The "yin leads to yang" and "yang leads to yin" acupuncture methods

The meridian points are the foundation of acupuncture, and acupuncture techniques are the guarantee of the efficacy of acupuncture. There are many different kinds of acupuncture techniques, but the general outline is nothing more than the "deficiency is tonic, solid is diarrhea", which leads to a variety of guiding principles. Among them, "from the yin to attract yang", "from the yang to attract yin" acupuncture techniques are not to be ignored, the following we will talk about some of the use of experience.

"From Yin to Yang", "from Yang to Yin" acupuncture technique is the application of the theory of yin and Yang in acupuncture, the traditional understanding is mostly from the point of view of the selection of points to understand.

The nature of the disease has both yin and yang, and the location of the acupoints also has both yin and yang, so the so-called "from yin to lead yang" refers to the treatment of pathological nature of the disease is Yang, the selection of acupuncture points need to take the yin meridian of the acupoints, and "from yang to lead yin" refers to the treatment of pathological nature of the disease is yin, the selection of acupuncture points need to take the yang meridian of the acupoints. The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the points that you have to take in order to get to the top of the list.

For example, the five visceral diseases are mostly Yin disease, then you can choose the back of the Yang Yu points to treat; six visceral diseases disease is Yang, you can choose the Yin side of the collection of points to treat.

The traditional explanation is to understand from the point of view of the selection of points, in fact, this concept can also be understood from the level of acupuncture, if the two will be combined, often the effect will be better.

We all know that an acupuncture point has a certain depth of needling, the so-called "spring and summer stabbing shallow, autumn and winter stabbing deep" can also be understood from the yin and yang properties. The surface of the shallow for Yang, deep for Yin. Then, if the level of depth alone to understand this technique is very easy.

"From yin to lead yang" means needling the yin side of the point to the deep part of the point, after the deep part of the qi, so that the qi feeling under the needle to the opposite side of the yang part of the deep, or let the needle feeling in the yang part of the transmission, and then finally with the patient's breathing slowly lifting the needle to the shallow part of the point, leaving the needle or not, according to the needs of the condition of the discretionary choice.

"From the yang to lead the yin" means that the acupuncture point on the yang side to the shallow part of the acupuncture point, in the shallow part of the qi and then deep stabbing to the deep part of the acupuncture point, so that the qi under the needle deep to the opposite side of the yin part, or let the needle feeling in the deep transmission, and finally with the patient's breathing and quickly lifting the needle to the shallow part of the acupuncture point, leaving the needle or not, according to the condition of the need for discretionary choice.

This acupuncture technique focuses on the doctor's perception of the needle under the needle, to grasp the level of acupuncture, within the safe range to experience the movement of qi and blood under the needle, through the intervention of acupuncture needles and thus guide the flow of qi and blood to the desired level.

This technique is still very common in the clinic, for example, in abdominal distension where it is necessary to use the yin to guide the yang. Once a 50-year-old female patient, abdominal distension for more than 2 years, after the dialectic, for the solid heat evidence, the nature of the disease is yang, take the epigastric point, with a 4-inch acupuncture needle, the first deep stabbing to the deep epigastric point, in the depth of the qi, the twisting diarrhea, and then with the patient's breath out of the needle slowly pull out, do not leave the needle.

When the needle is twisted in the deep part of the acupuncture point, the patient can have the sensory phenomenon of up and down conduction from the back of the spine; when the needle is slowly pulled out from the deep part of the acupuncture point, the doctor can feel that the needle is suctioned, and with the shallow out of the body of the needle, the feeling of gas is like being pulled out. This is the main operation of the "yin and yang" acupuncture technique.

This patient, after two needling sessions, the bloating was reduced by three-quarters, and the needling was continued, and the bloating was completely eliminated after 5 sessions of needling. Although the patient had been treated with acupuncture before, the depth of the needles did not reach the required level, and could not lead the yang qi to the abdominal surface, and could not expel the evil qi from the abdomen, thus failing to achieve the desired effect.

The application of the "yang Yin" is relatively small, mainly because the yang part of the acupuncture points such as the back of the acupoints can not be too deep stabbing, and do not need to be deep stabbing. The most common application is the use of the large vertebrae point for fever, the first needle in the shallow part of the gas, quickly stabbed into the deep part of the twisting gas, the needle quickly pulled out, do not press the needle hole, such as if the bleeding effect is better.

The above is "from the yin to attract yang", "from the yang to attract yin" acupuncture techniques experience, for acupuncture, grasp the general principle, and then in the clinical experience, speculate, summarize, and thus deduce, verify the efficacy of the treatment, in order to improve their own technology, after all, acupuncture is a door technology, requires a lot of time, but it's not the only one. Acupuncture is a technology, the need is to be able to produce a healing effect on the disease, not those fancy theoretical research, effective is the king.