What the heck is acupuncture in Chinese medicine?

Acupuncture is a uniquely Chinese means of treating disease. It is a kind of "from the outside to cure the inside" treatment method. It is through the role of meridians, acupoints, and the application of certain techniques to treat systemic diseases. In the clinic, according to the diagnosis and treatment method of Chinese medicine, diagnose the cause of the disease, find out the key of the disease, identify the nature of the disease, determine which meridian belongs to the lesion, which viscera, identify it as belonging to the surface and inside, cold and heat, deficiency and solidity of the type of diagnosis, to make a diagnosis. Then the corresponding prescription points for treatment. To pass through the meridians, adjusting qi and blood, so that yin and yang to a relative balance, so that the internal organs tend to harmonize, so as to achieve the purpose of disease prevention and treatment. Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy is part of the heritage of the motherland medicine, but also a unique national medical method. Dry a hundred years, the defense of health, reproduction of the nation, there has been an outstanding contribution, until now, still bear the task, for the masses of faith.

Acupuncture and moxibustion consists of "needles" and "moxibustion", is one of the important parts of Chinese medicine, which includes the theory of acupuncture and moxibustion, acupuncture points, acupuncture and moxibustion technology and related equipment, in the process of the formation, application and development, has a distinctive Chinese culture and regional characteristics, is based on the Chinese culture and regional characteristics, is based on the Chinese culture and culture, is a unique national medical method. In the process of formation, application and development, it has distinctive Chinese national and regional characteristics, and is a valuable heritage based on the cultural and scientific traditions of the Chinese nation.

Origin

Acupuncture and moxibustion were first described in the book "Huangdi Neijing" more than two thousand years ago. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine refers to the art of moxibustion when it says, "When the cold is hidden and the fullness of the disease is born, its treatment should be moxibustion," which describes in detail the shape of the nine needles and extensively describes the theories and techniques of acupuncture. For more than two thousand years, acupuncture has been popular in China and spread to the world. And acupuncture appeared even earlier.

In ancient times, people were accidentally hit by some sharp and hard objects, such as stones, thorns, etc. on the surface of the body of a certain part of the phenomenon, there will be an unexpected pain was alleviated. Ancient people began to consciously use some sharp stones to stab certain parts of the body or artificially puncture the body to make it bleed, in order to alleviate the pain. Ancient books have repeatedly mentioned that the primitive tool for needling was a stone needle, called a stone acupuncture. This stone appeared about 8,000 to 4,000 years ago in the Neolithic era, equivalent to the late clan communal system, people have mastered the digging, grinding technology, able to produce some relatively delicate, suitable for piercing the body to treat diseases of the stone tool, this stone is the oldest medical tool stone. People used "stone" to stab a certain part of the body to treat diseases. At that time, the stone was also more commonly used in surgical septic infections of the incision and drainage of pus, so it is also known as the needle stone or stone. The Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), which says: "There is a stone like jade, which can be used as a needle", is an early record of stone needles. In China, stone acupuncture has been found in archaeology. It can be said that acupuncture stone is the foundation and predecessor of later generations of knife and needle tools.

Moxibustion arose after the discovery and use of fire. In the process of using fire, people found that a part of the body of the disease by the fire burning, baking and can be relieved or lifted, and then learned to use animal skin or bark wrapped in hot stones, sand for local hot ironing, and gradually developed to ignite the branches or hay baking to treat the disease. After a long period of exploration, choose the easy to burn and have the effect of warm through the meridians as the main material of moxibustion, localized on the surface of the body for warm stimulation, so that moxibustion and acupuncture, as an important method of disease prevention and treatment. Because of the easy to burn, fragrant odor, rich resources, easy to process storage and other characteristics, and thus later became the most important raw materials for moxibustion.

"Counseling and stabbing" gradually developed into acupuncture, "hot and ironing" gradually developed into moxibustion, which is the predecessor of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy.

The history of acupuncture

According to the ancient literature "Classic of the Mountains and the Sea" and "Nei Jing", it is useful to use "stone" to puncture the carbuncle records, as well as the "Yu Zi": "seven years of disease, seek three years of Ai," according to the statement, and then according to the recent years in various parts of our country Based on the historical artifacts excavated in recent years in various parts of China, we can prove that the origin of "acupuncture and moxibustion therapy" may be in the Stone Age.

