Methods To date, 54 participants (mean age 58.7, 82% female) were randomized to either: 1) lavender (stress-reducing aroma), 2) coconut (detectable placebo), or 3) water (non-detectable placebo). The detectable placebo group was used to assess aroma-mediated expectancy....

Purpose This study seeks an inexpensive, non-invasive, and easily reproducible measure of autonomic activity, which could greatly advance mind-body research and treatment. Specific aims of this study were to: explore the utility of selected physiological measures as a g...

Purpose Obesity is on the rise in the United States and there has been a conscious effort on the part of the government and physicians to provide measures to counteract the epidemic. Diet is an important part of therapeutic lifestyle modification, but many physicians fe...

Methods Fifty undergraduates in depressive states (CES-D score ≥16, HAMD score≥7, <17) were assigned to 4 groups based on intervention preference in a pragmatic trial. Electro-acupuncture, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), and a combined intervention of electro-acupunct...

Results We found that at low doses Huang Qin induced cytotoxicity (1 μg/ml), but at high doses, 50-300 μg/ml, the same herb induced cell proliferation. Chuan Bei Mu exhibited a similar biphasic response with cytoxicity at 1-200 μg/ml but proliferation at 400 μg/ml. Data...

Purpose Non-intervention research using clinical records is difficult, both from the theoretical and practical standpoints. Progress on the former requires progress on the latter. Several techniques have been developed in the SPICER project to overcome the various pract...

Purpose Primary dysmenorrhea is highly prevalent among adolescent women and a major cause of activity restriction. Standard pharmaceuticals for dysmenorrhea have side effects that may limit their use. Acupoint injection of vitamin K has been used to treat dysmenorrhea a...

Purpose Evidence to date suggests there is no one treatment approach which is clearly superior for low back pain (LBP). It is plausible that combining treatments with small to moderate effect sizes will improve patient outcomes. Additional benefit might also be achieved...

Purpose Relatively little is known about the patterns of complementary medicine (CM) use by HIV-positive people in the last decade, since the introduction of contemporary antiretroviral therapy (ART), or their information requirements. As ART use has evolved, CM use is ...