• The Journal of Korean Medicine Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology and Dermatology
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.99-99
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• 2021

• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.548-553
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• 2009

In this study, after we analyzed 44 recent research paper written about obesity treatement, we tried to understand the acupuncture on the obesity treatment of the recent trend. We searched the recent papers with the key word of obesity, obese, and Acupuncture and are limited since 2004 in the search site KISS, KSI. Recently, acupuncture application for obesity treatment were 6 type. Traditional Acupuncture, Auricular Acupuncture, Electro Acupuncture, Herbal Acupuncture, Chi Acupuncture, and Acupoint Catgut Embedding Therapy. Although acupuncture application were effective method to decrease weight and localized fat, they were critical to evaluate to their effectiveness through strict and scientific clinical trials.

• The Journal of Korean Obstetrics and Gynecology
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.245-262
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• 2019

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to review clinical studies of traditional Korean medicine treatment (herb medicine) on vaginal atrophy. Methods: Key words "Vaginal atrophy", "Vulvovaginal atrophy", "Vaginal dryness", "Atrophic vaginitis", "Herb medicine", "Acupuncture", "Moxibustion", "Catgut embedding" were searched on 11 database systems (PMC, CENTRAL, EMBASE, CNKI, KTKP, KISS, NDSL, OASIS, DBpia, KMBASE, RISS) on May 31th 2019. In all searches, limits were set for MeSH (human) and language (English, Chinese or Korean). Results: 18 controlled clinical trials were collected in accordance with the selection and exclusion criteria. The types of intervention were herbal medicine, and types of herbal medicine were decoction, cream, suppository, oil, ect. The study results and methods of intervention were analyzed. Conclusions: Among the 18 trials, 5 studies showed that herbal medicine with hormone or antiprotozoal therapy was more effective than hormone or antiprotozoal therapy alone. And 2 studies showed that herbal medicine treatment was more effective than oil treatment of topical use. There was no abnormal vaginal bleeding, breast swelling and pain in TCM group.

• The Journal of Pediatrics of Korean Medicine
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.173-198
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• 2003

Back ground : Cerebral palsy(CP) is a static encephalopathy caused by an insult to the brain during the prenatal, perinatal, or postnatal period (ie, up to 2 years). CP can lead to global dysfunction but always includes motor problems Objective : The purpose of this study is to investigate the current tendency of oriental approach to the CP and promote oriental treatment of CP in Korea Method : Investigation of current literature and clinical paper in Korea and Chinese Result and Conclusion : 1) CP fall under the category of wu-chi(five kinds of retardations : 五遲), wu-ruan(five kinds of flaccidity : 五軟), wu-ying(five kinds of Stiffness : 五硬) in oriental medicine and correspond to naoxing-tanhuan in current chinese medicine. 2) CP is mainly caused by weakness of the liver and kidney(肝腎不足), weakness of the spleen and stomach(脾胃虛弱), and the method of treatment is tonify the liver and kidney(補益肝腎), tonify the spleen and replenish qi(補脾益氣), but yu-chi(the faculty of speech : 語遲) is caused by deficiency of the heart(心虛) so that treated with method of invigorating the heart and nourishing blood(補心養血). Recently blood stagnancy the stagnation of qi(氣滯血瘀) is considered as the cause of CP, promoting qi circulation to invigorate blood(行氣活血) is mentioned the treatment of method. 3) In addtion to a herbal medication and acupuncture, the various treatments of scalp acupuncture(頭鍼), acupoint injection(穴位注射), catgut embedding therapy(埋鍼) etc. had been applicated to CP and for the objective evaluation of remedial value, TCD, EEG, BMD have been used.

• Journal of Korean Medicine for Obesity Research
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.125-135
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• 2023

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to review current research trends and to provide basic data for the guideline of the acupuncture treatment for abdominal obesity in the clinic. Methods: Publications related to acupuncture treatment for abdominal obesity were retrieved from 9 databases (PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Cochrane Library, Oriental Medicine Advanced Searching Integrated System, Korean studies Information Service System, Research Information Sharing Service, DataBase Periodical Information Academic, National Discovery for Science Library). Extracted studies were analyzed in terms of publication year, study type, treatment method, acupoint and evaluation method. Results: There were 19 studies about acupuncture treatment applied to abdominal obesity. Electroacupuncture and acupoint catgut embedding therapy was the most frequently studied treatment method. ST₂₅, CV₁₂, SP₁₅, CV₆, CV₄ was the most frequently used acupoint. Body weight, body mass index, waist circumference and waist-hip ratio was the most frequently used evaluation method. Conclusions: This review identified acupuncture application for abdominal obesity. However, well-designed and conducted clinical trials will be more needed to develop acupuncture treatment for abdominal obesity.

• Journal of Korean Medicine Rehabilitation
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.45-59
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• 2023

Objectives The aim of this study was to analyze the trends of researches on oriental medicine treatments for supraspinatus tendinopathy. Methods We used five databases for searching researches; Korean studies Information Service System, Oriental Medicine Advanced Searching Integrated System, Research Information Sharing Service, PubMed, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure. Only randomized controlled trials suitable for the subject were selected. The methodological quality of included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) was assessed by the Cochrane risk of bias tool. Results Twenty randomized controlled trials were analyzed. There were 9 types of treatment interventions; acupuncture, acupotomy, pharmacopuncture, electroacupuncture, fire needling, warming needle, catgut-embedding therapy, herbal medicine, cupping. The most frequently used treatment intervention was acupuncture and acupotomy. There were 9 outcome measurements including visual analog scale (VAS), Constant-Murley Score (CMS), and range of motion. The most used measurement was VAS. As a result of meta-analysis, acupuncture was more effective than control group in VAS. Additionally, acupotomy was clinically significant compared to control groups in VAS and CMS. Conclusions In this review, we analyzed researches on effectiveness of oriental medicine for supraspinatus tendinopathy. A provisional conclusion can be produced that acupuncture and acupotomy showed beneficial effect to supraspinatus tendinopathy. Although there were some RCT studies, many of them had a high risk of bias, so it is hard to conclude that our study can include overall clinical status. Further well-designed trials are needed.