Jiang Zhu

ORCID: 0000-0001-9940-2496
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Research Areas
  • Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies
  • Healthcare and Venom Research
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies
  • Menstrual Health and Disorders
  • Medical Research and Treatments
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Infrared Thermography in Medicine
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Biofield Effects and Biophysics
  • Pharmacological Effects of Natural Compounds
  • Ginseng Biological Effects and Applications
  • Barrier Structure and Function Studies
  • Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
  • Health and Wellbeing Research
  • Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease Prognosis
  • Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders
  • Endometriosis Research and Treatment
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
  • Pregnancy-related medical research
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Respiratory viral infections research

Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
2011-2023

State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People's Republic of China
2012-2019

Beijing City University
2017

Dongfeng General Hospital
2014

Hubei University of Medicine
2014

Dongfeng Motor (China)
2014

Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2005-2013

Capital Medical University
2013

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
2012

Hebei Medical University
2010

The objective of this study was to compare the effects Sanyinjiao (SP6), Xuanzhong (GB39), and an adjacent non-meridian point on menstrual pain uterine arterial blood flow in primary dysmenorrhea patients.The design a prospective, randomized controlled trial.The setting Shandong Institute Medical Imaging, Jinan, China.The patients were 52 women with dysmenorrhea.Women received electroacupuncture (EA) at SP6 (n=13), GB39 (n=14), (n=12), respectively, for 10 minutes when scored ≥40 100-mm...

10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.00949.x article EN Pain Medicine 2010-09-08

Background. Acupuncture is often used for primary dysmenorrhea. Objective. To assess the efficacy of a single point acupuncture in management dysmenorrhea compared with sham and no acupuncture. Methodology. Patients were randomly assigned to acupoint group (n = 50), unrelated nonacupoint 46), or 48). administered once-daily 3 days electro-acupuncture at Sanyinjiao (SP6) that was specifically designed treat dysmenorrhea, an (Xuanzhong, GB39), location. The outcome pain intensity as measured...

10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.01017.x article EN Pain Medicine 2010-12-17

To explore the physiologic mechanism of immediate analgesic effect acupuncture in primary dysmenorrhea patients.Forty patients were randomized into Sanyinjiao (SP6) group, Xuanzhong (GB39) control nonacupoint or no group. Patients 3 groups treated with electroacupuncture at assigned points lasting 30 minutes, whereas group did not receive any intervention. Before and after acupuncture, visual analogue scale (VAS) scores recorded blood samples taken for measurement plasma levels 4 principal...

10.1097/ajp.0b013e3181fb27ae article EN Clinical Journal of Pain 2010-11-01

BackgroundAcupuncture is often used for primary dysmenorrhea. But there no convincing evidence due to low methodological quality. We aim assess immediate effect of acupuncture at specific acupoint compared with unrelated and nonacupoint on

10.1111/pme.12392 article EN Pain Medicine 2014-03-17

This study assessed the importance of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) pattern on an acupoint-specific effect.This was a TCM subdivision analysis first intervention data from multicenter, randomized, controlled trial (ISRCTN24863192) (the main trial).The recruited participants six hospitals in three provinces China.Five hundred and one (501) diagnosed with primary dysmenorrhea (PD) were enrolled trial.The randomly equally divided into treatment groups bilateral electroacupuncture at sites,...

10.1089/acm.2011.0404 article EN The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2012-07-23

Objective: The objective of this study was to compare immediate effect acupuncture at SP6 on uterine arterial blood flow in primary dysmenorrhea with that GB39. Design: This a prospective, randomized clinical trial. Setting: Sixty-six (66) patients from the Affiliated Hospital Shangdong University Traditional Chinese Medicine were recruited. Interventions: group (n = 32) treated manual bilateral for 5 minutes after obtaining needling sensation (de qi) during period menstrual pain, whereas...

10.1089/acm.2009.0326 article EN The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2010-10-01

Deqi is a central concept in traditional Chinese acupuncture. We performed secondary analysis on data from larger randomized controlled trial (RCT) order to assess the effect of acupuncture deqi traits and pain intensity primary dysmenorrhea.A total 60 dysmenorrhea patients were enrolled randomly assigned one three treatment groups. Acupuncture was given at SP6, GB39 or nonacupoint. Subjective measured by 100-mm visual analogue scale (VAS) before after The Massachusetts General Hospital...

