Acupuncture means that under the guidance of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, a needle (usually a filiform needle) is inserted into a patient's body at a certain angle, and acupuncture techniques such as twisting and lifting are used to stimulate specific parts of the human body to achieve the purpose of treating diseases. Puncture points are called human acupoints, or acupoints for short. According to the latest statistics of acupuncture textbooks, the human body has 36 1 acupoint.

Moxibustion is to cauterize and fumigate some acupoints on the body surface with prefabricated moxibustion pots or herbs, and to prevent and treat diseases by thermal stimulation. Usually wormwood is the most commonly used, so it is called moxibustion, and there are other methods such as medicinal moxibustion, wicker moxibustion, wick moxibustion, mulberry branch moxibustion and so on. Now people often use moxa stick moxibustion in their lives.

Acupuncture consists of "acupuncture" and "moxibustion", which is one of the important components of oriental medicine. Its contents include acupuncture theory, acupoints, acupuncture techniques and related instruments. In the process of its formation, application and development, it has distinctive Chinese national culture and regional characteristics, and is a valuable heritage based on Chinese national culture and scientific tradition.

In 2006, the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine announced that acupuncture was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by the State Council.

The characteristic of acupuncture therapy is that it does not rely on taking medicine to treat diseases, but only uses acupuncture on a certain part of the patient's body to stab nerves and cause local reactions, or burns the part with the warm stimulation of fire to achieve the purpose of treating diseases. The former is called acupuncture, and the latter is called moxibustion, collectively referred to as acupuncture therapy.

Clinically, acupuncture therapy can diagnose the cause, find out the key to the disease and distinguish the nature of the disease according to the diagnosis and treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine. Then make the corresponding acupoint prescription for treatment. In order to dredge meridians, regulate qi and blood, make yin and yang relatively balanced, and make the functions of viscera tend to be harmonious, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing and treating diseases.

Acupuncture therapy has many advantages:

First, it has a wide range of indications and can be used for the treatment and prevention of many diseases such as internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, ent, etc.

Second, the effect of treating diseases is relatively rapid and remarkable, especially it has good functions of stimulating physical function, improving disease resistance, sedation and analgesia;

Third, the operation method is simple and easy;

Fourth, the economy of medical expenses;

Fifth, it has no or few side effects, is basically safe and reliable, and can be combined with other therapies for comprehensive treatment.

These are also the reasons why it has always been welcomed by the people.

In the long-term medical practice, acupuncture has formed a meridian theory consisting of fourteen meridians, eight odd meridians, fifteen different meridians, twelve meridians, twelve tendons, twelve skin parts, sun collaterals, floating collaterals, etc., as well as the knowledge of acupoints such as 36 1 point and odd meridians, and discovered the specific contact law between specific parts of the human body, creating a new one.

Folding application

In the long-term medical practice, acupuncture has formed a meridian theory consisting of fourteen meridians, eight strange meridians, fifteen different meridians, twelve meridians, twelve tendons, twelve skin positions, sun collaterals and floating collaterals. And the knowledge of acupoints such as 3 1 acupoints, odd acupoints and the main diseases of acupoints, and found the law of specific relationship between specific parts of the human body.

Because of its unique advantages, wide adaptability, rapid and remarkable curative effect, simple operation method, economical medical expenses and few side effects, acupuncture in China spread to Japan, Korea, India, Arabia and other countries as early as the Tang Dynasty, and blossomed in other countries, resulting in acupuncture medicine with exotic characteristics. So far, acupuncture has spread to more than 40 countries and regions in the world, which has played a great role in ensuring the life and health of all mankind.

The scientific and cultural knowledge that acupuncture has grown up in the specific natural and social environment of China in the past dynasties contains the unique spirit, thinking and cultural essence of the Chinese nation, a lot of practical observation, knowledge system and technical skills, and embodies the strong vitality and creativity of the Chinese nation. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation and the treasure of all human civilization, which should be better protected and utilized.

Acupuncture can treat many diseases, which are used for beauty, mostly for treating adult acne and losing weight.

