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{"title":"Success of acupuncture and acupressure of the Pc 6 acupoint in the treatment of hyperemesis gravidarum.","authors":"D Habek,&nbsp;A Barbir,&nbsp;J C Habek,&nbsp;D Janculiak,&nbsp;M Bobić-Vuković","doi":"10.1159/000077192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000077192","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The aim of this study was to evaluate the antiemetic effect of acupuncture (AP) and acupressure (APr) of the Pc 6 acupoint in pregnant women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A prospective, placebo-controlled trial included 36 pregnant women with HG. Two methods of acupuncture were used: bilateral manual AP of the Pc 6 (Neiguan) acupoint (group 1, n = 10) and bilateral APr of the Pc 6 acupoint (group 2, n = 11); furthermore, superficial intracutaneous placebo AP (group 3, n = 8) and placebo APr (group 4, n = 7) was carried out.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Anxiodepressive symptoms occurred in 9 pregnant women with HG from group 1, 8 women from group 2, 7 women from group 3, and 5 women from group 4 (p < 0.001). The average gestation age at the occurrence of HG symptoms and the beginning of treatment was 7 weeks in group 1 and 8 weeks in groups 2, 3, and 4. Four women from group 1 and 7 women from groups 2, 3, an 4 needed intravenous compensation of liquid and electrolytes. The antiemetic metoclopramide was given intravenously to 1 woman from group 1, 2 women from group 2, 6 women from group 3, and 4 women from group 4. Promethazine was given to 1 woman from group 2, 1 woman from group 3, and to 3 women from group 4. The efficiency of the HG treatment with AP of the point Pc 6 was 90%, with APr of the Pc 6 63.6%, with placebo AP 12.5%, and with placebo APr 0%.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Acupuncture (p < 0.0001) and acupressure (p < 0.1) are effective, nonpharmacologic methods for the treatment of HG.</p>","PeriodicalId":80278,"journal":{"name":"Forschende Komplementarmedizin und klassische Naturheilkunde = Research in complementary and natural classical medicine","volume":"11 1","pages":"20-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000077192","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24428978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[What worries me!].","authors":"R Lüdtke","doi":"10.1159/000077188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000077188","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80278,"journal":{"name":"Forschende Komplementarmedizin und klassische Naturheilkunde = Research in complementary and natural classical medicine","volume":"11 1","pages":"4-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000077188","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24428487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Homeopathy and structure of water: a physical model].","authors":"K W Kratky","doi":"10.1159/000077193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000077193","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Formerly, the author has suggested a relatively simple water model. There, the dynamical structure of a typical water cluster was investigated, being represented by the movement of a ball in an abstract energy landscape.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>Now the above-mentioned model is investigated in more detail to answer the following question: Are essential claims of homeopathy concerning potentiation (diluting and shaking) in agreement with science?</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Equations of motion are employed that represent vibrations of clusters. For the computer experiments, the formalism of Nosé-Hoover is used, the surrounding water being interpreted as a heat bath. Diluting corresponds to a shift of the energy landscape towards the pure solvent (water), shaking is accompanied by an increase of the contact to the heat bath.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There is a tendency of the ball to be caught in local valleys of the energy landscape (metastable states) if the temperature is not too high and if the liquid is not shaken. Thus, even for a given landscape there are a variety of structures being durable for some time.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The computer experiments suggest that the repeated process of potentiation eventually results in a specific metastable state of the pure solvent. The initial substance helps to obtain this goal, but is no longer necessary at last.</p>","PeriodicalId":80278,"journal":{"name":"Forschende Komplementarmedizin und klassische Naturheilkunde = Research in complementary and natural classical medicine","volume":"11 1","pages":"24-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000077193","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24428979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inhibition of (-)-propranolol hydrochloride by its enantiomer in white mice--a placebo-controlled randomized study.","authors":"R M Kuzeff,&nbsp;R P Mecheva,&nbsp;M N Topashka-Ancheva","doi":"10.1159/000077191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000077191","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>A previous pilot study was performed to see if toxicity of (S)-(-)-propranolol hydrochloride may be inhibited by a potentized preparation of its enantiomer. The present study is based on the hypothesis that the toxic effects of an optical isomer, may be counteracted or reversed by the administration of a potentized preparation of one of its stereoisomers, and in particular the enantiomer.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>508 ICR conventional mice were used. 254 mice were administered (R)-(+)-propranolol HCl homeopathic potency prior to and during the experiment, and the other 254 were administered indistinguishable placebo. On the day of the experiment mice were anesthetized with intraperitoneal Rometar. Once sedated the mice were administered the LD50 dose of (-)-propranolol HCl intraperitoneally.