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Acupunct Med 2009;27:134 doi:10.1136/aim.2009.001172
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How acupuncture may relieve infantile colic symptoms—melatonin, serotonin and circadian rhythmicity

  1. Yusuf Ozgur Cakmak
  1. EPAM Research Center, Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of Marmara, Istanbul, Turkey
  1. Correspondence to Dr Yusuf Ozgur Cakmak, Medical Acupuncture Center, Integrative Medicine, Goztepe Medical Park Hospital, İstanbul 34668, Turkey; ycakmak{at}marmara.edu.tr

    Reinthal et al’s study of minimal acupuncture effects on infantile colic was a great support for paediatric acupuncture.1 Although acupuncture has long been used for infantile colic, there were no randomised controlled trials until Reinthal et al’s study. Six years before that, Zhao2 had reported treatment of infantile morbid night crying with acupuncture at point PC9 in 100 cases, which were not referred to in Reinthal et al’s study.

    In the Reinthal et al study, the effect of needling of the chosen point LI4 was attributed to …

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