+1 (629)348-3199Acupuncture plus moving cupping therapy for Insomnia in cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Joint Event on 3rd World Congress on Cardiology & 16th International Conference on Nutrition and Fitness
October 29-30, 2018 | London, UK
Guang Chen
China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, China
Scientific Tracks Abstracts : J Nutr Hum Health
Abstract:
Background: Insomnia is a very common health issue among
populations of cardiovascular diseases. Moving Cupping Therapy
is a kind of TCM external therapies wildly used to treat insomnia
and it could increase the effectiveness of acupuncture.
Objective: The purpose of this review is to assess the effectiveness
and safety of Acupuncture and moving 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 randomized controlled
trials on acupuncture plus moving cupping therapy for insomnia
were included. A meta-analysis was conducted following the
recommendations in the Cochrane Handbook of Systematic
Reviews of Interventions.
Results: We included 11 trials involving 866 patients. The quality
of the included studies was generally poor. The results of the
meta-analysis showed that the effective rate after treatment of
manual acupuncture plus moving cupping was higher than that
after western medicine treatment only and manual acupuncture
only. On the other hand, one trial reported manual 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
of manual acupuncture plus moving cupping. However, due to
poor methodological quality, we could not draw confirmative
conclusions regarding the beneficial effect of using manual
acupuncture plus moving cupping.
Biography:
Guang Chen, from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine 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.
E-mail: wdclgz0000@163.com
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