ArticleDigestive diseases and sciences2006
Electroacupuncture accelerates solid gastric emptying and improves dyspeptic symptoms in patients with functional dyspepsia.
Article in Digestive diseases and sciences, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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
48 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 112 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy and safety of acupuncture for functional dyspepsia: an updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Acupuncture as an Add-On Treatment for Functional Dyspepsia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Acupuncture for functional dyspepsia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of acupuncture for relieving non-organic dyspeptic symptoms suggestive of diabetic gastroparesis.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2013Pooled it
- Bilateral posterior tibial nerve stimulation as a neuromodulation strategy for obstructed defecation: a randomized controlled trial.Techniques in coloproctology · 2025Trial
- The participation of basolateral amygdala in the efficacy of acupuncture with deqi treating for functional dyspepsia.Brain imaging and behavior · 2021Trial
- Ameliorating Effects of Transcutaneous Electrical Acustimulation Combined With Deep Breathing Training on Refractory Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Mediated via the Autonomic Pathway.Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society · 2019Trial
- Electroacupuncture at ST-36 Protects Interstitial Cells of Cajal via Sustaining Heme Oxygenase-1 Positive M2 Macrophages in the Stomach of Diabetic Mice.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2018Trial
- Trial
- Dalitong granule combined with electroacupuncture in the treatment of functional dyspepsia: A randomized controlled trial.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2015Trial
- Effects and possible mechanisms of acupuncture at ST36 on upper and lower abdominal symptoms induced by rectal distension in healthy volunteers.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2012Trial
- Influences of transcutaneous neuromodulation on fecal microbiota and short chain fatty acids in patients with functional constipation.BMC gastroenterology · 2026Article
- Electroacupuncture alleviates functional dyspepsia by modulating the vagus nerve to regulate duodenal microbiota and suppress TWEAK/Fn14/NF-κB and arachidonic acid metabolic pathways.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Electroceuticals and Magnetoceuticals in Gastroenterology.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- Clinical application of electroacupuncture in enhanced recovery after surgery.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2023Review
- A Breakthrough Point in Integrative Medical Research: Challenge of Treating Overlapping Symptoms in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2022Article
- Article
- Neural Responses of Acupuncture for Treating Functional Dyspepsia: An fMRI Study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Effects of electroacupuncture on stress-induced gastric dysrhythmia and mechanisms involving autonomic and central nervous systems in functional dyspepsia.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2020Article
- Effect of Electroacupuncture on Postoperative Gastrointestinal Recovery in Patients Undergoing Thoracoscopic Surgery: A Feasibility Study.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The aims of this study were to investigate the effects of electroacupuncture (EA) at ST36 and PC6 points on solid gastric emptying and dyspeptic symptoms in patients with functional dyspepsia. Nineteen patients with functional dyspepsia (FD) were involved in the study, consisting of two parts: (1) acute effects of EA on solid gastric emptying in FD patients with delayed gastric emptying and (2) short-term (2-week) effects of EA on symptoms in FD patients with normal gastric emptying. Results were as follows. (1) Ten of the19 patients showed delayed gastric emptying of solids, and acute EA significantly improved delayed gastric emptying; the halftime for gastric emptying was reduced from 150.3+/-48.4 to 118.9+/-29.6 min (P=0.007). (2) In the nine patients with normal gastric emptying, 2-week EA significantly decreased the symptom score, from 8.2+/-3.3 at baseline to 1.6+/-1.1 (P < 0.001) at the end of treatment. We conclude that EA at the ST36 and PC6 points accelerates solid gastric emptying in FD patients with delayed gastric emptying and relieves dyspeptic symptoms in FD patients with normal gastric emptying.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.