ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2014
The holistic effects of acupuncture treatment.
Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Acupuncture reduced incidence of insomnia symptoms in patients with lung cancer: a retrospective cohort study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
- Enhancing Endometrial Receptivity Assessment Outcomes in Recurrent Implantation Failure: Intralipid Infusion and Acupuncture as Complementary Therapies.Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences · 2025Article
- The State of 21st Century Acupuncture in the United States.Journal of pain research · 2024Article
- Patients' perceptions on non-specific effects of acupuncture: Qualitative comparison between responders and non-responders.Integrative medicine research · 2022Article
- The mechanism of electroacupuncture for depression on basic research: a systematic review.Chinese medicine · 2021Review
- Electroacupuncture Relieves Pain During Alcohol Withdrawal.Medical acupuncture · 2020Article
- Acupuncture on ST36, CV4 and KI1 Suppresses the Progression of Methionine- and Choline-Deficient Diet-Induced Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Mice.Metabolites · 2019Article
- Early filiform needle acupuncture for poststroke depression: a meta-analysis of 17 randomized controlled clinical trials.Neural regeneration research · 2014Article
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Abstract
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as a complex medical science which reflects philosophical principles and embodies large dialectical thought, is used to place the human body into a large system for observation. Acupuncture as a vital part of TCM, has been practiced to treat various diseases and symptoms. However, acupuncture is also facing severe challenges resulted from insufficient modern scientific research. Nowadays, the holistic effects of acupuncture can be researched by some modern approaches, such as the systems biology and fMRI technique. It is believed that having a better understand will greatly promote acupuncture research and be beneficial to scientization and modernization of acupuncture.
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