Principle of acupuncture and moxibustion for acne removal: According to the specific causes of acne, such as lung fire, stomach fire or spleen-stomach imbalance, a targeted acupuncture conditioning scheme is formulated to dredge meridians through treatment to achieve the purpose of acne removal and beauty. Animal acupuncture

First, the acupuncture weight loss principle

Acupuncture weight loss regulates the functions of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal cortex and sympathetic-adrenal medulla by stimulating meridian points, accelerates basal metabolic rate, thus promoting fat metabolism, increasing heat production and consuming accumulated fat; Then adjust, perfect and repair the balance of the human body itself.

Acupuncture weight loss can strengthen spleen and kidney function and help healthy qi by strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil spirits, stimulating acupoints and adjusting meridians. In addition, he can get rid of stagnation pathogens by dredging meridians, which can not only achieve the overall weight loss effect, but also eliminate local fat and achieve the purpose of partial weight loss.

1. acupuncture weight loss can effectively regulate lipid metabolism. Lipid peroxide in obese patients is higher than normal. Acupuncture can reduce the content of lipid peroxide in human body and accelerate the metabolism of fat, thus achieving the purpose of losing weight.

Second, it can correct the abnormal appetite of patients, and inhibit the excessive secretion of gastric acid through the regulation of the nervous system, so as to achieve the goal of not being tired or hungry. After acupuncture, the stomach empties slowly and the stomach is not empty. Naturally I feel full and don't want to eat too much.

Third, it is to effectively regulate endocrine disorders. The incidence of endocrine disorders in obese patients is extremely high. Why do women get fat after giving birth, not only because of overnutrition, but also because they break her endocrine balance after giving birth and cause obesity. When women reach menopause, endocrine disorders can also lead to obesity. Acupuncture weight loss's, regulating hypothalamus, pituitary gland, adrenal cortex and sympathetic adrenal cortex, correcting endocrine disorders, accelerating fat metabolism, so as to achieve the purpose of losing weight.

At present, there are many ways to lose weight, but acupuncture weight loss has a unique effect, that is, it is safe and convenient, and there is no adverse reaction. Acupuncture weight loss is different from drugs to lose weight. Drugs usually have a certain action time, while acupuncture weight loss plays an internal role by adjusting the patient's internal function, so acupuncture weight loss generally won't gain weight soon after the treatment stops. In other words, acupuncture weight loss generally won't rebound. Now acupuncture weight loss has attracted the attention of scholars at home and abroad, and it is the most effective way to lose weight healthily. In particular, acupuncture can treat obesity and simple obesity caused by endocrine disorders, which can quickly reduce excess fat, tighten the skin, and affect health. Acupuncture weight loss is suitable for those who have failed to lose weight for a long time or lost weight with drugs, and has the advantages of no need for dieting, no need for a lot of exercise, no pain in surgery, etc.

Acupuncture has a wide range of applications, including internal medicine, surgery, trauma, gynecology, pediatrics, facial features, skin and other diseases, and most of them can be treated through acupuncture. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also publicly declared that acupuncture is indeed helpful for some diseases. The following are 43 diseases that are effective in acupuncture announced by the World Health Organization (WHO), including:

( 1980)

I. Respiratory diseases

1. allergic rhinitis 2. Sinusitis III. Rhinitis 4. Cold 5. Tonsillitis 6. Acute and chronic laryngitis. Bronchitis 8. bronchial asthma

Second, ophthalmic diseases

8. Acute conjunctivitis. Central retinitis 10. Myopia 1 1. cataract

Third, oral diseases.

12. toothache 13. Pain after tooth extraction 14. gingivitis

Fourth, gastrointestinal diseases.

15. Esophageal achalasia 16. Hiccup 17. Gastroptosis 18. Acute and chronic gastritis 19. Hyperacidity. Chronic duodenal ulcer (analgesia) 2 1. Simple acute duodenal ulcer.

Five, nerve, muscle and bone diseases

27. Headache 28. Migraine 29. Trigeminal neuralgia Facial paralysis 3 1. Slight paralysis after stroke. Peripheral neuropathy. Sequelae of polio. Meniere's syndrome. Neurogenic bladder dysfunction. Enuresis 37. Intercostal neuralgia 38. Neck and arm syndrome. Shoulder coagulation 40. Tennis elbow 46543.

