The most widely used H. pylori treatments are 1-week triple therapy regimens involving twice daily dosing with a PPI, clarithromycin 500 mg and either amoxicillin 1 g or metronidazole 400−500 mg.

As acupuncture has shown considerable benefits in patients with various gastrointestinal disorders, Dickman and colleagues compared this alternative therapy with doubling the dose of the PPI in ...

pylori were randomly assigned to receive bacterial eradication with triple therapy for two weeks before or after four weeks of PPI therapy. Two hundred forty-eight patients were enrolled ...