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Journal of Nutrition and Human Health | Volume 2
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October 29-30, 2018 | London, UK
Joint Event
Nutrition and Fitness
16th International Conference on 3rd World Congress on
Card i o l ogy
Acupuncture plus moving cupping therapy for Insomnia in cardiovascular diseases: A systematic
review and meta-analysis
Guang Chen
China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, China
Background: Insomnia is a very common health issue among
populationsofcardiovasculardiseases.MovingCuppingTherapy
is akindof TCMexternal therapieswildlyused to treat insomnia
and it could increase the effectiveness of acupuncture.
Objective: Thepurposeof this reviewis toassess theeffectiveness
andsafetyof Acupunctureandmoving cupping combined therapy
for patients with Insomnia in cardiovascular diseases.
Methods: We searched the following databases: MEDLINE,
EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, China National Knowledge
Infrastructure (CNKI), Wan Fang database, and the Chinese
Scientific Journal Database (VIP). Parallel randomizedcontrolled
trialsonacupunctureplusmovingcupping therapy for insomnia
were included. A meta-analysis was conducted following the
recommendations in the Cochrane Handbook of Systematic
Reviews of Interventions.
Results: We included11 trials involving866patients. Thequality
of the included studies was generally poor. The results of the
meta-analysis showed that the effective rate after treatment of
manual acupuncture plusmoving cuppingwas higher than that
afterwesternmedicinetreatmentonlyandmanualacupuncture
theother hand, one trial reportedmanual acupuncture
plus moving cupping was superior to western medicine in
improving the PSQI scores. Another trial favored manual
acupuncture plus moving cupping over manual acupuncture
alone also in improving the PSQI scores.
Conclusions: There appears to be some benefit from the use
ofmanual acupunctureplusmoving cupping. However, due to
poor methodological quality, we could not draw confirmative
conclusions regarding the beneficial effect of using manual
acupuncture plus moving cupping.
Speaker Biography
Guang Chen, fromBeijing University of ChineseMedicine and China Academy of Chinese
Medical Sciences. His research mainly focus on the R&D of Chinese herbal medicine in
treatment of cardiovascular diseases, genetic and epigenetic mechanism of Chinese
herbal medicine and cell targeting Aptamers for Nanotheranostics using Cell-SELEX.
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