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A team of researchers from China publishing in the Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion journal recently conducted a study exploring treatment for chronic urticaria (or what is more commonly known as hives). Researchers recruited 160 patients and randomly divided them in an acupuncture bloodlettin…

ALS or "Lou Gehrig's Disease" is a quickly debilitating and near exclusively fatal neuro-degenerative disease with no known cure.  Chinese Medicine including herbal medicine, acupuncture, Tong Ren Therapy, Tuina and other aspects has been used to help slow the progression of the disease, but has of…

Researchers from Fangshan Hospital in Beijing recently conducted a randomized controlled study of 60 cases of ordinary psoriasis.  The subjects were evenly split into a standard western medicine group and a acupuncture with moxibustion group. Within the western medicine group the drug Acitretin…