ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2012
A review of acupoint specificity research in china: status quo and prospects.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Acupuncture as prophylaxis for chronic migraine: a protocol for a single-blinded, double-dummy randomised controlled trial.BMJ open · 2018Trial
- Study protocol for a single-blind, placebo-controlled randomised trial of Tianjiu effects in patients with intradialytic hypotension.BMJ open · 2016Trial
- Electroacupuncture stimulation at sub-specific acupoint and non-acupoint induced distinct brain glucose metabolism change in migraineurs: a PET-CT study.Journal of translational medicine · 2014Trial
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- Song's Mast Cell Theory of Acupuncture.Medical acupuncture · 2022Article
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- Acupuncture as an adjunctive therapy for arrhythmia: a Delphi expert consensus survey.Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy · 2021Article
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Abstract
The theory of acupoint specificity is the basis for elucidating the actions of acupoints as employed in clinical practice. Acupoint specificity has become a focus of attention in international research efforts by scholars in the areas of acupuncture and moxibustion. In 2006, the Chinese Ministry of Science approved and initiated the National Basic Research Program (973 Program), one area of which was entitled Basic Research on Acupoint Specificity Based on Clinical Efficacy. Using such approaches as data mining, evidence-based medicine, clinical epidemiology, neuroimaging, molecular biology, neurophysiology, and metabolomics, fruitful research has been conducted in the form of literature research, clinical assessments, and biological studies. Acupoint specificity has been proved to exist, and it features meridian-propagated, relative, persistent, and conditional effects. Preliminarily investigations have been made into the biological basis for acupoint specificity.
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