Fever is generally caused by pathogen infection, including viruses, bacteria, rickettsia and so on. Inflammatory reaction occurs in the body. At this time, the body's immunity plays a role in fighting pathogens, and the immune system plays a fighting mechanism. Because this principle should be similar to the so-called scraping in traditional Chinese medicine, especially the Shaoshang point where fingers prick.

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, bloodletting therapy can activate human immune system, regulate human internal environment and play a certain role in reducing fever. Especially for self-limited diseases, viral cold medicine can't directly kill the virus. At this time, the virus can be eliminated through the body's own immunity, so as to achieve the effect of curing the disease, and the fever will naturally subside.

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The earliest written records of bloodletting therapy in traditional Chinese medicine can be found in Huangdi Neijing, such as "those who stab collaterals stab the blood vessels of small collaterals"; "Chen is removed and evil blood is also produced." It is clearly pointed out that pricking collaterals and bloodletting can treat madness, headache, rage, heat asthma, epistaxis and other diseases.

According to legend, bloodletting at Baihui point cured Prince Guo's "corpse syncope" and Hua Tuo treated Cao Cao's "head wind syndrome" with acupuncture bloodletting. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, this therapy has become a major principle of Chinese medicine.

In the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Zhang's medical records about acupuncture in The Scholars were almost all about acupuncture and bloodletting to get the effect, and he thought that acupuncture and bloodletting was the fastest way to attack evil. From the Ming and Qing Dynasties, bloodletting was very popular and acupuncture developed rapidly. Triangular needle can be divided into coarse needle and fine needle, which is more suitable for clinical application. Now disposable acupuncture is more suitable for clinical application and people's self-treatment.

Yang Jizhou's "Acupuncture Dacheng" recorded the medical records of acupuncture and bloodletting in detail. Ye used this therapy to cure throat diseases; Zhao Xuemin and Wu Shangxian collected many bloodletting therapies and compiled them into a series of exquisite versions and Li Long's parallel prose.

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With the development of medicine, bloodletting therapy has basically withdrawn from the historical stage. But there are still a few bloodletting therapies, such as Chinese medicine or Tibetan medicine. In western medicine, it is also a routine and effective treatment to use medical leech to absorb blood stasis near the swelling block.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-bloodletting therapy