acupuncture and phytotherapy

Judith Schlay, et ally, have developed a randomized controlled study to assess the effectiveness of acupuncture and amitriptyline in the treatment of pain from peripheral neuropathy in patients with HIV (HIV positive).
Patients were divided into 3 groups:
(1) a modified double-blind 2 × 2 factorial design of SAR, amitriptyline, or the combination Compared with placebo
(2) amodified [...]

Auriculotherapy is highly recommended, in the realms of non-conventional medicine in treating addictions. However as mentioned in other articles, there are no studies that actually prove their effectiveness.
Arthur Margollin, et ally, conducted an investigation to study the true efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of cocaine dependence/addiction. To do this they created a randomized controlled study over [...]

Smoking represents one of the greatest current risks to public health. Among the several therapies for quit smoking (addiction treatment programs) advertised is common to find acupuncture. In particular, auricular acupuncture.
The auricular acupuncture can be done with needles, electrical stimulation or by placing small bead – can be seeds – into specific acupuncture points located on the [...]

In the first article I mentioned a therapeutic example where the placebo effect may have been raised to the level of valid clinical intervention throughout the history of Chinese medicine. Another historical example I want to talk about does not concern the subject of “Art for Health and Longevity” but refers to acupuncture, in particular [...]

One of the traumas of acupuncturists today is knowing whether acupuncture, that they practice, is only a placebo or have real value and to what extent is it negative just being a placebo. For some months I have walked around with this issue and would like now to share my doubts with the reader.
I will present [...]

A recent study showed that needling acupuncture points can help relieve pain by activating a natural chemical called adenosine. The researchers also found that they can increase the analgesic effect by combining acupuncture with a medicine used to treat cancer called deoxicoformin. This drug is known, is able to maintain high levels of adenosine during longer time.
The [...]