Study of scientific research on acupuncture and traditional medicine

Abstract

Over the last 15 years 40 dissertations on traditional medicine, in particular – on reflexology, were presented in the Dissertation Council at the Russian Scientific Center “Medical rehabilitation and balneology". Among them, 11 works were on competition of a scientific degree of the doctor of Sciences and 31 – scientific degree of the candidate of Sciences.
 Thesis presentation in chronological order is as follows: in 2001 – 4 works; in 2003 – 7 ; in 2004 – 6; in 2005 – 3; in 2006 – 2; in 2007 – 1; in 2008 – 6; in 2009 – 5; in 2010 – 1; in 2011 – 3; in 2012 – 1; in 2013 – 1 and, finally, in 2014 – 2. Thus, there has been some reduction in the number of works, and, possibly, the decline of interest in the problem itself. With a certain degree of conventionality, the authors have divided the thesis into blocks "Fundamental research", "New technologies", "Traditional medicine in diseases of the nervous system and internistiche pathology", etc. It should be recognized that all dissertations were defended, but are not of equal quality. The authors note that in each block there are works devoted to the important issue - the combina-tion of acupuncture and homeopathy, including pharmacopuncture. 
 The presented studies were discussed adequately, emitting positions "contingent", "methods", "general provisions".