Auricular acupuncture with seed or pellet attachments for primary insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lan, Ying ^a   Wu, Xi ^a   Tan, Hui Juan ^a   Wu, Nan ^a   Xing, Jing Jing ^b   Wu, Fu Sheng ^a   Zhang, Lei Xiao ^c   Liang, Fan Rong ^a  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b FIRST TEACHING HOSPITAL OF TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^c Clinical Medicine Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Auricular acupuncture; GRADE; Insomnia; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; DRUG IMPLANT;

ACTIMETRY; ACUPUNCTURE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AURICULAR ACUPUNCTURE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DISEASE DURATION; DIZZINESS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; PRIMARY INSOMNIA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLEEP EFFICIENCY; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THIRST; DRUG IMPLANT; PLANT SEED; PROCEDURES; SLEEP; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

ACUPUNCTURE, EAR; DRUG IMPLANTS; HUMANS; SEEDS; SLEEP; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 84929145728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12906-015-0606-7     Document Type: Article

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