Comments on: Is it acupuncture or is it ECT?

By: lambic

lambic — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:35:02 +0000

Several studies have been done on acupuncture.

Yes, and none of the well performed ones have found anything beyond placebo.

Here’s another one proving / showing the existence of meridians

Hmm, it’s a bit of a leap to go from finding tiny threadlike structures to calling them meridians.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:40:25 +0000

Several studies have been done on acupuncture.

Here’s another one proving / showing the existence of meridians, the places where acupuncturists place needles.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1810370

By: rob

rob — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:18:58 +0000

acupuncture works, no doubt, for anything

By: J. Schmidt

J. Schmidt — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:29:43 +0000

further scientific information about acupuncture:
http://www.gerac.de, site language german, english

By: lambic

lambic — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:44:19 +0000

I had a quick look around, and Wikipedia had the best summary of acupuncture research:

The jury is still out on the effectiveness of acupuncture, with existing evidence slightly favouring the proposition that it can be effective in some cases for some conditions. However, almost all the research on the effectiveness of acupuncture is of poor quality and can be criticised on various grounds. Much more research (of a much higher quality) needs to be done before the effectiveness of acupuncture is generally accepted within the medical community.

By: lambic

lambic — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:37:06 +0000

As far as I know there is no concrete evidence of the efficacy of acupuncture, but I’m not an expert so I’d be happy to be proved wrong. I know a three year study back in the 90s found it to be no better than a placebo.

That wasn’t the point of this post though. The study I’m questioning claimed to show the efficacy of acupuncture when in fact it did no such thing. If there is any evidence that acupuncture has some beneficial value, this study wasn’t it.

By: carismo

carismo — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:00:32 +0000

…but I thought that acupuncture is virtually the only alternative medicine that *does* have some evidence to back up its efficacy. Though, on the other hand, there is also the case of St. John’s Wort, which, in Germany has been prescribed by MD’s as a firstline of defence for depression, ahead of prozac(!), for a good ten years now…