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ReviewJournal of pharmacopuncture2016

The History of Liquid Ear Acupuncture and the Current Scientific State of the Art.

Daniela Litscher, Gerhard Litscher

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Review in Journal of pharmacopuncture, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Traditional Acupuncture Meets Modern Nanotechnology: Opportunities and Perspectives.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2019
    Review
  3. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Daniela LitscherResearch Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Austria; Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, and TCM Research Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-1883-3521
Gerhard LitscherResearch Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Austria; Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, and TCM Research Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-6287-0130

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This short review article presents a current overview of existing publications and scientific results regarding liquid (ear) acupuncture. The injection of liquids into defined acupuncture points of the ear is not a method commonly used in the Western world. The term liquid acupuncture has different definitions, which makes understanding each definition and differentiating one from the other difficult. General terms like pharmacopuncture, homeosiniatry, and liquid acupuncture, which all describe the method of injecting different kinds of drugs into a defined body acupuncture point, are used. This article presents the history of liquid acupuncture, as well as the current scientific state of the art, from the point of view of two European researchers. Some articles are discussed and a few practical examples are presented.

Indexed as

acupunctureliquid acupunctureliquid ear acupuncturepharmacopuncture

Identifiers

PMID27386143
PMCPMC4931295

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