(The World Health Organization recommends acupuncture clinical guidelines for 43 diseases. China Metrology Publishing House. 1995)

Folding status quo

In the 1970s, taking the opportunity that China announced the research results of acupuncture anesthesia to the whole world, the international community set off an upsurge eager to understand acupuncture and apply acupuncture to treat diseases, which is a worldwide acupuncture upsurge. Due to the research on acupuncture and moxibustion, western medical circles gradually eliminated the misunderstanding of acupuncture and moxibustion, and some foreigners became interested in it and became the main force in the application, research and promotion of acupuncture and moxibustion.

In the process of internationalization of acupuncture and moxibustion, the World Health Organization has played an important role in promoting and guiding, such as establishing cooperation centers for acupuncture research and training in some countries, supporting and establishing the World Federation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, and formulating international standards for names of meridians and acupoints and standards for clinical research of acupuncture and moxibustion. At present, there are 140 countries and regions in the world, and the number of people engaged in acupuncture is about 200,000 ~ 300,000.

In the second half of the 20th century, the clinical focus of acupuncture was to observe and summarize the indications of acupuncture. In 1990s, the clinical application of acupuncture has expanded to four aspects: meridian diagnosis, acupuncture anesthesia, acupuncture health care and acupuncture treatment. Acupuncture can now treat more than 800 diseases, of which 30%~40% have remarkable therapeutic effects. Including some common diseases, functional diseases, chronic diseases, some difficult diseases and acute diseases, acupuncture is more effective.

Folding value

Because of its unique advantages, wide indications, rapid and remarkable curative effect, simple operation method, economical medical expenses and few side effects, acupuncture in China spread to Japan, Korea, India, Arabia and other countries and regions as early as the Tang Dynasty, and blossomed in other countries, resulting in some exotic acupuncture medicine. So far, acupuncture has spread to more than 40 countries and regions in the world, which has played a great role in ensuring the life and health of all mankind.

Ancient people in China used acupuncture to keep fit a long time ago. In Huangdi Neijing, doctors who master acupuncture health care technology are called "workers", and in Lingshu Inverse Shun, it is said that "workers are not born."

By the Tang Dynasty, acupuncture had occupied a considerable position in health care. For example, in Forward Fang Yao, many materials used for acupuncture and moxibustion health care are discussed. Wang Zhizhong's Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Song Dynasty recorded that acupuncture was used to prevent many diseases, such as pricking and purging the air door without carbuncle. Doctors in the Ming Dynasty also advocated acupuncture and moxibustion for health care. Gao Wu said in Acupuncture and Moxibustion Gathering English: "Acupuncture and Moxibustion should go against the trend before it comes, and meet the trend before it comes." Inverse, that is, the meaning of disease prevention. In the Qing Dynasty, Pan also expounded the health care function of acupuncture in his book Hygiene Requirements. He said: "People's viscera, meridians, qi and blood, muscles are not careful every day, and external evils are dry, which leads to illness. In ancient times, acupuncture was the foundation ... so it was beneficial to joints and qi and blood, so that the pathogenic factors could be quickly removed and restored, thus restoring the disease. "

The so-called acupuncture and moxibustion health care is to stimulate some acupoints of the human body with filiform needles, stimulate the qi of meridians, and make the human body metabolize vigorously, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening the body and prolonging life. This health care method is acupuncture health care.

Although the methods of acupuncture health care and acupuncture treatment are basically the same, the emphasis is different. Acupuncture treatment focuses on correcting the excess of yin and yang and qi and blood, while acupuncture health care focuses on strengthening the body and improving the metabolic ability of the body, with the aim of preserving health and prolonging life. It is precisely because of their different views that there are certain differences in acupoint selection and needle use. If it is used for health care, the stimulation intensity of acupuncture manipulation should be moderate, and it is not advisable to choose too many points, mainly those with strong curative effect.

Health moxibustion is one of the unique health-preserving methods in China, which can be used not only for health care, but also for the rehabilitation of long-term patients. The so-called health-care moxibustion method is to apply moxibustion on some specific acupoints of the body to achieve the purpose of harmonizing qi and blood, regulating meridians, nourishing viscera and prolonging life. "Introduction to Medicine" says: "If medicine can't reach the needle, it must be moxibustion", which shows that moxibustion can play a role that acupuncture and medicine sometimes can't. Regarding the health care function of moxibustion, it was clearly recorded in Bian Que's Heart Sutra: "When people are not sick, they often moxibustion Guanyuan, Qihai and Mingmen ... Although they are not immortal, they can still be over 100 years old."

