ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2013
Effect of siguan acupuncture on gastrointestinal motility: a randomized, sham-controlled, crossover trial.
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- Pooled it
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- Clinical Study on the Combination of Transcutaneous Electrical Acupoint Stimulation and Lidocaine for Preventing Propofol Injection Pain.Journal of pain research · 2022Trial
- Intestinal Flora Reconfiguration via Electroacupuncture: A Strategy to Counteract Depressive-Like Symptoms in Rats.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2026Article
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- Acupuncture at Gastric Back-Shu and Front-Mu Acupoints Enhances Gastric Motility via the Inhibition of the Glutamatergic System in the Hippocampus.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020Article
- Electroacupuncture Improves Gastric Emptying in Critically Ill Neurosurgical Patients: A Pilot Study.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2017Article
- Acupuncture and regulation of gastrointestinal function.World journal of gastroenterology · 2015Review
- An alternative to current therapies of functional dyspepsia: self-administrated transcutaneous electroacupuncture improves dyspeptic symptoms.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2014Article
- An FMRI study of neuronal specificity in acupuncture: the multiacupoint siguan and its sham point.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2014Article
- Complementary and alternative medicine for diseases and disorders in digestive tract: basic to clinics.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2013Article
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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Siguan acupoints have been used to treat gastrointestinal symptoms in acupuncture practices for a long time. This study aimed to investigate the effects of Siguan acupuncture on gastrointestinal motility under accelerated conditions using a randomized, sham-acupuncture-controlled, crossover study. Twenty-one healthy male subjects were hospitalized and randomized into either a real acupuncture group (at Siguan acupoints) or a sham acupuncture group. Subjects were administered with mosapride citrate (15 mg a day) for 2 days starting 24 hours before the first acupuncture treatment. Immediately after the administration of radio markers, acupuncture treatment was conducted 4 times at 12-hour intervals. Gastrointestinal motility was assessed using radiograph distribution of the radio-markers located in the small intestine, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, rectum, and outside the body immediately after the first acupuncture treatment and at 6, 12, 24, and 48 hours. After a 2-week washout period, the real acupuncture group in the first session was treated with sham acupuncture in the second session, and vice versa. Gastrointestinal motility was generally reduced in the real acupuncture group compared with the sham acupuncture group throughout the 4 different time points. A significant difference was observed at 24 hours following the first acupuncture treatment (P < 0.05).
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