Two Chinese acupuncture studies are published in the American Journal of Medicine

two acupuncture studies from China were published june 27 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. One study showed that acupuncture was effective in treating stressful urinary incontinence in women
, but another found that acupuncture did not cure infertility in women caused by polycystic ovary syndrome
.
stress urine incontinence refers to the phenomenon of involuntary urine outflow when sneezing or coughing, most commonly in middle-age women who have given birth. Liu Baoyan of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and others evaluated the effectiveness of electro-needle therapy in treating stressful urinary incontinence in women. Electric needle is a kind of acupuncture, refers to the needle after connecting a trace low-frequency current to treat a method.
researchers randomly divided 504 female patients into electric needle groups and fake needle groups for 18 treatments involving the lumbar palate over a six-week period, each lasting 30 minutes. Among them, the false electric needle group uses the false electric needle shallow puncture non-acuity point, will not pierce the skin. In the end, 482 people completed a controlled study. The results showed that urinary incontinence in the electric needle group improved compared to the other group, and the efficacy continued until 24 weeks after treatment.
polycystic ovary syndrome is a common cause of infertility in women, affecting 5% to 10% of women of childbearing age. Cromifen is a cheap first-line drug that induces ovulation in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome.
Through group therapy of 1,000 patients with polycystic ovary syndrome, researchers at Heilongjiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China found that women taking cromifen had significantly higher rates of babies than women taking placebos, but there was no significant difference between women receiving acupuncture and women receiving fake acupuncture, so "this finding does not support acupuncture as an infertility therapy for such women."
The studies reveal when or when to consider using acupuncture, but the reasons and processes for the treatment's role require further study," two experts at the U.S. National Institutes of Health said in a commentary. It is clear that these ancient treatments are helping us to recognize the complex relationships of the role of the mind and body. Li
Yongming, a former president of the Chinese Medicine Acupuncture Society in Greater New York and an acupuncturist, commented that it is very meaningful for the world-class medical journal to publish Chinese acupuncture research, reflecting the progress of Chinese medicine research in recent years. Acupuncture research articles published over the years in the Journal of the American Medical Association have questioned more than yes, and this one-yin-one-yang article is encouraging, suggesting that rigorous scientific methods have been used to prove the clinical efficacy of acupuncture. (Source: Xinhua News Agency, Lin Xiaochun)