Effects of acupuncture on arrhythmia and other cardiac diseases

Acupuncture Therapy for Neurological Diseases: A Neurobiological View

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 263-288

  Kang, Xuezhi ^a   Xia, Ying ^a,b  

^a Shanghai Research Center for Acupuncture and Meridians   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture therapy; Arrhythmia; Cardiac diseases; Correction; Mechanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885821374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10857-0_10     Document Type: Chapter

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