Effects of acupuncture in postmenopausal women with prehypertension or stage 1 hypertension: study protocol for a prospective, comparative, interventional cohort study
This study is designed as an intervention cohort study. Two hundred postmenopausal women aged <65 years with prehypertension or stage 1 hypertension living in Daejeon city in Korea will be recruited, and randomly assigned to either an acupuncture or no-treatment control group. The intervention will consist of four sessions; one session will include acupuncture performed 10 times for 4 weeks. There will be a 20-week observation period after each session, and the total study duration will be 96 weeks. Acupuncture will be applied at the bilateral Fengchi (GB20), Quchi (LI11), Zusanli (ST36), and Sameumgyo (SP6) acupoints....
Source: Integrative Medicine Research - July 10, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Influences of Pinpoint Plantar Long-Wavelength Infrared Light Irradiation (Stress-Free Therapy) on Chorioretinal Hemodynamics, Atherosclerosis Factors, and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
ConclusionSFT was suggested to enhance chorioretinal circulation and to normalize VEGF, thereby possibly contributing to amelioration of atherosclerosis-inducing factors. Abnormalities in chorioretinal hemodynamics are known to be highly involved in the pathophysiology of diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration, and anti-VEGF antibody has been used for treating these conditions. The necessity of risk management, involving chorioretinal blood flow, has been pointed out when dealing with central retinal vein occlusion, diabetes mellitus, ischemic cerebral/cardiac disease, dementia and so on. SFT is therefor...
Source: Integrative Medicine Research - July 10, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Corrigendum to “Physiological indices for the categorization of Mibyeong severity” [Integr. Med. Res. 2017; 6: 88-92]
Publication date: March 2018Source: Integrative Medicine Research, Volume 7, Issue 1Author(s): Kyung Eun Lee, Joong Jae Kim, Hee-Jeong Jin, Siwoo Lee, Eun Bo Shim (Source: Integrative Medicine Research)
Source: Integrative Medicine Research - July 10, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Trends in deqi research: a text mining and network analysis
Publication date: Available online 8 March 2018Source: Integrative Medicine ResearchAuthor(s): O Sang Kwon, Junbeom Kim, Kwang-Ho Choi, Yeonhee Ryu, Ji-Eun ParkAbstractDeqi is a term describing a special state of the human body, which is ready to cure itself through acupuncture stimulation and is believed to be a key factor in acupuncture treatment. However, knowledge about deqi remains subjective. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to determine the factors related to deqi generation based on present studies to promote the progression of deqi research.A term frequency–inverse document frequency (Tf-idf) was used to extra...
Source: Integrative Medicine Research - July 10, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Advances in automated tongue diagnosis techniques
Publication date: Available online 8 March 2018Source: Integrative Medicine ResearchAuthor(s): Marzia Hoque Tania, Khin Lwin, Mohammed Alamgir HossainAbstractThis paper reviews the recent advances in a significant constituent of traditional oriental medicinal technology, called tongue diagnosis. Tongue diagnosis can be an effective, noninvasive method to perform an auxiliary diagnosis any time anywhere, which can support the global need in the primary healthcare system. This work explores the literature to evaluate the works done on the various aspects of computerized tongue diagnosis, namely preprocessing, tongue detectio...
Source: Integrative Medicine Research - July 10, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
