acupunture
Acupuncture: Traditional Medicine stung

Hundreds of clinical trials of acupuncture have been conducted on thousands of patients and on a variety of applications. But most often, they are subject to numerous methodological criticisms. However, various studies now seem to attribute therapeutic effects in treating nausea, vomiting or some analgesic.

Millennium therapeutic method, acupuncture is an integral part of traditional Chinese medicine. 6000 years old, it has spread from China to the whole Eurasian continent, in Africa and then to interest the West. The popularity of this ancient practice is based on two key assumptions.

Promising results have been highlighted in several directions: the treatment of nausea and vomiting after surgery and chemotherapy, the treatment of postoperative pain in adults and postoperative dental pain. Although most trials suffered from methodological problems (numbers too small, compared with placebo untreated, etc), the American jury has concluded favorably, believing instead that acupuncture could be useful in combination with other treatments or as an alternative treatment for the following: addiction, stroke, migraine, menstrual pain, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, arthritis, back pain or asthma.

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