Minimal acupuncture is not a valid placebo control in randomised controlled trials of acupuncture: a physiologist's perspective
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Placebo-control of acupuncture is used to evaluate and distinguish between the specific effects and the non-specific ones. During 'true' acupuncture treatment in general, the needles are inserted into acupoints and stimulated until <it>deqi </i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-01-01
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| Series: | Chinese Medicine |
| Online Access: | http://www.cmjournal.org/content/4/1/1 |