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The end point for statistical analysis was the difference in survival between the placebo and treatment mice. The odds ratio for survival of treatment mice relative to placebo mice was 1.52. The hypothesis of equal survival proportions gave a chi-square of 5.0429 (1 degree of freedom), which has a p-value of 0.0247. The analysis was then adjusted for mouse weight and intraperitoneal (-)-propranolol dosage using a logistic regression (LR) model. The LR treatment odds ratio was 1.51 and the LR treatment chi-square was 4.8112 (1 degree of freedom), which has a p-value of 0.0283. Consequently, we reject the null hypothesis of no treatment effect on survival. Eleven percent more treatment mice survived than placebo mice.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We conclude that the toxicity of intraperitoneal (-)-propranolol HCl, may be counteracted by administration of a potency of its enantiomer, in ICR conventional mice which have survived preceding intraperitoneal Rometar injection, and pre-dosing with (+)-propranolol HCl homeopathic potency.</p>","PeriodicalId":80278,"journal":{"name":"Forschende Komplementarmedizin und klassische Naturheilkunde = Research in complementary and natural classical medicine","volume":"11 1","pages":"14-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000077191","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24428977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Peppermint (Mentha x piperita), medicinal plant of the year 2004].","authors":"R Saller","doi":"10.1159/000077189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000077189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80278,"journal":{"name":"Forschende Komplementarmedizin und klassische Naturheilkunde = Research in complementary and natural classical medicine","volume":"11 1","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000077189","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24428973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Balneotherapy and spa therapy of rheumatic diseases in Turkey: a systematic review].","authors":"M Z Karagülle,&nbsp;M Karagülle","doi":"10.1159/000077194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000077194","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>Turkey has a lot of thermal and mineral springs and is looking back on a still vivid tradition of spa therapy and balneotherapy, applied especially for the treatment of rheumatic diseases. This tradition is predominantly empiric and intuitive, however, it has assumed some important aspects of modern balneotherapeutic methods as well. This article is aimed at presenting the characteristics of traditional and modern balneological and spa therapy forms in Turkey.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The studies which have been conducted between 1990 and 2000 in different spas in Turkey on the efficacy and effectiveness of spa therapy and balneotherapy for rheumatic diseases have been searched and analyzed independent of their design. A descriptive evaluation of the studies was carried out.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 15 published studies have been found and analyzed. The investigations have been carried out in 8 different spa resorts in Turkey. In these studies the effectiveness and efficacy of different balneological and spa therapies on a variety of rheumatic diseases (from osteoarthritis to fibromyalgia and from rheumatoid arthritis to low back pain) could be shown. Nearly all studied balneotherapeutic modalities were applied as bathing cures. Only in one study peloid therapy was applied. Balneotherapeutic therapy was applied in a modern and traditional way, and both open and stationary spa therapy forms were used at the same time.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The review has shown the effectiveness of the investigated spa therapy and balneotherapy forms. It could be concluded that nearly all forms of spa therapy and balneotherapy used for the treatment of rheumatic diseases in Turkey are effective. A definitive conclusion, however, is not possible because of the heterogeneity of the study designs, methodological flaws, and the publication bias. In future good quality randomized controlled trials are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":80278,"journal":{"name":"Forschende Komplementarmedizin und klassische Naturheilkunde = Research in complementary and natural classical medicine","volume":"11 1","pages":"33-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000077194","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24428980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Unspecified stimuli--a classic misunderstanding].","authors":"C Gutenbrunner","doi":"10.1159/000075881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000075881","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80278,"journal":{"name":"Forschende Komplementarmedizin und klassische Naturheilkunde = Research in complementary and natural classical medicine","volume":"10 6","pages":"296-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000075881","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24150507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Alexander technique: a systematic review of controlled clinical trials.","authors":"E Ernst,&nbsp;P H Canter","doi":"10.1159/000075886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000075886","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>Alexander technique (AT), a process of psychophysical re-education, is being promoted for a range of medical conditions. This systematic review is aimed at critically evaluating the evidence for or against the effectiveness of AT.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Computerized literature searches were performed in five databases to locate all controlled clinical trials of AT in any human condition. Data were extracted independently by two reviewers according to pre-defined criteria. The information was summarized in tabular and narrative form. The methodological quality of the primary studies was assessed using the Jadad score.