Influential factors and mechanism of non-specific effect in acupuncture.
10.13703/j.0255-2930.2016.12.026
- Author:
Liting LIN
1
;
Yi LIU
1
;
Guangxia SHI
2
;
Wen ZHU
2
;
Xin ZHANG
1
;
Chaoqun YAN
1
;
Xuerui WANG
3
;
Cunzhi LIU
2
Author Information
1. Graduate School, Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China.
2. Acupuncture-Moxibustion Center, Beijing Chinese Medicine Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing 100010, China.
3. Beijing Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Capital Medical University.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
acupuncture;
impact factor;
mechanism;
non-specific effect;
review;
specific effect
- From:
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion
2016;36(12):1319-1323
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Even though a large amount of researches showing the clinical effectiveness of acupuncture, there are the researches indicating the absent difference between acupuncture and sham-acupuncture (placebo), which provides the doubts on the specificity of acupuncture. It may be considered that acupuncture intervention is complica-ted and may produce unique non-specific effect, which results in the failure to evaluate effectively the acupuncture efficacy. The influential factors of the non-specific effect of acupuncture include the interaction between physician and patient, expectancy, physician authority, acupuncture treatment experiences, etc. It may be also relevant with the anticipated biological effect, Hawthorne effect, Pavlovian conditioned reflex, etc.
