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ReviewMedical acupuncture2024

Effect of

Poornima Ravi, Deenadayalan Boopalan, Venugopal Vijayakumar, Akila Anandhan, Mahesh Kannan Vanamoorthy, Yogapriya Chidambaram, Madhesh Kasi, Maheshkumar Kuppusamy

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Review in Medical acupuncture, 2024. 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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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.

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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

8 authors.

Poornima RaviDepartment of Clinical Research, Senior Research Fellow, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, India.
Deenadayalan BoopalanDepartment of Neurology, Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, India.
Venugopal VijayakumarDepartment of Yoga, Govt. Yoga & Naturopathy Medical College & Hospital, The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, India.
Akila AnandhanDepartment of Acupuncture & Energy Medicine, Govt. Yoga & Naturopathy Medical College & Hospital, The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, India.
Mahesh Kannan VanamoorthyDepartment of Acupuncture & Energy Medicine, Govt. Yoga & Naturopathy Medical College & Hospital, The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, India.
Yogapriya ChidambaramDepartment of Naturopathy, Govt. Yoga & Naturopathy Medical College & Hospital, The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, India.
Madhesh KasiDepartment of Yoga & Naturopathy, Govt. Yoga & Naturopathy Medical College & Hospital, The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, India.
Maheshkumar KuppusamyDepartment of Physiology, Govt. Yoga & Naturopathy Medical College & Hospital, The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5377-7847

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives: Available literature highlights the effectiveness of Acupuncture or Acupressure on the Spleen 6 acupoint ( Methods: We conducted a comprehensive literature search on various electronic databases including Embase, PubMed, and the Cochrane Library from January 1990 to March 2023 to identify the comparative studies (randomized and non-randomized controlled trials) that assessed the effects of acupressure or acupuncture on the Results: We included 19 studies (9 acupressure and 10 acupuncture) with 1171 PD patients. This meta-analysis showed a significant (Standardized Mean Difference, SMD: -0.29, 95% confidence interval -0.41 to -0.17, Conclusion: The findings of this updated systematic review and meta-analysis suggest that both acupuncture and acupressure on

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acupressureacupuncturedysmenorrheagynecological disorderssanyinjiaospleen meridiantraditional Chinese medicine

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PMID39309625
PMCPMC11411281

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