Acupuncture pushed to treat drug addiction

Acupuncture pushed to treat drug addiction

"Breathe in and out."Those are the instructions from Amy Landolt as the licensed acupuncturist inserts five small orange needles into the upper part of a person’s ear at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center in Evanston.One needle is for stress, another puts the body at rest and a third is used to heal internal organs and process fear, she explains. A fourth needle is inserted for irritability and the fifth one is for “letting go of things that no longe…

Insufficient reporting of adverse effects in acupuncture trials

This cross-sectional meta-epidemiological study investigated the patient-reported acupuncture-related adverse events (A-AEs) in acupuncture randomised controlled trials (RCTs). All RCTs were included that used acupuncture as the intervention group to obtain the efficacy and/or safety of acupuncture therapy and that based the acupuncture therapy on Traditional Medicine theory. The researchers assessed (1) the general characteristics of