These studies give hope! -Read about how acupuncture and herbal medicine can help regulate your digestive issues.
Randomized controlled trial: Moxibustion and acupuncture for the treatment of Crohn’s disease.1
“After 12 weeks of treatment, 74% of patients in the treatment (acupuncture) group and 36% of patients in the control group entered remission.”
Effectiveness of acupuncture to treat irritable bowel syndrome: A meta-analysis2
“Acupuncture exhibits clinically and statistically significant control of IBS symptoms.”
Acupuncture for nausea and vomiting: An update of clinical and experimental studies3
“There is good clinical evidence from more than 40 randomised controlled trials that acupuncture-point stimulation at P6 has some effect in preventing … nausea and vomiting.”
- Bao CH, Zhao JM, Liu HR, Lu Y, Zhu YF, Shi Y, Weng ZJ, Feng H, Guan X, Li J, Chen WF, Wu LY, Jin XM, Dou CZ, Wu HG. Randomized controlled trial: moxibustion and acupuncture for the treatment of Crohn’s disease. World J Gastroenterol. 2014 Aug 21;20(31):11000-11. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i31.11000. PMID: 25152604; PMCID: PMC4138481. ↩︎
- Chao GQ, Zhang S. Effectiveness of acupuncture to treat irritable bowel syndrome: a meta-analysis. World J Gastroenterol. 2014 Feb 21;20(7):1871-7. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i7.1871. PMID: 24587665; PMCID: PMC3930986. ↩︎
- Konrad Streitberger, Jeanette Ezzo, Antonius Schneider,
Acupuncture for nausea and vomiting: An update of clinical and experimental studies,
Autonomic Neuroscience,Volume 129, Issues 1–2,2006, Pages 107-117, ISSN 1566-0702, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2006.07.015. ↩︎