Observations on the efficacy of mind-calming and brain-refreshing acupuncture and moxibustion for treating 42 anxiety patients

Gao, Liping; Yong, Zhou

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“…A total of 459 articles related to Chinese and English were retrieved by computer and manual retrieval, including 168 articles on CNKI, 158 articles on Wanfang data, 70 articles on VIP and 63 articles on Pubmed. After reading the title, abstract and full text of the research literature, screening according to the research purpose, inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria, 19 RCT literatures were finally decided to be included [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. The specific retrieval process is shown in Figure 1.…”

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“…After evaluating the methodological quality of the 19 references [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] included, it was found that there is a high quality [14] and the rest were of low quality. All the literatures are RCTS and mention the use of random methods for grouping, but the random methods are not described in detail.…”

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“…In the 19 articles [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] included, a total of 1,493 patients were included, including 772 patients in the acupuncture group and 721 patients in the Western medicine group. Among them, 14 literatures [4-9, 11-12, 14-16, 21-22] reported the control of Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA) before and after treatment,9 literatures [6-7, 10-13, 15-16, 21] reported the changes of anxiety Self-rating Scale (SAS), and 16 literatures [4-7, 9-16, 18-20, 22] reported the effective rate of treatment.…”

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Acupuncture for General Anxiety Disorders: A Meta-Analysis

Li¹,

Peng²,

Du³

2021

IJCEMR

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Objective: To systematically evaluate the clinical efficacy of acupuncture for general anxiety disorders by using evidence-based medicine. Methods: Online databases such as CNKI, VIP, Wanfang and PubMed were searched by computer, and references of randomized controlled trials (RCTS) of acupuncture therapy for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) were screened out. The retrieval time was from the establishment of the database to December 2020. The RevMan 5.3 software was used for Meta analysis of Hamilton Anxiety scale (HAMA), Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), total clinical effectiveness and adverse reactions in included randomized controlled trial (RCTS) literature. Results: A total of 19 RCTS were included in this meta-analysis, involving 1,493 patients, including 772 in the acupuncture group and 721 in the western medicine group. The Meta-analysis results showed that the effective rate of acupuncture treatment of GAD patients was better than that of western medicine group [RR=1.06, 95%CI (1.02, 1.10), P=0.003], and the adverse reactions were significantly lower than that of western medicine group [RR=0.25, 95%CI (0.11, 0.53), P=0.0004]. However, there was no significant difference in HAMA [MD=-0.71, 95%CI (-2.25, 0.83), P=0.37] and SAS [MD=-0.64, 95%Cl (-2.52, 1.24), P=0.51] of GAD patients after treatment in outcome indicators. Conclusion: Acupuncture is better than western medicine in treating generalized anxiety disorder. However, the evidence of efficacy is limited and more high-quality, big-data, multicenter RCT literature is needed for further study.

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Acupuncture for General Anxiety Disorders: A Meta-Analysis

Li¹,

Peng²,

Du³

2021

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Acupuncture for Anxiety

Errington‐Evans

2011

CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics

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SUMMARYThis review aims to examine the volume and quality of the evidence base which supports the use of acupuncture in the treatment of anxiety disorders. A literature review was conducted using Pubmed, Google scholar, AMED, BMJ, Embase, Psychinfo, Cochrane library, Ingenta connect, and Cinahl databases. Keywords were "anxiety," "anxious," "panic," "stress," "phobia," and "acupuncture" limited to year 2000 onwards and English language where available. The quality of research examining the use of acupuncture in the treatment of anxiety disorders is extremely variable. There is enormous variety regarding points used, number of points used in a session, duration of sessions, frequency of treatment and duration of treatment programme. While the generally poor methodological quality, combined with the wide range of outcome measures used, number and variety of points, frequency of sessions, and duration of treatment makes firm conclusions difficult. Against this, the volume of literature, consistency of statistically significant results, wide range of conditions treated and use of animal test subjects suggests very real, positive outcomes using a treatment method preferred by a population of individuals who tend to be resistant to conventional medicine.

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Observations on the efficacy of mind-calming and brain-refreshing acupuncture and moxibustion for treating 42 anxiety patients

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