Recent CAM Research
Recent Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Synopses
Our monthly research synopses are part of our effort to share current complementary and alternative medicine research with practitioners and the general public. For the most part we try to choose studies which have direct clinical implications for practitioners and are relevant to the publics understanding of our medicine.
The research studies highlighted are drawn from a number of sources and are only a snapshot of what is available in medical journals worldwide. Our research synopses are included in our practitioner email newsletter which has open subscriptions (archives are also available).
In addition to our research synopses, our newsletter includes articles and other news from our premium practitioner members (open to all CAM practitioners).
Our most recent research synopses are below:
Acupuncture Research and News Feeds
- Effects of acupuncture on autonomic nervous function and prefrontal cortex activity.
- Traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: a general review.
- Ideas on Trial Design in Acupuncture for IBS.
- A Survey of Selected Physician Views on Acupuncture in Pain Management.
- Complementary acupuncture in Parkinson's disease: a spect study.
- [Influence of needle-pricking bleeding combined with pulling-rotating manipulation on blood rheology in patients with vertebral artery type cervical spondylosis]
- [Effect of electroacupuncture combined with Ginkgo biloba extract (GBE 50) on learning-memory ability and hippocampal cytokine levels in rats with dysmnesy]
- [Effects of electroacupuncture on long-term potentiation of synaptic transmission in spinal dorsal horn in rats with neuropathic pain]
- [Observation on the analgesic effect of heat-reinforcing needling manipulation for acute arthritis and the concomitant changes of beta-EP and PGE2 contents in the local joint tissue in rabbits]
- [Study on the mechanism of electroacupuncture of different acupoint groups in the treatment of cerebrocardiac syndrome in rats]
- [Effect of electroacupuncture on the behavior and hippocampal ultrastructure in APP 695 V 717 I transgenic mice]
- [Influence of electroacupuncture of meridian acupoints on the related hormones of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis in rats with cerebral ischemia reperfusion injury]
Herbal Medicine Research and News Feeds
- Flavonoids of the Genus Iris (Iridaceae).
- Chinese medicinal herb Scutellaria barbata modulates apoptosis and cell survival in murine and human prostate cancer cells and tumor development in TRAMP mice.
- [Effects of ginsenoside Rb1 on TGF-beta1 induced p47phox expression and extracellular matrix accumulation in rat renal tubular epethelial cells]
- [Effect of Astragalus mongholicus on expression of hepatocyte growth factor in SD rats with unilateral ureteral obstruction]
- [Effects of Chaiqin Chengqi Decoction on activation of nuclear factor-kappaB in pancreas of rats with acute necrotizing pancreatitis]
- [Protective effects of Chaiqin Chengqi Decoction on isolated pancreatic acinar cells in acute pancreatitis rats and the mechanisms]
- [A multiple center, randomized, controlled, double-blinded and double-dummy trial of Yiqing Shuangjie Capsule and Tablet in treating acute upper respiratory tract infection with the syndrome of heat attacking the lung and Weifen]
- A study on Fu-Yuan Pellet, a traditional chinese medicine formula for detoxification of heroin addictions.
- Effect of astragaloside IV on hepatic glucose-regulating enzymes in diabetic mice induced by a high-fat diet and streptozotocin.
Bodywork Research and News Feeds
- Ideas on Trial Design in Acupuncture for IBS.
- [Observation on the analgesic effect of heat-reinforcing needling manipulation for acute arthritis and the concomitant changes of beta-EP and PGE2 contents in the local joint tissue in rabbits]
- [Current status and prospect of acupuncture-moxibustion in treatment of cancer pain: a review]
- Acupuncture for primary dysmenorrhoea: a systematic review.


