Short-term Acupuncture Therapy Is of No Benefit in Patients With Moderate Persistent Asthma* -
MY Shapira, N Berkman, G Ben-David, A Avital, E … - Chest, 2002 - Am Coll Chest Phys
... considerable weight to this theory. Claims for the ability of acupuncture and herbal
medicine to influence the course and symptoms of bronchial asthma exist in ...

Efficacy of acupuncture in asthma: systematic review and meta-analysis of published data from 11 … -
J Martin, ANA Donaldson, R Villarroel, MKB Parmar, … - European Respiratory Journal, 2002 - Eur Respiratory Soc
... the results might indicate a modest effect of acupuncture in cases where the asthma
was provoked ... 23: it contributes negatively with a large weight in the ...

… the Effects of Real Versus Sham Acupuncture Compared to Controls in Patients with Bronchial Asthma -
TC Medici, E Grebski, J Wu, G Hinz, B Wuthrich - The Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, 2002 - liebertonline.com
... the three subgroups (ie,inpatients without a major changein asthma drugs) when baseline
value and body weight were taken ... acupuncture acupuncture group ...

Acupuncture in Asthma and Pulmonary Disease: An Analysis of Efficacy and Safety -
KA Jobst - The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 1996 - liebertonline.com
... Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Acupuncture in Asthma and Pulmonary Disease: An Analysis
of Efficacy and Safety ... Page 3. ACUPUNCTURE IN ASTHMA AND PULMONARY DISEASE 181 ...

Acupuncture for some common disorders: a review of evaluative research -
CA Vincent, PH Richardson - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 1987 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... the long-term effects of acupuncture on asthma would seem ... The trials of acupuncture
on psychiatric disorders have ... The studies on weight loss similarly do not ...

Systematic reviews of acupuncture?are there problems with these?
S Birch - Clinical Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine, 2001 - Elsevier
... recent BMA report concluded that acupuncture appears to ... ineffective for smoking
cessation and weight loss, that ... efficacy is doubtful for asthma, tinnitus and ...

[PDF] Systematic reviews of complementary therapies-an annotated bibliography. Part 1: Acupuncture -
K Linde, A Vickers, M Hondras, G ter Riet, J … - BMC Complement Altern Med, 2001 - biomedcentral.com
... rheumatic diseases, addiction, nausea and asthma (Continued) ... Systematic reviews of
acupuncture and acupressure for a ... trials on tinnitus and weight reduction do ...

Lack of effect of acupuncture upon signs and symptoms of delayed onset muscle soreness -
P Barlas, J Robinson, J Allen, GD Baxter - Clinical Physiology, 2000 - Blackwell Synergy
... of drugs, pregnancy, haemophilia, diabetes, asthma, weight-training, intense ...
pre-determined 1 RM weight to the ... four non-tender, non-acupuncture points, located ...

… on Acupuncture: Part 1. What Have Reviews of the Efficacy and Safety of Acupuncture Told Us So Far? -
S Birch, JK Hesselink, FAM Jonkman, TAM Hekker, A … - The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2004 - liebertonline.com
... such as chronic pain, neck pain, asthma, and drug ... For smoking cessation, tinnitus,
and weight loss the evidence ... events, they are rare and that acupuncture is a ...

Acupuncture: Theory, Efficacy, and Practice -
TJ Kaptchuk - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2002 - annals.highwire.org
... 47. Linde K, Jobst K, Panton J. Acupuncture for chronic asthma. Cochrane Database
Syst Rev. ... 49. Ernst E. Acupuncture/acupressure for weight reduction? ...