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Four clinical trials met our inclusion/exclusion criteria. Only two of these trials were methodologically sound and clinically relevant. Their results are promising and imply that AT is effective in reducing the disability of patients suffering from Parkinson's disease and in improving pain behaviour and disability in patients with back pain.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The few controlled clinical trials of AT yield encouraging albeit not convincing evidence. AT deserves to be studied in more detail.</p>","PeriodicalId":80278,"journal":{"name":"Forschende Komplementarmedizin und klassische Naturheilkunde = Research in complementary and natural classical medicine","volume":"10 6","pages":"325-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000075886","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24150415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sensitive flow cytometric method to test basophil activation influenced by homeopathic histamine dilutions.","authors":"I Lorenz,&nbsp;E M Schneider,&nbsp;P Stolz,&nbsp;A Brack,&nbsp;J Strube","doi":"10.1159/000075885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000075885","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>In an experimental setting, human basophil degranulation was triggered by anti-IgE to measure the effects from homeopathic solutions in an in-vitro cell system. A 3-color flow cytometric method with enhanced accuracy was established. As an example we looked at the influence of histamine on anti-IgE activation of basophils.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Basophils were identified in the flow cytometer by their physical properties in the forward and side scatter light depiction and by gating on CD2(-), CD14(-), CD16(-), CD19(-), HLA-DR(-) negative and CD123-positive cells. CD63 expression on the cell surface of the anti-IgE-activated basophils served as an activation marker.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>With this method we were able to study basophil function of the 0.6-3.9% basophils out of the mononuclear blood cell fraction and to document their activation status upon anti-IgE activation. Optimal activation occurs at 0.6 microg/ml final anti-IgE concentration; not less than 10,000 basophils have to be counted per batch to reduce the variation of the measurement. The fixation method was able to stabilize activation for two days. After investigation and reduction of the source of measurement variability, an unequivocally inhibited basophil activation was documented in a partly optimized system with homeopathic dilutions of histamine (10(-22)M, 10(-23)M, 10(-24)M, and 10(-25)M histamine). Dilutions greater than 10(-20)M histamine (Avogadro's number 6.02 x 10(23)) account for less than 1.36 molecules of histamine in the test sample, indicating a true homeopathic effect.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This test system is adequate for studying the effects of highly diluted mediators on basophil activation by anti-IgE. The systematic application of this experimental arrangement is recommended to study the effects of homeopathic dilutions on basophils.</p>","PeriodicalId":80278,"journal":{"name":"Forschende Komplementarmedizin und klassische Naturheilkunde = Research in complementary and natural classical medicine","volume":"10 6","pages":"316-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000075885","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24150414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Quality assurance in the teaching of medical students illustrated by the example of spa therapy for rheumatic diseases].","authors":"E Mur,&nbsp;F Hartig,&nbsp;E Blumenthal-Hausmann,&nbsp;A Falkenbach","doi":"10.1159/000075882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000075882","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The currently employed methods for quality assurance in student education are frequently considered as being inadequate. In the present study the request to plan a budget for the treatment of patients with ankylosing spondylitis is presented as an additional method to assess the influence of a teaching course on the student's attitude towards certain interventions. How would medical students distribute financial resources for the treatment of patients with ankylosing spondylitis? Does a course 'Excursion to a Spa' lead to changes in budgeting by the student?</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Before and after a 4-day excursion to Bad Gastein (health resort primarily for patients with rheumatic diseases) to become better acquainted with the local treatment modalities medical students in semester 8.4 +/- 3.8 (5th year in medical school) were asked how they would distribute a fixed sum of EUR 5,000.- (= 100%) for a prospective period of 5 years over 9 given forms of treatment in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis in order to provide optimal improvement of the disease and quality of life.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Before the excursion the students distributed the budget as follows: drug therapy 15%, spa therapy 17%, physical therapy 14%, exercise therapy 19%, massage therapy 11%, unconventional therapies 5%, psychological therapy 7%, changes in the household environment 8%, private pleasure 4%. After the excursion to the spa the medical students assigned more financial means on spa therapy (p = 0.024, Wilcoxon test) and unconventional therapies (p = 0.015).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Creating a budget for a defined disease appears to be a useful instrument for assessing the influence of a teaching course on medical students' attitude towards certain interventions and for detecting imbalances in the presentation of therapy procedures or discrepancies between the presentation and the aims of teaching.</p>","PeriodicalId":80278,"journal":{"name":"Forschende Komplementarmedizin und klassische Naturheilkunde = Research in complementary and natural classical medicine","volume":"10 6","pages":"298-302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000075882","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24150508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}