The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20th, 2006, acupuncture was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. On June 5th, 2007, the Ministry of Culture confirmed Wang Xuetai of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and He Puren of Chinese Acupuncture Society as the representative inheritors of this cultural heritage project, and they were included in the list of 226 representative inheritors of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects.

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Folding and dredging meridians

The function of dredging meridians is to make blocked meridians unobstructed and exert their normal physiological functions, which is the most basic and direct therapeutic effect of acupuncture. Meridian "belongs to viscera in the interior and collaterals in the limbs in the exterior", and it is one of its main physiological functions to run qi and blood. The meridians are blocked, and the circulation of qi and blood is blocked. The clinical manifestations are pain, numbness, swelling, ecchymosis and other symptoms. Acupuncture selects corresponding acupoints, acupuncture techniques and pricking blood with triangular needles, so that the meridians are unobstructed and the qi and blood run normally.

Fold and reconcile yin and yang

The role of acupuncture and moxibustion in harmonizing yin and yang is to change the body from an unbalanced state of yin and yang to a balanced state, which is the ultimate goal of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment. The mechanism of the disease is very complicated, but it can be summarized as yin-yang imbalance. The function of acupuncture to reconcile yin and yang is realized through the yin and yang properties of meridians, the compatibility of meridians and acupoints and acupuncture techniques.

Folding, strengthening body resistance and eliminating evil spirits

The function of acupuncture and moxibustion is to help the human body maintain healthy qi and eliminate evil spirits. The process of disease occurrence, development and outcome is essentially a process of struggle between good and evil. Acupuncture treatment is to play its role in strengthening the body resistance and eliminating pathogenic factors.

Folding and editing the origin of acupuncture is in this paragraph.

Acupuncture therapy was first seen in Huangdi Neijing published during the Warring States Period. Huangdi Neijing said: "Cold is all diseases, so moxibustion is appropriate", which refers to moxibustion, in which the shape of nine needles is described in detail, and the theory and technology of acupuncture are described in great detail. Acupuncture has been popular in China for more than two thousand years and spread all over the world. Acupuncture appeared earlier.

In ancient times, people were accidentally hit by some sharp and hard objects, such as stones and thorns, and the accidental pain was relieved. The ancients began to consciously stab some parts of the body with some sharp stones or artificially puncture the body to make it bleed to relieve the pain. People have mastered the digging and grinding technology, and can make some exquisite stone tools suitable for piercing into the body to treat diseases. This stone tool is the oldest medical tool, Bian Shi. People use "bian Shi" to pierce a certain part of the body to treat diseases.

At that time, Bian Shi was more commonly used for incision and drainage of suppurative infection in surgery, so it was also called needle stone or stone. Shan Hai Jing said: "There is a stone like jade, which can be used as a needle", which is an early record of stone needles. Stone tablets have been found in archaeology in China. It can be said that bian stone is the foundation and predecessor of later knife needle tools.

Moxibustion in Shan Hai Jing came into being after the discovery and use of fire. In the process of using fire, people find that the pain in a certain part of the body can be relieved by burning and roasting, and then learn to wrap hot stones and sand with animal skin or bark for local hot ironing, and gradually develop to light branches or roast hay to treat diseases.

After a long period of exploration, flammable mugwort leaves with the function of warming meridians and dredging collaterals were selected as the main material for moxibustion treatment, and warm stimulation was carried out on the local part of the body surface, making moxibustion as an important method for disease prevention and treatment as acupuncture. Because Artemisia argyi leaves are flammable and fragrant, rich in resources and easy to process and preserve, they later became the most important raw material for moxibustion.

"Acupuncture" gradually developed into acupuncture, and "hot ironing" gradually developed into moxibustion, which is the predecessor of acupuncture therapy.

The traditional saying of "needle" is "needle". The word "gold" means "metal", such as gold, silver, copper and other materials. "Salty" means "sour" (see the annotation of "salty" in the interactive encyclopedia). The combination of "gold" and "salty" means: "an instrument that produces a sour feeling. It is not excluded that the ancients used fried bamboo needles as disposable needles. This kind of bamboo needle is called "needle", and the word "salty" in its glyph still means "acid".