Acupuncture May Be Beneficial In Relieving Indigestion During Pregnancy

[Celebration]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153223.php

In this study, forty two pregnant women with symptoms of indigestion were assigned randomly to either conventional treatment (counseling on nutrition and indigestion cures) or conventional treatment in addition to acupuncture sessions once or twice a week.

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Results showed that the women in the acupuncture group had less severe symptoms and required less medication than women in the conventionally treated group.

The average intensity of heartburn which was the most frequent symptom, halved for three out of four of the twenty women receiving acupuncture. This measures to a proportional drop of forty four percent for those in the traditionally treated group.

Seven of the women in each group took antacids. On average, the ones receiving acupuncture needed 6.3 fewer doses. Those receiving conventional treatment increased their intake by 4.4 doses, on average.

Once their treatment was finished, fifteen of the women receiving acupuncture reported that their diet had improved by fifty percent. In comparison, less than one in three reported that improvement in the other group.

[On the Road]

1. That Would Not be Surprising

Acupuncture is the most generally restorative treatment I have ever had. The theory is obviously pseudoscience, but it taps into some very real. It may not even be necessary to get the "correct" set of points for it to work.

[Peregrine]

2. Something is missing? The control!!!!

In every study where a control is used (faux acupuncture), acupuncture did no better than the faux treatment.

[Celebration]

3. not so

http://www.health24.com/news/Headache/1-1248,51365.asp

In a clinical trial involving patients with acute attacks of migraine, real acupuncture proved more effective than two different types of sham acupuncture in reducing the discomfort of acute migraine headache two and four hours after treatment, researchers from China report in the medical journal Headache.

Real acupuncture is also "clearly effective" in preventing migraine relapse and aggravation, report Dr Li Ying from the Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and colleagues.

Although acupuncture has been used for centuries to treat migraine, "convincing evidence of its efficacy in alleviating pain has been inadequate to date," the study team points out.

Ying and colleagues studied the effect of real versus sham acupuncture in 175 patients who were having one or more migraine attacks per month for at least one year.

[Why Syzygy]

4. Wow.

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