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The participants who received the real acupuncture treatments with their antihistamines showed a greater improvement in their allergy symptoms and less use of antihistamines compared to the other groups.
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Pet owners are able to choose from a rapidly growing array of policies, featuring everything from high-deductible designs to coverage of alternative-medicine treatments like acupuncture.
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They must inhabit an alternate reality, where magical forces flow through and around the body, and magical, pseudoscientific treatments like acupuncture, healing touch, magnet therapy, and homeopathy somehow really work.
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His idea was to create high-end stores offering acupuncture, massage and herbal treatments and products to Western consumers.
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More drugs are in clinical trials, and non-drug treatments such as acupuncture, massage, biofeedback and transcranial-magnetic stimulation are also showing some promise at alleviating migraine pain.
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But the committee's analysis of other innovative treatments, including yoga, acupuncture and animal-assisted therapy, is hampered by a lack of evidence on their effectiveness.
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My favorite of his experiments compared waiting, fake acupuncture, and fake acupuncture with warm, caring talk from the physician as treatments for irritable bowel syndrome.
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But if the treatments are providing some type of relief, then acupuncture's potential role in treating allergies should be investigated further, the authors say.
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"The finding here suggests acupuncture may be useful as a complementary therapy for people who are already on standard treatments, but not getting full relief, " he told the BBC News website.
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Nineteen controls received two treatments, four weeks apart, of dry-needling, which involved inserting an acupuncture needle into rotator-cuff tissue to stimulate healing.
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Believers in acupuncture, naturopathy, Reiki, and homeopathy will argue that they are not unethical, because the treatments work.
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