More on moxibustion. (News & Notes).A randomized clinical trial randomized clinical trial, n a clinical study where volunteer participants with comparable characteristics are randomly assigned to different test groups to compare the efficacy of therapies. in the Women's Hospital Women's Hospital of Greensboro (part of Moses Cone Health System) As the state's first free-standing hospital dedicated to women, the Women's Hospital of Greensboro is a 134-bed hospital is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art, compassionate and personalized care to women of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, and Jiujiang Women's and Children's Hospital in the People's Republic of China studied the effect of traditional Chinese moxibustion moxibustion /mox·i·bus·tion/ (mok?si-bus´chun) the stimulation of an acupoint by the burning of a cone or cylinder of moxa placed at or near the point. mox·i·bus·tion n. treatment of acupoint acupoint /acu·point/ (ak´u-point) any of the specific sites for needle insertion in acupuncture; also used in other therapies, including acupressure and moxibustion. Most are areas of high electrical conductance on the body surface. BL 67 to promote version of breech breech (brech) the buttocks. breech n. The lower rear portion of the human trunk; the buttocks. breech, britch the buttocks of an animal; the backs of the thighs. babies. (Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese medical practice that involves the burning of herbs to stimulate acupuncture points.) The study, which included 260 primagravidas with breech presentations at thirty-two weeks, either performed moxibustion on the moms or gave them no treatment. The moxibustion intensity was just below the individual tolerability threshold. The intervention group was divided into two. One group performed moxibustion once a day for fifteen minutes on each side; the other group performed moxibustion for the same length of time but twice a day. By the end of two weeks, 72.4 percent of the women in the once-daily treatment group and 81.4 percent in the twice-daffy treatment group had vertex (head-down) babies. There were 47.7 percent vertex presentations in the control group. --JAMA, Vol. 280, No. 18 |
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