ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2020
Different Acupuncture Therapies for Allergic Rhinitis: Overview of Systematic Reviews and Network Meta-Analysis.
Review in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06858137 (Efficacy and Safety of Thread Embedding Acupuncture for Rhinitis Allergy), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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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.
Efficacy and Safety of Thread Embedding Acupuncture for Rhinitis Allergy: Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Non-pharmacological therapy for pediatric adenoid hypertrophy: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Pooled it
- Electroacupuncture as an eosinophil-targeting treatment in ovalbumin-induced allergic rhinitis involving βFrontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Ultrasound guided pulsed radiofrequency neuromodulation of sphenopalatine ganglion treatment for allergic rhinitis in childern: A case report.Clinical case reports · 2024Article
- Acupuncture for the Treatment of Chronic Rhinosinusitis: A PRISMA-Compliant Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022Review
- Efficacy of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Chronic Abdominal Pain.Anesthesiology and pain medicine · 2021Review
- Efficacy of Dry Needling and Acupuncture in the Treatment of Neck Pain.Anesthesiology and pain medicine · 2021Review
- Efficacy and Safety of Guizhi Decoction AssociatedFormulas for Allergic Rhinitis: A Systematic Review.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021Review
- A protocol of systematic review and meta-analysis of acupuncture for drug resistant epilepsy.Medicine · 2020Article
- Transcutaneous Electrical Acupoint Stimulation in Early Life Changes Synaptic Plasticity and Improves Symptoms in a Valproic Acid-Induced Rat Model of Autism.Neural plasticity · 2020Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the quality of methodologies used in previous systematic reviews (SRs) and compare efficacy of different acupuncture therapies for allergic rhinitis.
methodsSeven electronic databases were searched for systematic reviews (SRs) performed on different acupuncture therapies for allergic rhinitis from inception to 15 November 2019. The AMSTAR2 instrument was employed to assess the methodological quality of included SRs. Eligible randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were selected from the included systematic reviews. We also included recent RCTs published by 15 November 2019. Cochrane risk of bias tool was utilized to determine risk of bias of the included RCTs. Pairwise meta-analyses were performed using the random-effects model. Network meta-analysis of the included RCTs was carried out using frequentist framework.
resultsWe identified 2 SRs with low quality and 18 SRs with very low quality, both of which contained 33 eligible RCTs (
conclusionThese results indicate that for patients with allergic rhinitis who are unresponsive to conventional western medicine or cannot tolerate the side effects, acupuncture at the sphenopalatine ganglion acupoint is an effective alternative therapy. Further studies are advocated to deeply explore methodological quality of SRs by incorporating high-quality RCTs.
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