Later doctors constantly enriched the content of bloodletting therapy in clinical practice. For example, "Qian Jin Fang" says: "People with stomachache are sickly. Hungry but unable to eat, but full after eating. ..... Stab the foot in the Taiyin, and Yangming will bleed in the horizontal collateral. " During the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Zhang wrote the monograph "Bleeding due to eye diseases, the most acute head wind", which discussed the understanding and clinical application of bloodletting, which was widely circulated among the people and used by the masses.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the dysfunction of zang-fu organs and meridians and qi and blood are the root causes of diseases. Bloodletting therapy reaches the meridians through "regulating blood and regulating qi", so as to harmonize viscera and qi and restore normal physiological functions of human body. Bloodletting therapy is simple and low-cost, which is very popular with patients.
Function and scope of application of bloodletting therapy
Antipyretic effect
Chinese medicine believes that there are two main types of fever, one is yang-excess fever, and the other is yin-deficiency fever. The antipyretic effect of bloodletting is suitable for the former. Because the yang is strong, the blood will be full, and bloodletting can reduce the blood, thus reducing the evil heat in the blood and making the qi and blood of the body tend to be normal.
Analgesic effect Chinese medicine believes that "the general principle is painless" and "the pain is unreasonable". This means that a disease with pain symptoms must be blocked in its meridians. Bloodletting therapy can directly bring out the pathogenic factors of blood stasis in meridians, adjust the blocking situation, make meridians unblocked and relieve pain immediately. Many acute diseases in clinic, such as sore throat and migraine, can get good results quickly with bloodletting therapy.
detoxify
Detoxification in traditional Chinese medicine refers to the symptoms that the body can't resist toxic pathogens because of its own dysfunction under pathological conditions, such as "red furuncle" caused by excessive toxic fire, ulcers and carbuncle caused by toxic pathogens. Bleeding can not only make the toxic pathogens invading the body be discharged with the blood, but more importantly, it can restore the normal function of the human body through the function of "regulating blood and regulating qi" and inhibit the expansion and regeneration of diseases and pathogens.
purge sb the excessive internal heat
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) believes that hot internal disturbance can cause many diseases, which are often manifested as upset, sore mouth and tongue, pain and swelling of limbs, impatience and irritability, and even symptoms such as fever, dizziness and delirium. Bloodletting therapy can directly cause pathogenic fire to descend with blood, which is suitable for various heat syndromes.
Detumescence effect
The swelling and pain are mostly caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis, which makes the meridians impassable. Bloodletting can directly eliminate qi and blood stasis and evil spirits in local meridians, promote the smoothness of meridians, and thus achieve the purpose of detumescence.
The antipruritic effect is the manifestation that a cold exists in the blood, so there is a treatment principle of "treating the wind first, treating the blood, and the blood will extinguish itself". Bleeding is to regulate qi and blood, so that blood vessels are unobstructed and forced, and there is no hiding place for colds, thus achieving the effect of dispelling wind and relieving itching.
Relieve numbness
Qi deficiency can't make blood reach the end of four seasons, or blood deficiency can't be nourished, so numbness symptoms often appear. Acupuncture with filiform needle at acupoints of the affected limb can make it bleed a little and treat numbness. Guided by the theory of promoting blood circulation and qi circulation, the effect is good.
Antiemetic effect
Acute vomiting is mostly caused by excessive stomach heat or excessive liver qi attacking the stomach or food stagnation. Hemorrhage can purge heat and calm liver qi stagnation, and has the function of dredging gastrointestinal stagnation downward, so it can inhibit vomiting and stop vomiting.
Antidiarrheal effect
The scope of application of diarrhea bloodletting therapy generally refers to heat diarrhea caused by gastrointestinal stagnation, or diarrhea caused by epidemic disease, which causes turbidity. Its mechanism is to purge fire and reduce heat, so as to achieve the effect of raising clear and reducing turbidity.
First aid function
The so-called first aid function refers to unconscious sudden fainting and convulsions. Bleeding can improve blood circulation, which is a very good and effective rescue method.
Types of bloodletting therapy
Slow needling: suitable for intravenous bloodletting. Such as Qu Ze, Wei Zhong and Sun. When using, you should first tie the rubber band in the acupuncture position. The performer holds a triangular needle in his right hand and points it at the acupoint or vein, then slowly penetrates 0.5~ 1, and then slowly withdraws the needle. When the black blood turns red, you can untie the rubber band and wipe the pinhole with a sterile cotton ball for a while.
Quick needling: suitable for sore throat, red eyes, heatstroke, stroke and other diseases. Sore throat stings less business; Ten points for attention in acupuncture for heatstroke; Stroke pricks twelve wells and other points. When inserting a needle, first hold the acupuncture point to be inserted with your thumb, forefinger and middle finger. Hold a triangular needle or a filigree needle in your right hand and quickly pierce 0. 5~ 1 min, immediately pull out the needle, and then squeeze the local area by hand to make it bleed.
Pick-and-prick: This needling method is suitable for acupuncture points with shallow muscles of hands, chest, back or head. When acupuncture, aim at the local rash point, hold the muscles around the rash point with the left hand, and bleed horizontally with the triangular needle in the right hand.
Zhou points: Suitable for carbuncle, joint pain, plague and other diseases. Use a triangular needle to give a few or dozens of stitches around the swelling, then gently squeeze or draw blood by cupping with both hands, so that evil blood can be discharged to relieve swelling and pain.
Close needling: suitable for skin diseases, such as stubborn tinea. When stabbing, buckle the affected area with plum blossom needle to make the local bleeding slight.
Matters needing attention in bloodletting therapy
Before bloodletting, the patient's mental worries should be relieved, and it is best to lie down and observe the patient's reaction and complexion at any time.
Because the needle hole is large after acupuncture, it must be strictly disinfected to prevent infection.
Be sharp in tit-for-tat, don't use too much force when acupuncture, and don't stab the artery.
This method is not suitable for women with weak qi and blood, postpartum and spontaneous bleeding tendency, or bleeding after trauma. (Li, a native of yinan county, Shandong.
"bloodletting therapy" of traditional acupuncture