Acupuncture Reduces Nausea and Vomiting, Pain After Major Breast Surgery.

AScribe Health News Service, September, 2004

Byline: Duke University

DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the first such clinical trial of its kind, researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found that acupuncture is more effective at reducing nausea and vomiting after major breast surgery than the leading medication.

The researchers also found that patients who underwent the 5,000-year-old Chinese practice reported decreased postoperative pain and increased satisfaction with their postoperative recovery. In conducting the trial, the researchers also demonstrated that the pressure point they stimulated possesses previously unknown pain-killing properties.

Results of the Duke study were published Sept. 22, 2004, in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia.

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