Do Japanese style acupuncture and moxibustion reduce symptoms of the common cold?

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 481-489

  Kawakita, Kenji ^a,b   Shichidou, Toshiyuki ^a   Inoue, Etsuko ^a   Nabeta, Tomoyuki ^a   Kitakoji, Hiroshi ^a   Aizawa, Shigekatsu ^a   Nishida, Atsushi ^a   Yamaguchi, Nobuo ^a   Takahashi, Norihito ^a   Sumiya, Eiji ^a   Okada, Kaoru ^a   Umeda, Takashi ^a   Yano, Tadashi ^a   Tanzawa, Shouhachi ^a  

^a Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (JSAM)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Common cold symptoms; Japanese style; Moxibustion; Multi center RCTs

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CD14 ANTIGEN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD2 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ACUPRESSURE; ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HUMAN; JAPAN; LICENSING; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MOXIBUSTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROAT; TRAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URTICARIA;

EID: 56749163585     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nem055     Document Type: Article

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