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As a treatment for irritable bowel syndrome, acupuncture is associated with improvements in quality of life. However, the improvement reported by patients who underwent a fake or "sham" procedure suggest that a placebo effect is largely responsible for the benefits, new research shows.

The findings, which appear in the medical journal Gut, support previous reports, which have failed to establish acupuncture as an effective treatment for irritable bowel syndrome.


"Based on the small differences found between acupuncture and sham acupuncture, a study using individual traditional Chinese medicine patterns with 566 patients would be necessary to prove efficacy," Dr. Antonius Schneider, from the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and colleagues state. "The question is whether such a difference would be clinically relevant."



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