27 April 2008

Acupuncture

Another article that I read about anti-inflammatories discussed the benefits of acupuncture on different inflammatory diseases. I really liked this article because it went into pretty good detail about the different inflammatory diseases as well as the effect the acupuncture had on them. Their results showed that acupuncture mainly benefitted patients with asthma. The acupuncture also seemed to help with rhinitis after allergen provocation. Results seemed inconclusive for arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease. The article states that more studies need to be done in order to provide conclusive evidence but I thought it was still an interesting idea.

The full article can be seen here,
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1781596&blobtype=pdf

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