10.1186/1472-6882-14-69 article EN cc-by BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2014-02-21

Deqi sensation is believed to be important in clinical efficacy according TCM theory. The measuring method of has significant implications for the result research trials. This study makes an investigation on acupuncture-experienced patients and expert acupuncturists China aims find out patient’s needling sensations acupuncturist’s which can acceptable as descriptors sensation, so provide foundation more systematic sensitive quantitative evaluation sensation. Results this survey indicated...

10.1155/2013/430851 article EN Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2013-01-01

The aim of this multicentre randomised controlled trial was to investigate the contribution de qi immediate analgesic effect acupuncture in patients with primary dysmenorrhoea and specific traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis cold dampness stagnation.Eighty-eight stagnation were randomly assigned (n=43) or no (n=45) groups underwent 30 min SP6 acupuncture. group received deep needling at manipulation using thick needles; shallow thin needles. In both pain scores actual sensation evaluated...

10.1136/acupmed-2016-011228 article EN cc-by-nc Acupuncture in Medicine 2017-07-12

Acupuncture therapy is effective for relieving postoperative pain. Our previous study showed that electroacupuncture (EA) at Futu (LI18) and Hegu (LI4)-Neiguan (PC6) could alleviate incisional neck pain, which was related with its effect in upregulating γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) expression cervical (C3-6) dorsal root ganglions (DRGs); but whether receptor subsets GABAAα2R GABABR1 C3-6 DRGs are involved EA analgesia or not, it remains unknown.Seventy-five male Sprague Dawley rats were...

10.2147/jpr.s180165 article EN cc-by-nc Journal of Pain Research 2019-01-01

To assess skin temperature response to menstruation at acupuncture points in primary dysmenorrhea (PD) patients and healthy volunteers so as explore point specificity reflecting diseases the light of temperature. Fifty-two PD 49 were recruited. Skin measurements performed with a assessment device 10 points. Absolute difference between same on left right side is used main outcome measure. On first day menstruation, when menstrual pain attacking patients, significant increase was detected...

10.1016/s0254-6272(17)30048-1 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Deleted Journal 2017-04-01

Although deqi, the phenomenon whereby excitation of Qi in meridians occurs with needling, is critical to practice acupuncture and its efficacy, it poorly understood. So we investigate influence deqi sensation on analgesic effects patients who were enrolled a randomised controlled trial for treatment primary dysmenorrhea, painful common condition, cold dampness stagnation. Two groups assessed: group (undergoing deep needling thick needles manipulation, n=17) non-deqi shallow thin no n=51)....

10.1155/2019/6462576 article EN Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2019-05-16

Self-care acupressure might be successful in treating menstrual pain, which is common among young women. There a need for comparative effectiveness research with stakeholder engagement all phases seeking to address the needs of decision-makers. Our aim was design study on additional self-care pain comparing usual care alone using different methods engagement.The designed multiple mixed engagement. Based results survey and focus group discussion, advisory developed design.Stakeholder resulted...

10.1186/1745-6215-14-99 article EN cc-by Trials 2013-04-11

Background . Deqi sensation is a complex but an important component for acupuncture effect. In this study, we tried to observe the relationship between and skin temperature changes whether there was some relativity needle stimulations on cold congealing dysmenorrhea rat model. Thirty‐two female Sprague Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into four groups (Saline Control Group, Model Group A with strong stimulation, B small stimulation). performed different stimulations. We found that,...

10.1155/2014/595963 article EN cc-by Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2014-01-01

Electrical skin resistance (ESR) measurements were performed with a four‐electrode impedance detector at 10 points bilaterally on the first day of and third after menstruation in 48 healthy volunteers 46 primary dysmenorrhea (PD) patients, to assess whether ESR changes acupuncture can reflect menstrual pain or not. The results showed statistical reductions imbalance ratio between left right side that detected SP8 (Diji) GB39 (Xuanzhong) ( P < 0.05), increase was SP6 (Sanyinjiao) = 0.05)...

10.1155/2014/836026 article EN cc-by Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2014-01-01

In this study, we try to evaluate the effects of acupuncture stimulation with different amounts at Sanyinjiao (SP6) on uterine contraction and uterus microcirculation in rats dysmenorrhea cold coagulation syndrome explore whether there is direct relativity between "De qi" needle stimulus intensity. Diestrus female were randomly divided into 4 groups, including saline control group, model "A" group (with strong stimulus), "B" weak stimulus). We found that present a high intensity tension...

10.1155/2014/328657 article EN cc-by Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2014-01-01
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