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...

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....

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...

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 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...

Methods Twenty-one healthy subjects (age: 24.3 ± 2.3 years, 11 female) underwent WI with water temperatures of 33°C (WI33), 36°C (WI36), 39°C (WI39). The procedure was: supine rest (30 minutes), WI (20 minutes) and supine rest (30 minutes). An ECG, the nasal/oral airflo...

PurposeIn the Netherlands, Complementary and AlternativeMedicine (CAM) is offered outside the world of mainstreammedicine. Patients would benefit from an integratedmodel in which CAM is part of mai ...

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...

Methods 60 healthy C57 black mice were randomly allocated to 6 groups including control group, model group, 10.6μm CO2 laser group, 650nm laser group, combined laser group (combined 10.6μm CO2 laser and 650nm laser) and sham group. Each treating group received irradiati...