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Why small needles are banned by the state

To protect public safety. Small needle knife is a small knife, its length is under 15 centimeters, its blade is relatively sharp, can be used to cut objects, can also be used to do detailed work, some people will use a small needle knife to attack others, which may cause physical injury, and may even lead to death, in order to protect public safety, many countries have banned the use of small needle knife. The external shape of the knife is similar to acupuncture needles, but the tip of the knife has a narrow blade, can play the dual function of acupuncture and knife cutting, is based on modern Western surgical therapy and traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture therapy, the formation of a new type of Chinese medicine medical equipment. 1976, Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Director of the Center for Acupuncture and Knife Medicine, Acupuncture and Knife Medicine founder Prof. Zhu Hanzhang, was still a Chinese medicine doctor of orthopedics and traumatology in Jiangsu Province, in the wake of a few years of refinement and practice, and then the Chinese medical profession. On the basis of pondering and practicing, he used an ordinary No.9 syringe needle for a trauma-induced finger flexion and extension disorders of an old man in the countryside to carry out soft tissue loosening after the success, and solved the problem of the long-troubled joints and meridians adherence, and was inspired by this to design a new therapeutic device - small needle knife, and after a gradual accumulation of summarization, invented the "Small Needle Knife Therapy".