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The Holistic Effects of Acupuncture Treatment
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as a complex medical science which reflects philosophical principles and embodies large dialectical thought, is used to place the human body into a large system for observation. Acupuncture as a vital part of TCM, has been practiced to treat various diseases and s...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3913204/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24527051 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/739708 |
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author | Yang, Jing-Wen Li, Qian-Qian Li, Fang Fu, Qing-Nan Zeng, Xiang-Hong Liu, Cun-Zhi |
author_facet | Yang, Jing-Wen Li, Qian-Qian Li, Fang Fu, Qing-Nan Zeng, Xiang-Hong Liu, Cun-Zhi |
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description | Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as a complex medical science which reflects philosophical principles and embodies large dialectical thought, is used to place the human body into a large system for observation. Acupuncture as a vital part of TCM, has been practiced to treat various diseases and symptoms. However, acupuncture is also facing severe challenges resulted from insufficient modern scientific research. Nowadays, the holistic effects of acupuncture can be researched by some modern approaches, such as the systems biology and fMRI technique. It is believed that having a better understand will greatly promote acupuncture research and be beneficial to scientization and modernization of acupuncture. |
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spelling | pubmed-39132042014-02-13 The Holistic Effects of Acupuncture Treatment Yang, Jing-Wen Li, Qian-Qian Li, Fang Fu, Qing-Nan Zeng, Xiang-Hong Liu, Cun-Zhi Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Review Article Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as a complex medical science which reflects philosophical principles and embodies large dialectical thought, is used to place the human body into a large system for observation. Acupuncture as a vital part of TCM, has been practiced to treat various diseases and symptoms. However, acupuncture is also facing severe challenges resulted from insufficient modern scientific research. Nowadays, the holistic effects of acupuncture can be researched by some modern approaches, such as the systems biology and fMRI technique. It is believed that having a better understand will greatly promote acupuncture research and be beneficial to scientization and modernization of acupuncture. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3913204/ /pubmed/24527051 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/739708 Text en Copyright © 2014 Jing-Wen Yang et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Yang, Jing-Wen Li, Qian-Qian Li, Fang Fu, Qing-Nan Zeng, Xiang-Hong Liu, Cun-Zhi The Holistic Effects of Acupuncture Treatment |
title | The Holistic Effects of Acupuncture Treatment |
title_full | The Holistic Effects of Acupuncture Treatment |
title_fullStr | The Holistic Effects of Acupuncture Treatment |
title_full_unstemmed | The Holistic Effects of Acupuncture Treatment |
title_short | The Holistic Effects of Acupuncture Treatment |
title_sort | holistic effects of acupuncture treatment |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3913204/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24527051 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/739708 |
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