ABC of complementary medicine. Acupuncture.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Acupuncture for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in neonates.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024
   Pooled it
2. Do the effects of acupuncture vary between acupuncturists? Analysis of the Acupuncture Trialists' Collaboration individual patient data meta-analysis.Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society · 2021
   Pooled it
3. Acupuncture for Rehabilitation After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Frontiers in medicine · 2020
   Pooled it
4. Acupuncture for acute postoperative pain after back surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain · 2015
   Pooled it
5. A systematic review and meta-analysis of Baihui (GV20)-based scalp acupuncture in experimental ischemic stroke.Scientific reports · 2014
   Pooled it
6. Acupuncture and assisted reproductive technology.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013
   Pooled it
7. Acupuncture for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in neonates.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013
   Pooled it
8. The effectiveness of acupuncture in treating chronic non-specific low back pain: a systematic review of the literature.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2012
   Pooled it
9. Acupuncture for insomnia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012
   Pooled it
10. Acupuncture treatment for pain: systematic review of randomised clinical trials with acupuncture, placebo acupuncture, and no acupuncture groups.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2009
    Pooled it
11. Randomized controlled trial testing weight loss and abdominal obesity outcomes of moxibustion.Biomedical engineering online · 2018
    Trial
12. Reduction in postpartum weight with laser acupuncture: A randomized control trial.Medicine · 2016
    Trial
13. Exploring the process of making health behaviour changes in traditional acupuncture: a longitudinal qualitative study.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2026
    Article
14. Brain TRPV1 channel-mediated calcium influx: the immunomodulatory pathway of acupuncture in neuroinflammation.Frontiers in immunology · 2025
    Review
15. Feasibility of electroacupuncture at Baihui (GV20) and Zusanli (ST36) on survival with a favorable neurological outcome in patients with postcardiac arrest syndrome after in-hospital cardiac arrest: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2023
    Article
16. Effect of acupuncture therapy combined with fluticasone propionate in the treatment of persistent allergic rhinitis: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Trials · 2022
    Article
17. Efficacy and Safety of Moxibustion for Menopausal Obesity: A Multicentre, Randomized, Controlled Trial Protocol.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022
    Article
18. Comparative Effectiveness of Pediatric Integrative Medicine: A Pragmatic Cluster-Controlled Trial.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
    Article
19. Moxibustion combined with characteristic lifestyle intervention of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the treatment of abdominal obesity: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Medicine · 2020
    Article
20. A critical examination of the main premises of Traditional Chinese Medicine.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2020
    Review

Corrections and comments

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  Acupuncture may be associated with serious adverse events.2000

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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