Efficacy, Mechanisms and Safety of Acupuncture

Clinical Efficacy, Mechanisms, and Safety 

of Acupuncture and Moxibustion

What are the important things for a medical system? Efficacy, mechanism and safety. It is these three things for any medicine.

For a grand view on clinical efficacy, mechanisms, and safety of acupuncture and moxibustion, Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine is publishing a special issue containing 38 papers on acupuncture and moxibustion: 14 describe the clinical effects of acupuncture; 15 describe the mechanisms of acupuncture; 3 concern the safety of acupuncture; 2 concern the clinical effects of acupressure; 2 detail clinical effects of moxibustion; and 2 describe the mechanisms of moxibustion. These 38 papers covers the following 20 subjects:

(1) pain

(2) the respiratory system

(3) microcirculation

(4) neurodegeneration

(5) the endocrine system

(6) gastric motility

(7) itch

(8) seizures

(9) neuroprotection

(10) opioid receptors

(11) diabetes mellitus

(12) public health issues of acupuncture

(13) the effects of acupuncture on infants

(14) adverse effects of acupuncture

(15) safe needling depth

(16) psychology during acupuncture

(17) acupressure and dysmenorrhea

(18) acupressure and sleep disturbance

(19) moxibustion and hyperlipidemia

(20) a discussion of the mechanisms and safety of moxibustion

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/osi/