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Acupuncture Congress 2018
Herbal Medicine: Open Access
ISSN: 2472-0151
Page 71
August 20-21, 2018
Dublin, Ireland
9
th
International Conference on
Acupuncture &
Chinese Medicine
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n this systematic review and meta-analysis, we investigated the
efficacy and safety of auricular acupuncture (AA), which is a safe
and non-pharmaceutical treatment inserting needle or attaching
medicinal herb to acupoints in the outer ear, for cognitive
impairment and dementia. Tweleve electronic databases were
searched and nine randomized controlled trials (RCTs), to August
2017, evaluating effects of AA on cognitive impairment and/or
dementia were included. The results are as follow. For vascular
dementia (VD) patients, AA showed mixed results on cognitive
functionand insignificant differences in self-care ability compared
to western medication (WM). However, when AA combined with
WM, the clinical effectiveness was better compared to WM alone.
For mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients, AA combined
with WM did not showed significant improvement in cognitive
function compared to WM. However, when AA combined with
herbal medicine (HM), significnat improvements in cognitive
function and self-care ability were occured, compared to HM
alone. There was no report about adverse event associated with
AA. The methodological quality of included RCTs was generally
poor. For the efficacy of AA on cognitive impairment and/
or dementia, limited evidence suggested that AA may help to
enhance the clinical effectiveness of WM in VD patients and to
improve cognitive function and self-care ability of MCI patients
when it combined with HM. However, more rigrous and large-
sacle RCTs are needed to confirm the efficacy and safey of AA on
these population.
beanalogue@naver.comAuricular acupuncture for cognitive impairment and dementia:
a systematic review
Chan-Young Kwon
1, 2
1
Kyung Hee University, South Korea
2
Yanggugun Public Health Center, South Korea
Herb Med. 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2472-0151-C1-003