Patients with epilepsy are currently treated with antiepileptic drugs, but a significant number of people continue to have seizures and many experience adverse effects to the drugs. As a result there is increasing interest in alternative therapies and acupuncture is one of those. However, despite numerous experimental studies and observational studies in humans, acupuncture has not yet been proven to be effective and safe for treating people with epilepsy.
Authors' conclusions
The current evidence does not support acupuncture as a treatment for epilepsy. Much larger high quality clinical trials employing appropriate controls are needed.
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