Ju (2020) The Potentiality of COVID-19 Treatment with Chinese Herbal Medicine in the UK
The Journal of Chinese Medicine And Acupuncture Volume 27 Issue 2 November 2020 P9

Tuesday, 31 March 2020
Research has shown that acupuncture is effective for back pain.
Monday, 30 March 2020
Acupuncture is as good as conventional medication for migraines.
References
Trinh KV et al Med Acupunct. 2019 Apr 1;31(2):85-97. doi: 10.1089/acu.2019.1337. Epub 2019 Apr 19.
Saturday, 28 March 2020
New research confirmed that acupuncture is effective for migraines
References
Xu S et al BMJ. 2020 Mar 25;368:m697. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m697.
Friday, 27 March 2020
Could you respond to acupuncture with your migraines?
Forty-one patients with migraines were recruited and offered 4 weeks of acupuncture treatment and two brain imaging sessions at the Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital affiliated with Capital Medical University. Patients were asked to keep a headache diary for 4 weeks before treatment and during acupuncture treatment. Those with at least a 50% reduction in the number of migraine days were defined as responders.
Results showed that after 4 weeks of acupuncture, 19 patients were responded to acupuncture treatments. 10 brain areas changed to the treatments include the frontal, temporal, parietal, precuneus, and cuneus gyri. The reduction in the number of migraine days was correlated with baseline brain gray matter volume in the cuneus, parietal, and frontal gyri in all patients. Moreover, the left cuneus showed a longitudinal increase in GM volume in responders. The results suggest that pre-treatment brain structure could be a novel predictor of the outcome of acupuncture in the treatment of migraines. Imaging features could be a useful tool for the prediction of acupuncture efficacy, which would enable the development of a personalized medicine strategy.
References
Yan XJ et al Front Neurol. 2020 Mar 5;11:111. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00111. eCollection 2020.
Tuesday, 24 March 2020
What are muscle knots?
Monday, 23 March 2020
Acupuncture is effective to treat chronic pain.
Acupuncture improved the pain compared with the waiting list group. Acupuncture has better effects than conventional medication. Acupuncture has similar effects to physiotherapy. Acupuncture plus physiotherapy has better effects than physiotherapy alone.
References
Chen YJ et al Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2019 Dec 4;2019:6283912. doi: 10.1155/2019/6283912. eCollection 2019.
Friday, 20 March 2020
Acupuncture reduced chronic pain and improved physical function
References
McKee MD et al J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Feb 19. doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-05583-6. [Epub ahead of print]
Monday, 16 March 2020
Novel coronavirus COVID-19 special
Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases for example, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).
Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a new strain that was discovered in 2019 and has not been previously identified in humans and that can affect your lungs and airways.
The COVID-19 viral disease is officially a pandemic, announced by the World Health Organization on Wednesday 11th March 2020. It has started in Wu Han of China in December 2019 and spread into at least 196 countries with over 400,000 cases and killed more than 20000 people in a few months.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Trusted Source, COVID-19 is highly contagious, which means it spreads easily from person to person. The incubation period for the novel coronavirus is between 2 to 14 days after exposure. It spreads mostly from person to person through close contact or from droplets that are scattered when a person with the virus sneezes or coughs. People who have the virus are most contagious when they’re showing symptoms.
It is possible that someone with the coronavirus infection without showing symptoms can transmit the virus, though it is less common. Also there is a possibility that the virus can be transmitted via touching virus-contaminated surfaces and then touching your mouth or nose, though it is not main way of spreading.
COVID-19 symptoms start as mild symptoms and gradually get worse over a few days for many people. The main symptoms include fever, shortness of breath, cough, fatigue. Other symptoms are achiness, nasal congestion, sore throat and running nose.
What to do?
Follow Government rules and seek advice from NHS helpline
Self- isolation
Use the 111 coronavirus service, if
you feel you cannot cope with your symptoms at home
your condition gets worse
your symptoms do not get better after 7 days
Should you do acupuncture, if you have COVID-19?
