Acupuncture therapy: mechanism of action, efficacy, and safety: a potential intervention for psychogenic disorders?

Scientific bases for the mechanism of action of acupuncture in the treatment of pain and the pathogenic mechanism of acupuncture points are briefly summarized. The efficacy and safety of acupuncture therapy is discussed based on the results of German clinical trials. A conclusion on the role for acu...

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Autores principales: Kawakita, Kenji, Okada, Kaoru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24444292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0759-8-4
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spelling pubmed-39961952014-04-24 Acupuncture therapy: mechanism of action, efficacy, and safety: a potential intervention for psychogenic disorders? Kawakita, Kenji Okada, Kaoru Biopsychosoc Med Review Scientific bases for the mechanism of action of acupuncture in the treatment of pain and the pathogenic mechanism of acupuncture points are briefly summarized. The efficacy and safety of acupuncture therapy is discussed based on the results of German clinical trials. A conclusion on the role for acupuncture in the treatment of psychogenic disorders could not be reached. BioMed Central 2014-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3996195/ /pubmed/24444292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0759-8-4 Text en Copyright © 2014 Kawakita and Okada; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Acupuncture therapy: mechanism of action, efficacy, and safety: a potential intervention for psychogenic disorders?
title_full Acupuncture therapy: mechanism of action, efficacy, and safety: a potential intervention for psychogenic disorders?
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title_short Acupuncture therapy: mechanism of action, efficacy, and safety: a potential intervention for psychogenic disorders?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996195/
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