Science & Research

Acupuncture info from NYS Office of Professions

Anesthesia & Surgery

Electroacupuncture vs Sham Electroacupuncture in the Treatment of Postoperative Ileus After Laparoscopic Surgery for Colorectal Cancer: A Multicenter, Randomized Clinical Trial. – JAMA Surg. 2023

Electroacupuncture-reduced sedative and analgesic requirements for diagnostic EUS: a prospective, randomized, double-blinded, sham-controlled study. Gastrointest Endosc.

Acupuncture analgesia: I. The scientific basis. – Anesth Analg.

A randomized, single-blind, prospective trial of auricular ‘battlefield’ acupuncture for the reduction of postoperative tonsillectomy pain in adults. Pain Manag.

Battlefield Acupuncture Use for Perioperative Anesthesia in Veterans Affairs Surgical Patients: A Single-Center Randomized Controlled Trial. – J Integr Complement Med.

Battlefield acupuncture to treat low back pain in the emergency department. Am J Emerg Med.

Reversing Diabetes

Video: Reversing Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus – Mobeen Syed MD. MSc.

Insulin-Producing Beta Cells Are Not Irreversibly Lost in Early Type 2 Diabetes – American Diabetes Association

Reversal of type 2 diabetes: normalisation of beta cell function in association with decreased pancreas and liver triacylglycerol. Diabetologia.

Repair of Damaged Pancreatic β Cells: New Hope for a Type 2 Diabetes Reversal? J Transl Int Med

Primary care-led weight management for remission of type 2 diabetes (DiRECT): an open-label, cluster-randomised trial. – Lancet.

The Brain

Acupuncture mobilizes the brain’s default mode and its anti-correlated network in healthy subjects. – Brain Res.

Acupuncture, the limbic system, and the anticorrelated networks of the brain. – Auton Neurosci.

Seizures

A Review on Central Nervous System Effects of Gastrodin. – Front Pharmacol.

Gastrodin decreases immunoreactivities of gamma-aminobutyric acid shunt enzymes in the hippocampus of seizure-sensitive gerbils. – J Neurosci Res.

Anticonvulsive and free radical scavenging actions of two herbs, Uncaria rhynchophylla (MIQ) Jack and Gastrodia elata Bl., in kainic acid-treated rats. – Life Sci.

Migraines

Manual acupuncture versus sham acupuncture and usual care for prophylaxis of episodic migraine without aura: multicentre, randomised clinical trial. – BMJ

The Long-term Effect of Acupuncture for Migraine Prophylaxis: A Randomized Clinical Trial. – JAMA Intern Med.

Mental Health

Acupuncture for Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial. – JAMA Psychiatry. 2024

Pain (Pain is also in other categories on this page)

Effectiveness of Electroacupuncture or Auricular Acupuncture vs Usual Care for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Among Cancer Survivors: The PEACE Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Oncol. 2021 May

Worthy Mentions

The prevalence of antibodies against wheat and milk proteins in blood donors and their contribution to neuroimmune reactivities. – Nutrients.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Acupuncture improves the symptoms, intestinal microbiota, and inflammation of patients with mild to moderate Crohn’s disease – EClinicalMedicine. 2022 Feb