No. You shouldn’t do acupuncture, if you have symptoms of COVID-19. Acupuncture can’t kill COVID-19, but there is a possibility of increasing the spreading of the virus due to its high contagion nature. In China, acupuncture is not used to treat COVID-19.
Wishing everyone stay safe and well.
References
https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-pandemic-who.html
https://www.healthline.com/health/coronavirus-incubation-period#how-does-it-spread
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Acupuncture effectively treated with patients with sciatica
References
Liu et al J Pain Res. 2019 Dec 31;12:3511-3520. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S210672. eCollection 2019
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
A survey for acupuncture during pregnancy and the perinatal period.
References
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1871519219300666
Monday, 9 March 2020
Successful acupuncture treatment for fertility case report
References
Zhu J etc Open Access Maced J Med Sci. 2018 Sep 19;6(9):1685-1687. doi: 10.3889/oamjms.2018.379. eCollection 2018 Sep 25.
Saturday, 7 March 2020
Acupuncture is safe to release discomfort during pregnancy.
References
Moon HY et al BJOG. 2020 Jan;127(1):79-86. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.15925. Epub 2019 Sep 19
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Acupuncture increased pregnancy success rates for women with unexplained infertility undergoing IVF
References
Guven PG et al Taiwan J Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Mar;59(2):282-286. doi: 10.1016/j.tjog.2020.01.018.
Monday, 2 March 2020
Research shows that acupuncture combined with medication improves endocrine hormone levels and ovarian reserve function in poor ovarian response patients undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo transplantation
A total of 100 volunteer POR women undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo transplantation (IVF-ET) were recruited and were randomly divided into control, medication (Climen, composed of estradiol valerate and cyproterone acetate), acupuncture and acupuncture+medication (combined treatment) groups. Patients of the medication group were asked to orally take Climen (1 tablet/d for 21 days) beginning from the 3rd day of the menstruation, which was repeated for 3 menstrual cycles. Patients of the acupuncture group received manual acupuncture stimulation of Guanyuan (CV4), and bilateral Taixi (KI3), Sanyinjiao (SP6) of and Tai-chong (LR3) from day 8 to 15 of menstruation (follicular phase), once daily for 3 menstrual cycles. On the 2nd day of menstruation of the cycle, the ovarian reserve function was detected, including measurement of serum follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), and estradiol (E2) contents. At the end of ovulation induction, the assisted pregnancy indexes and outcomes were studied, including administration of dosage and days of gonadotropin (Gn), the diameter of dominant oocyte, level of E2 on the trigger day, the numbers of ultrasound-guided-retrieved oocyte and the cultivated high-quality embryo (grade 1 and 2).
Their result has shown that
After the treatment, the contents of serum FSH, LH and E2 in the medication, acupuncture and combined treatment groups were significantly reduced and the content of serum AMH and ovary AFC in the medication, acupuncture and combined treatment groups were obviously increased in comparison with their own pre-treatment or with the control group. The group with medication plus acupuncture has the lowest levels of FSH, LH and E2. The dosage of Gn in the combined treatment group and the number of Gn administration days in the acupuncture and combined treatment groups were significantly fewer; serum E2 levels on the trigger day in the medication, acupuncture and combined treatment groups, and the high-quality embryo number in the combined treatment group were considerably higher. The high-quality embryo number in the combined treatment group was significantly larger.
References
Dong XLet al Zhen Ci Yan Jiu. 2019 Aug 25;44(8):599-604. doi: 10.13702/j.1000-0607.180779.
Coronavirus vaccine
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Can acupuncture help patients with stroke? Stroke is a serious condition which blood supply to the brain is cut off. It is the second most...
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Hemiplegia which is severer than hemiparesis is paralysis of one half of the body on the same side. Brain damage is one of the causes. The p...
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