THE TREATMENT OF FIBROMYALGIA USING ACUPUNCTURE

Acupuncture can play an important role in the treatment of fibromyalgia. "Chinese Medicine Times" publishes an interesting article about it.
http://www.chinesemedicinetimes.com/section/341/1/the_treatment_of_fibromyalgia_using_acupuncture

Sham acupuncture

An interesting editorial article from The British Medical Journal by Cummings and White about sham acupuncture. I think that placebo have a very different role in the evaluation of acupuncture than in the evaluation of drugs. What do you thing?
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/338/jan27_2/a3115
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/section_pdf/338/jan27_2/a2760.pdf

ACUPUNCTURE FOR MIGRAINE PROPHYLAXIS

The Cochrane Library publised an updated version of a Cochrane review to investigate whether acupuncture is effective in reducing headache frequency in patients with migraine. The conclusion is that there is consistent evidence that acupuncture provides additional benefit to treatment of acute migraine attacks.

http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD001218/pdf_fs.html

INSOMNIA AND VIVID DREAMING

Insomnia is a common pathology in the general population. The aim of this article is to show us that there is a way of interpreting dreams beyond Freud's system. http://www.classicalchinesemedicine.org/clinicalinfo/insomnia_article.pdf

ABOUT TONGUES

A funny web page about tongue diagnosis.
http://www.acumedic.com/flash/tongue/index.htm

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year.

TONGUE

What do you thing about this tongue?

MULTI-BED ACUPUNCTURE CLINICS

Here you have an article about multi-bed acupuncture clinics, that is a recent successful phenomenon in the United Kingdom. A practitioner treats more than one patient per hour in the same room, like in China.

What do you thing about it?

http://www.jcm.co.uk/media/cms/File/Multibed.pdf

ELECTROACUPUNCTURE AND MEMORY LOSS

A study done by the Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of Beijing’s China Academy of Chinese Medical Science has investigated whether electroacupuncture could improve learning and memory which was typically impaired in diabetic rats with cerebral ischemia.
After electroacupuncture treatment, the long-term potentiation (LTP) impaired by both diabetes and cerebral ischemia was restored significantly. These results suggest that electroacupuncture can ameliorate learning and memory capacity impaired.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0G-4T4J888-3&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=6c5b092a7c0ef2cf53aa517c16815ebb

Moxibustion

Here is a very interesting article about moxibustion from "Chinese Medicine Times". You can't miss it!

http://www.chinesemedicinetimes.com/section/290/1/the_forgotten_art_of_moxa_needling