Acupuncture is an ancient and miraculous science. As early as the 6th century AD, acupuncture began to spread abroad. At present, in Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America and so on there have been more than 120 countries and regions applying acupuncture for their own people to cure the disease, many countries have also set up acupuncture academic societies, acupuncture educational institutions and research institutes, the famous University of Paris School of Medicine on the opening of acupuncture classes. It is reported that acupuncture treatment is effective in 307 kinds of diseases, of which there are more than 100 kinds of significant effect. 1980, the United Nations World Health Organization put forward 43 kinds of recommended acupuncture treatment of diseases. 1987, the World Acupuncture Federation was formally established in Beijing, acupuncture as the status of the world as a common medicine in the world medical forest can be established.

Two and a half thousand years ago, China gave birth to the first medical masterpiece, the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (HUNDI), in which an important concept runs through the entire book, that is, meridians. Meridian is a general term for meridians and veins, the ancients found that the human body has a number of longitudinal routes throughout the body, called meridians; and found that there are some branches on these major trunk lines, and there are smaller branches on the branches, the ancients said that these branches for the veins, the "veins" is the concept of the structure of the umbrella.

With the development of smelting technology, people made metal needles, called microneedles, and used them to treat the meridians. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is divided into two books, one of which is called the Ling Shu Jing, also known as the Needle Jing, a work devoted to the treatment of meridians with microneedles. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine systematically summarizes the meridians and adds new concepts to the meridians, such as collateral veins, meridians, meridian tendons, skin, and odd meridians, which ****together comprise the meridian system, making it the most important physiological structure of the human body in the minds of the ancients. Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine also explains the functions of the meridians, namely, the operation of qi and blood, balancing yin and yang, moistening the tendons and bones, slippery joints, contacting the internal organs and the surface and up and down, as well as the transmission of diseases and evils, and so on. The Huangdi Neijing's understanding of the meridian system and its function mainly comes from long-term clinical observation, but also contains some results of reasoning and analysis and the description of analogies.

The study of acupuncture and moxibustion is an important part of acupuncture and moxibustion medicine, and it is a basic skill that must be mastered in the clinical treatment of acupuncture and moxibustion diseases. Generations of acupuncture and moxibustion scientists in the long-term medical practice, accumulated a wealth of clinical experience and theoretical knowledge, is the content of acupuncture and moxibustion method is constantly enriched, the theory of continuous improvement, for the development of this discipline has laid a theoretical and practical foundation.

The main acupuncture and moxibustion method

★Hairpin method

★Moxibustion: moxa or other drugs placed on the body surface of the acupoints on the parts of the cauterization, warm ironing, through the moxibustion fire of the mild heat as well as the role of the drug, through the meridian of the conduction, to play the warmth of the qi and blood, support the positive and eliminate the evil, and achieve the purpose of treatment of disease and preventive health care of a kind of external treatment method.

★Cupping method: the application of various methods to exclude the canister air to form negative pressure, so that it adsorption of the surface of the body in order to treat the disease method. Also known as suction tube therapy, cupping method. In ancient times, there are made of animal horns, called horn method. Through sucking and plucking, it can lead to local tissue congestion or blood depletion, prompting the meridians and collaterals to be smooth and the qi and blood to be vigorous, with the effect of activating blood circulation, relieving pain and swelling, dispersing cold, removing dampness, dispersing knots and pulling out toxins, and relieving fever, and so on.

★Other methods of stabbing

Three-pronged needling, skin needling, intradermal needling, fire needling, arrows needling, electro-acupuncture.

★Modern Acupuncture and Moxibustion:

Auricular Acupuncture, Head Acupuncture, Eye Acupuncture, Hand Acupuncture, Foot Acupuncture, Wrist and Ankle Acupuncture

Sound Wave Electroacupuncture, Electro-Fire Acupuncture, Microwave Acupuncture

Acupuncture Laser Irradiation, Acupuncture Patch, Acupuncture Embedded Threading, Acupuncture Magnetic Therapy, Acupuncture Injections

Acupuncture Points Pointer, Acupuncture Point Ion Transmission Method. Acupuncture point cutting method, acupuncture point ligation method A health care technique. Includes acupuncture and moxibustion. Acupuncture is a needle-shaped tool, piercing or pressure points or diseased parts of the health care method; moxibustion is a burning moxa or other combustible materials, warm or burning points or diseased parts of the health care method. These two are often used in conjunction with each other in clinical practice, and together they are called "acupuncture and moxibustion".

Characteristics of acupuncture

Acupuncture and moxibustion is a unique medical treatment created by the ancient working people of China. Acupuncture and moxibustion consists of "needles" and "moxibustion", is one of the important parts of Chinese medicine, the content of which includes the theory of acupuncture and moxibustion, acupuncture points, acupuncture and moxibustion technology and related equipment, in the process of the formation, application and development of the process of the distinctive cultural and regional characteristics of the Chinese people, is based on the Chinese people's cultural and scientific traditions of the generation of a valuable heritage.

Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy is characterized by the fact that the cure does not depend on medication, but only on the patient's body in a certain part of the body with needles, or with the warmth of the fire to stimulate the localization of the cauterization, in order to achieve the purpose of curing the disease. The former is called acupuncture and the latter is called moxibustion, collectively referred to as acupuncture and moxibustion therapy.

Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy in the clinic, according to Chinese medicine diagnosis of the cause of the disease, to find out the key to the disease, to identify the nature of the disease, to determine the lesion belongs to which meridian, which viscera, to identify it belongs to the table, cold and heat, in the real in the type, to make a diagnosis. Then the corresponding prescription points for treatment. To pass through the meridians, adjusting qi and blood, so that yin and yang to a relative balance, so that the internal organs tend to function in harmony, so as to achieve the purpose of disease prevention and treatment.

Acupuncture therapy has many advantages: first, there is a wide range of indications, can be used for internal, external, gynecology, pediatrics, the five senses and other disciplines of the treatment and prevention of a variety of diseases; second, the effect of the treatment of disease is relatively rapid and significant, especially with a good excitement of the body's functions to improve resistance to disease and the role of sedative, analgesic; third, the operation method is simple and easy to carry out; fourth, the medical cost of the economy; fifth, no or very few side effects, basically the same. No or very few side effects, basically safe and reliable, and can be synergized with other therapies for integrated treatment. These are also the reasons why it is always welcomed by the people.

Acupuncture and moxibustion in the long-term medical practice, formed by the fourteen meridians, odd meridians, fifteen other channels, twelve meridians, twelve meridian tendons, twelve skin, as well as the Sun Luo, Floating Luo and other components of the theory of meridians, as well as 361 acupoints, as well as extra-meridian acupuncture points, such as acupoints and acupoints and the main disease of the knowledge of acupoints, and discovered the law of the body between specific parts of the law of the specific connection, created the meridian theory, and thus produced a set of system of methods for treating diseases.

Is acupuncture painful

Whether or not acupuncture is painful depends on two aspects, one is the doctor and the other is the patient.

Generally speaking, acupuncture into the human body will produce acid, numbness, swelling, heavy, pain and other sensations, these are the reaction of the needle qi, is a good performance, is the test of this acupuncture whether "qualified" an indicator, if the needle into the human body does not have any feeling, it means that this acupuncture is "The doctor's needling technique is questionable.

A good doctor, his needle into the patient's body, will make the patient's local or acid, or numbness, or swelling, or heavy, or pain, this feeling is not present in the patient's epidermis, this feeling comes from the tip of the needle to the part, a good acupuncture doctor, will make the tip of the needle to a large area to produce these sensations, to produce the feeling of the part can reach a diameter of 5 centimeters, or even larger. or even larger. This feeling is a very comfortable feeling, a feeling of picking up a dull disease, a feeling of massaging and flicking a strained shoulder or back.

A doctor with a poor technique will bring the patient pain when entering the needle, and pain when traveling the needle, which is a very uncomfortable pain, and this pain is in the superficial layer of the skin, a kind of tingling that pulls on the skin, which is not the same as the "pain" that feels very comfortable in the above mentioned areas. The pain occurs in the deeper layers, where the tip of the needle goes, where the disease is.

Of course, a relaxed patient will cooperate with the doctor's needles, reducing the probability of pain from needling. A patient who is very tense is going to have that bad pain a lot.

So the pain of acupuncture, not absolute, good pain can relieve the patient's pain. The bad pain is caused by the patient's tension and the doctor's poor technique.

If you are able to do acupuncture with total relaxation and get a good acupuncturist to stick the needles, then you basically won't be bothered by the pain!

Application of acupuncture

Acupuncture and moxibustion in the long-term medical practice, the formation of the theory of meridians and collaterals consisting of fourteen meridians, odd meridians and eight collaterals, fifteen other collaterals, twelve meridians, twelve meridians, twelve skin parts, as well as the Sun Luo, Floating Luo, and so on, as well as 361 acupoints, as well as extra-meridian qi points, such as the acupoints and the main diseases of the acupoints and acupoints of the knowledge of the disease, the discovery of the law of the particular connection between the specific parts of the human body, the creation of the meridian theory, and from this came a system of methods for treating diseases.

