An at-home pregnancy test can't measure the exact amount of pregnancy hormone in your urine. What it can do is detect whether a minimum amount is present. Getting a negative pregnancy test result doesn't mean your urine doesn't contain hCG. It just means it doesn't contain enough to trigger a positive result.
Acupuncture Heals Constipation Research. New research concludes that acupuncture is an effective treatment therapy for resolving constipation. Researchers compared electro-acupuncture stimulation at key acupuncture points with a sham acupuncture control group. The single-blind, randomized study consisted of women between the ages of 30 and 54 years of age.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Glossary Acupuncture and IBS. Acupuncture, frequently in conjunction with the use of Chinese herbal and/or food medicine, is an alternative medicine that restores health by balancing and improving the flow of chi, the body's natural energy flow, thus restoring proper function of muscles, nerves, vessels, glands, and organs. How can acupuncture help IBS? Both the National Institutes of Health Consensus Panel[3] and the World Health Organization,[4] using different criteria, have identified many different conditions as appropriate for acupuncture treatments, including several that directly pertain to IBS: Abdominal pain.