{"id":29148,"date":"2025-09-23T21:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=29148"},"modified":"2025-09-23T21:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:12:13","slug":"acupuncture-shows-promise-for-hot-flashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/23\/acupuncture-shows-promise-for-hot-flashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Acupuncture Shows Promise for Hot Flashes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) \u2014 Acupuncture may offer women an alternative for easing\u00a0hot flashes<\/a>\u00a0during\u00a0menopause<\/a>, preliminary research suggests.<\/p>\n

In a study of 29 women with frequent, daily\u00a0hot flashes<\/a>, researchers found that those who received\u00a0acupuncture<\/a>\u00a0began to have fewer and less severe symptoms during the night.<\/p>\n

As nighttime hot flashes improved, so did the quality of the women\u2019s sleep, the researchers report in the journal Fertility & Sterility.<\/p>\n

Hot flashes are a common part of\u00a0menopause<\/a>, and women who get them often have difficulty getting a good night\u2019s sleep. Hormone replacement therapy is effective at quelling\u00a0hot flashes<\/a>, but given the risks of the therapy \u2014 including increased risks of\u00a0heart disease<\/a>\u00a0and breast cancer \u2014 many women are interested in alternative treatments.<\/p>\n

The new findings offer preliminary evidence that\u00a0acupuncture<\/a>\u00a0works, but it\u2019s too early to recommend the procedure for\u00a0hot flashes<\/a>, senior study author Dr. Rachel Manber told Reuters Health.<\/p>\n

\u201cLarge replication studies are necessary before we move from bench to bed,\u201d said Manber, an associate professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine in California.<\/p>\n

Recent medical research has found that acupuncture may work by altering signals among nerve cells or by affecting the release of various chemicals of the central nervous system. There\u2019s also some evidence that\u00a0acupuncture<\/a>\u00a0affects hormones related to both sleep and\u00a0menopause<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, for now, the mechanism by which acupuncture might affect\u00a0hot flashes<\/a>\u00a0is not completely understood, Manber said.<\/p>\n

For their study, she and her colleagues randomly assigned 29 women to receive seven weeks of\u00a0acupuncture<\/a>\u00a0or a \u201csham\u201d version of the procedure. In the latter case, acupuncturists used flat-tipped needles that did not pierce the skin, placing them on areas of the skin not considered to be\u00a0acupuncture<\/a>\u00a0points. The patients could not see that the needles weren\u2019t piercing their skin.<\/p>\n

By the end of treatment, women who\u2019d been getting the real acupuncture sessions reported a greater reduction in the severity of their nighttime\u00a0hot flashes<\/a>\u00a0than those in the comparison group.<\/p>\n

Both groups said their hot flashes had become less frequent, the researchers found, and as hot flash symptoms improved, so did the women\u2019s sleep quality.<\/p>\n

The sleep improvements were seen in both groups, and\u00a0acupuncture<\/a>\u00a0itself did not seem to have a special effect on sleep. However, Manber pointed out, the acupuncture points used in the study were chosen because they target hot flash symptoms, according to traditional medicine. So the therapy was not designed to directly address sleep problems, she said.<\/p>\n

Article courtesy of\u00a0CNN<\/a><\/p>\n

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About the author<\/h3>\n

\"Dee<\/p>\n

Dee Braun ~ I am a Certified Aromatherapist, Reiki Master, Holistic Health Practitioner, Master Herbalist, Dr. of Reflexology and single mom who is dedicated to helping others any way I can. One way I choose to help is by offering information on the benefits and uses of natural healing methods. One of my most favorite quotes is:I wanted to change the world, so I got up one morning and looked in the mirror. That one looking back said: “There is not much time left. The earth is wracked with pain. Children are starving. Nations remain divided by mistrust and hatred. Everywhere the air and water have been fouled almost beyond help. Do something!” ~Michael Jackson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) \u2014 Acupuncture may offer women an alternative for easing\u00a0hot flashes\u00a0during\u00a0menopause, preliminary research suggests. In a study of 29 women with frequent, daily\u00a0hot flashes, researchers found that those who received\u00a0acupuncture\u00a0began to have fewer and less severe symptoms during the night. As nighttime hot flashes improved, so did the quality of the women\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-therapies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}