Acupuncture for nausea and vomiting: An update of clinical and experimental studies

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 129, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 107-117

  Streitberger, Konrad ^a   Ezzo, Jeanette ^b   Schneider, Antonius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b JPS Enterprises   (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Nausea and vomiting

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ACUPRESSURE; ACUPUNCTURE; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MYOELECTRICITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STIMULATION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VOMITING;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; VOMITING;

EID: 33749157808     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2006.07.015     Document Type: Review

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