{"id":1349,"date":"2020-05-14T02:09:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2020-05-14T02:09:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:09:05","slug":"acupuncture-may-be-effective-at-reducing-indigestion-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"Acupuncture May Be Effective at Reducing Indigestion Symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pin, rather than a pill, could help those living with the most common form of recurring indigestion.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in China say a 4-week course of acupuncture appears to relieve symptoms of postprandial distress syndrome (PDS), a form of indigestion characterized by early fullness after eating and upper abdominal bloating.<\/p>\n<p>In Western medicine, PDS is usually treated with antacid medications, such as Tagamet, Pepcid, and Axid.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers from the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine say acupuncture could be a safe and effective alternative.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, 278 study participants with PDS were given either 12 sessions of acupuncture over 4 weeks or received \u201csham\u201d acupuncture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health-news\/acupuncture-effective-reducing-indigestion-symptoms\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pin, rather than a pill, could help those living with the most common form of recurring indigestion. Researchers in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acupuncture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}