Because of the unique advantages of acupuncture therapy, a wide range of adaptability, rapid and significant therapeutic effect, simple and easy to operate, economic medical costs, minimal side effects, as far away as the Tang Dynasty, Chinese acupuncture has spread to Japan, Korea, India, Arabia and other countries and regions, and blossomed in other countries, multiplying a number of exotic features of the acupuncture and moxibustion medicine. So far, acupuncture has spread to more than one hundred and forty countries and regions in the world, and has played a great role in safeguarding the life and health of all mankind.

Acupuncture and moxibustion is a scientific and cultural knowledge grown up in the specific natural and social environment of China over the ages, containing the unique spirit, thinking and cultural essence of the Chinese nation, encompassing a large number of practical observations, knowledge systems and technical skills, and cohesion of the Chinese nation's strong vitality and creativity, is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation, and also the treasures of the civilization of all mankind, which should be protected and utilized in a better way. It should be better protected and utilized.

Acupuncture can treat many conditions and is used for cosmetic purposes, most often for adult acne and weight loss.

Acupuncture acne principle: according to each person's specific cause of acne, such as lung fire, stomach fire or spleen and stomach disorders, etc., targeted development of acupuncture conditioning program, through the treatment of disease, to achieve the meridian smooth, and achieve the purpose of removing acne beauty.

The principle of acupuncture to lose weight: it is actually to restrain your appetite, so that you eat less, coupled with exercise, you can lose weight. Acupuncture weight loss has contraindications: the following three categories of patients and there are some special conditions, is not suitable to receive acupuncture weight loss: 1, heart disease patients; 2, two, three stage of hypertension patients; 3, diabetic patients; 4, fasting, fatigue, severe sweating, exercise accompanied by sweating and other states, can not be immediately accept the acupuncture weight loss, should be postponed, or change the time.

Acupuncture treatment has a wide range of adaptations, such as internal, external, injury, gynecology, pediatrics, the five senses, skin and other disciplines of many diseases, most of the application of acupuncture to treat, the World Health Organization (WHO) has also publicly announced that acupuncture is really helpful for some of the diseases. The following is a list of 43 kinds of diseases that the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that acupuncture is effective, including:

(1980)

I. Respiratory diseases

1, sinusitis, 2, rhinitis, 3, colds, 4, tonsillitis 5, acute and chronic laryngitis. 6, bronchitis 7, bronchial asthma;

Two, ophthalmic diseases

8, acute conjunctivitis 9, central retinitis 10, myopia 11, cataracts;

Three, stomatological diseases

12, toothache 13, post-extraction pain 14, gingivitis;

Four, gastrointestinal system diseases

15, esophagus , portal dysentery 16, eructation 17, gastroptosis 18, acute and chronic gastritis 19, gastric acidosis 20, chronic duodenal ulcer (pain retardation

solution) 21, simple acute duodenal ulceritis 22, acute and chronic colitis 23, acute (chronic) bacillary dysentery 24, constipation 25, diarrhea 26,

Intestinal palsy;

five, Neurologic, musculoskeletal, and skeletal disorders

27, Headache 28, Migraine 29, Trigeminal neuralgia 30, Facial nerve palsy 31, Mild paralysis after stroke 32, Peripheral neurologic disorders 33, Sequelae of pediatric spinal

poliomyelitis 34, Meniere's syndrome 35, Neurogenic bladder dysfunction 36, Enuresis 37, Intercostal neuralgia 38, Neck and arm syndrome 39 ,

Shoulder condensation 40, tennis elbow 41, sciatica 42, lumbago 43, arthritis. (The World Health Organization recommends 43 diseases acupuncture clinical guidelines. China Measurement Publishing

Publishing House. 1995)

Inheritance value

Because of the unique advantages of acupuncture therapy, a wide range of indications, rapid and significant curative effects, simple and easy to operate, economic medical costs, and few side effects, as far back as in the Tang Dynasty, Chinese acupuncture has been spread to Japan, North Korea, India, Arabia and other countries and regions, and has blossomed in other countries. , reproducing some acupuncture medicine with exotic characteristics. So far, acupuncture has spread to more than 140 countries and regions in the world, and has played a great role in safeguarding the life and health of all mankind.

Acupuncture and moxibustion is a scientific and cultural knowledge grown up in the specific natural and social environment of China over the ages, containing the unique spirit, thinking and cultural essence of the Chinese nation, encompassing a large number of practical observations, knowledge systems and technical skills, and cohesion of the Chinese nation's strong vitality and creativity, is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation, and also the treasures of the civilization of all mankind, which should be protected and utilized in a better way. It should be better protected and utilized.

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