The mechanism of pricking collaterals is to puncture blood collaterals and acupoints with a triangular needle, release a proper amount of blood, or a small amount of body fluids, or rupture subcutaneous fibrous tissue, so as to achieve the functions of promoting qi circulation and blood circulation, relieving swelling and pain, purging heat and inducing resuscitation. Clinically, it is mainly used to treat obesity such as qi stagnation syndrome, blood stasis syndrome and excess heat syndrome. In addition, pricking collaterals therapy has a good effect on intractable diseases, and it is a special external treatment for diseases.
Collateral needling therapy is a wonderful flower in China traditional medicine, which has a history of thousands of years. Various ancient medical books have long recorded that pricking collaterals and bloodletting can cure chronic diseases: "those who prick needles have triangular blades" (Lingshu. Nine needles and twelve origins). Anyone who treats diseases must draw blood first "("Wen Li "). Blood and gas form "). Today, with the high development of modern medicine, pricking collaterals still has its place, and its incredible curative effect has been widely accepted by modern people. Especially in the field of weight loss, it has become an indispensable "weapon" for weight loss.
1. Basic operation method of pricking collaterals method
Acupuncture requires a special needle to operate. This kind of needle meal consists of triangular needles and thick needles, but triangular needles are the majority. Now the triangular needle is stainless steel, the needle body is triangular cone, the triangular needle is the blade, and the peak is extremely sharp. Triangular needles can be divided into three types: large, medium and small, which can be selected according to the needs of operators. Strict disinfection is required before use to prevent wound infection. The use of triangular needle is very simple. When the pregnant woman holds the needle in her right hand, hold the middle part of the needle handle with her thumb and forefinger, and the middle finger is close to the needle body. As long as 2~3 cm is exposed, the needle can be operated.
There are four ways to operate the triangular needle, that is, point needling, cluster needling, scattered needling and pick needling.
(1) perforation method
Acupoint method is the most commonly used method, which mainly uses acupuncture points and blood collaterals. Acupoint acupuncture can be divided into two types: point needling and collateral needling.
1. Acupoint acupuncture
Acupoint, that is, pricking the acupoint with a triangular needle to make the acupoint bleed or squeeze out a small amount of liquid. Before pricking, push the selected points or acupoints so that blood can gather at the pricking points. After routine disinfection, hold the needle in your right hand to quickly puncture the selected acupoint, and then quickly pull out the needle. Acupoint depth should not be too shallow, which will affect the curative effect. Usually can squeeze out a few drops of blood and a small amount of liquid. This method is mainly used for acupoints such as ear tip, face and toe, such as Tang Yin, Xue Jing, zhu cun, Xuan Shi and the tip of ear.
Step 2: Pricking blood
Xueluo point refers to the vein that appears due to disease. Blood loss by pricking collaterals is much greater than that by acupoints, generally at least 5~ 10 ml. Collateral puncture can be divided into shallow puncture and deep puncture.
Shallow needling method: mainly needling superficial veins exposed by illness. The operator holds the needle in his right hand and pricks vertically, which is fast, stable and accurate. The amount of superficial puncture bleeding is about 5~ 10 ml. Mainly used for superficial arteries of forehead, temporal lobe, ear back, foot back and lower limb back caused by diseases.
Deep needling: The amount of bleeding from deep needling is much larger, generally between tens of milliliters and even hundreds of milliliters. Before puncture, tie the proximal end of the puncture site with sterile rubber tube. When the corresponding vein appears, after routine disinfection, hold the right hand to aim at the vein and quickly stab it in the direction of the heart, and then quickly let the blood flow naturally. At this time, you can loosen the rubber tube, and after the bleeding stops, press the pinhole with sterile dry cotton balls, and clean the skin around the wound with 75% alcohol cotton balls. It is mainly used for bloodletting treatment of cubital fossa and popliteal fossa veins.
(2) Pricking
Cluster needling, that is, repeatedly stabbing a smaller part with a triangular needle, makes the stabbed part slightly bleed naturally. This method is often used in conjunction with cupping, that is, pricking and cupping. Mainly used for removing blood stasis, reducing swelling and suppurating.
(3) scattered needle method
The scattered needling method is basically similar to the cluster needling method, but the needling area is larger and the needling distance is longer. The acupuncture area of this method generally depends on the size of the lesion, and it can be continuously vertical acupuncture 10~20 times or more. When acupuncture, the peripheral edge of the focus should be acupuncture in the central circulation to promote the discharge of blood stasis and edema.
(4) Picking and stabbing method
Pricking is the development of pricking technology, which mainly selects the abnormal points of some diseases on the skin-related parts of the body surface to prick, showing tenderness, acid difficulty, papules, subcutaneous nodules and so on. When needling, after local disinfection, press and fix the skin with your left hand, hold the small triangular needle with your right hand, insert the needle obliquely, gently lift the fibrous substances under the acupoints to pick them, generally ranging from ten to dozens, and try to squeeze out a little blood, which will be better. After the ligation, wipe off the blood, cover the wound with disinfectant dressing and fix it. Acupoints for picking pricks can be selected from meridian points, Ashi points and odd points, but Ashi points are more common.
2. Prevent abnormal stab wounds.
Collateral needling therapy is a safe and reliable external treatment with few adverse reactions, so there are few abnormal situations. Even if there is, it is also caused by poor technology and operational errors.
The most likely abnormal condition of pricking collaterals is postoperative hematoma. The reason why there is hematoma after puncture is purely caused by accidental injury to the artery. Because the puncture mainly acts on arterioles, if the puncture site is carefully selected during the operation, the puncture should not be too deep, and hematoma can be completely avoided.
Secondly, a very small number of patients will have an abnormal reaction of "fainting blood". Because pricking collaterals is the most characteristic bloodletting, sometimes the amount of bloodletting is quite large. If different patients explain clearly before operation, this abnormal situation is very likely to happen.
In addition, in order to avoid abnormal conditions, general weakness, obvious anemia, spontaneous bleeding tendency and pregnant women should use this therapy with caution or not.
3. Differentiation and treatment of pricking collaterals to lose weight
Pricking collaterals to lose weight is to achieve the purpose of losing weight by stimulating corresponding acupoints, dredging meridians, balancing yin and yang, adjusting viscera and running qi and blood. Therefore, it is necessary to differentiate obesity, find out the reasons for losing weight and choose appropriate acupoints in order to achieve the ideal effect. Therefore, syndrome differentiation and classification are particularly important for syndrome treatment and weight loss by puncturing collaterals.
Blood-pricking and cupping therapy is prohibited for heart failure, malignant tumor, active tuberculosis, mental patients, hemorrhagic diseases, pregnant women, acute infectious diseases and the elderly and infirm.