Auricular acupuncture and acute migraine
Ear acupuncture in the treatment of migraine attacks: a randomized trial on the efficacy of appropriate versus inappropriate acupoints. Neurol Sci. 2011 May;32 Suppl 1:S173-5. Another Italian study backs up the therapeutic specificity of auricular acupuncture points used in migraine treatment. Ninety-four female migraineurs were treated during an attack. They were randomly subdivided into two …
Acupuncture and Migraine
Efficacy of acupuncture for migraine prophylaxis: A single-blinded, double-dummy, randomized controlled trial. Pain. 2011 Aug;152(8):1864-71. A Chinese multi-centre trial has found that acupuncture is as good as the drug flunarizine at reducing pain and improving quality of life for migraineurs, and more effective than the drug at decreasing the number days on which patients experience …
Acupuncture and chronic headache
Acupuncture and chronic headache Complementary Therapies in Medicine (2004) 12, 71-78 A German study compared the number of days of moderate headache experienced by two groups of chronic headache sufferers, one after 4 weeks of Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture treatment at a Chinese medicine hospital in Kotzting, Germany, and the other assigned to a …
Acupuncture and headache
Neurological Science. 2011 May;32 Suppl 1:S15-8. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has two diagnostic frameworks for headaches: meridian diagnoses, based on the location of the pain and on the meridians (or channels) that pass through it; syndrome diagnoses, dependent on external or internal factors and on the characteristics of the pain. The four meridians involved in …