Acupuncture has a long history and has a good curative effect on many diseases. Nowadays, with the improvement of people's health awareness, the application of acupuncture is more and more extensive. So, what is acupuncture? How much do you know? Liu Lili, deputy director and chief physician of Tuina Department of Dezhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, introduced this ancient and magical therapy.
"Acupuncture is a combination of acupuncture and moxibustion. It is a medical skill of "treating internal diseases externally". Through the conduction of meridians and acupoints, certain operating methods are applied to treat systemic diseases. " According to Liu Lili, the needling method is to pierce the filiform needle into a certain point of the patient's body, and use acupuncture techniques such as twisting and lifting to adjust the qi and blood of the camp and guard the treatment. Moxibustion is to smoke and burn moxa on the skin according to certain acupoints, and use thermal stimulation to treat diseases, so as to achieve the purpose of warming meridians and regulating qi and blood.
"Acupuncture therapy has the effects of dredging meridians, reconciling yin and yang, strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil spirits." Liu Lili explained that 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. The curative effect is rapid and remarkable, and it has good functions of stimulating body function, improving disease resistance, sedation and analgesia. The operation method is simple and easy; Saving of medical expenses; No or few side effects, basically safe and reliable, and can be combined with other therapies for comprehensive treatment.
Scope of application of acupuncture therapy:
1, respiratory diseases: sinusitis, rhinitis, cold, tonsillitis, acute and chronic laryngitis, tracheitis and bronchial asthma;
2. Diseases of digestive system: achalasia of esophagus and cardia, hiccups, gastroptosis, acute and chronic gastritis, hyperacidity, chronic duodenal ulcer (analgesia), simple acute duodenal ulcer, acute and chronic colitis, acute and chronic bacillary dysentery, constipation, diarrhea and intestinal paralysis;
3. Otolaryngology diseases: acute conjunctivitis, central retinitis, myopia, cataract, dry eye, optic atrophy, oculomotor nerve paralysis, tinnitus and deafness;
4, gynecological diseases: irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea;
5. Nerve, muscle and bone diseases: headache, insomnia, migraine, trigeminal neuralgia, facial paralysis, mild paralysis after stroke, peripheral nerve diseases, sequela of poliomyelitis, Meniere's syndrome, nerve ladder dysfunction, enuresis, intercostal neuralgia, neck-arm syndrome, scapulohumeral periarthritis, tennis elbow, sciatica, low back pain and arthritis. (Sun Xin 'ai, Zuo, Yan Wang)