What diseases can acupuncture treat? These six diseases can be easily treated by acupuncture.

1 What diseases can acupuncture treat?

Male diseases include prostatitis and prostatic hyperplasia. Among them, the symptoms of prostatitis include bifurcation of urine, waiting for urine, frequent urination and so on. If the syndrome differentiation is accurate, the selected meridian points are in place and the stimulation depth is appropriate, it will also have immediate effects.

Gynecological diseases such as menstrual disorder, hyperplasia of mammary glands, dysmenorrhea and climacteric syndrome. It can also be used for adjuvant treatment of premature ovarian failure, hysteromyoma and infertility. Dysmenorrhea can be divided into primary and secondary. Generally speaking, acupuncture has a better effect on primary dysmenorrhea.

So how to judge the type of dysmenorrhea? Primary dysmenorrhea means that there are no pain symptoms at first, but it is induced by some special reasons, such as anger, cold and other external conditions. For the treatment of such diseases, acupuncture is often more effective than taking medicine. Secondary dysmenorrhea refers to dysmenorrhea caused by a certain disease, such as endometriosis, which needs special treatment.

Nervous system diseases such as herpes zoster, headache, migraine, trigeminal neuralgia and facial paralysis (within 3-6 months in the early stage); Hemifacial spasm; Sequela of apoplexy (recovery period); Insomnia (good effect without depression); Enuresis; Intercostal neuralgia and so on.

Taking herpes zoster as an example, Chinese medicine believes that herpes is a fiery evil and can be treated by cupping, pricking collaterals and bloodletting, with good results.

Cervical spondylosis of bone and joint diseases; Lumbar disc herniation; Stiff neck; Periarthritis of shoulder; Tennis elbow; Acute lumbar sprain; Knee osteoarthritis; Ankle sprain, etc.

From the therapeutic mechanism, analgesia is the first therapeutic effect of acupuncture, so acupuncture has a significant effect on some pain treatments related to osteoarthrosis.

Endocrine diseases hyperthyroidism, diabetes, obesity; Chronic fatigue syndrome; Acne, chloasma etc. Among them, acupuncture is often used for the adjuvant treatment of hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism or thyroid nodules, diabetes and hyperlipidemia.

Respiratory diseases, chronic bronchial asthma; Pharyngitis; Cold; Cough; Acute tonsillitis, etc.

For example, chronic bronchial asthma is characterized by shortness of breath after climbing stairs or running. After acupuncture, cupping, bloodletting and other methods are used to treat this disease, patients will feel the symptoms of shortness of breath relieved after daily activities, and the symptoms are not easy to be repeated or aggravated when encountering cool weather. For example, coughing, many people cough for a long time after catching a cold. In this case, acupuncture combined with cupping will quickly eliminate the symptoms.

Who should not use acupuncture?

1, acupuncture is not suitable for leukemia population.

2, people with weak physique, the stimulus should not be too strong, try to use the prone position.

3, tired, hungry, nervous people, such people should not immediately acupuncture, need to wait until they recover before treatment.

4. Patients with spontaneous bleeding tendency or bleeding after injury should not be treated with acupuncture. Try to avoid vascular acupuncture and prevent bleeding.

5. The patient has skin infection, ulcer and scar, but the anti-inflammatory effect of acupuncture is very good in clinic, which should be analyzed in detail.

6. There is electric shock when the needle is inserted, and the pain is obvious or the needle tip touches the hard tissue crowd. In the process of treating this kind of people, it is found that the needle should be pulled out rather than continued.

7. For children with unclosed fontanels, it is generally not suitable for acupuncture points on the head and nape. In addition, because children can't cooperate, the method of quick needling should be adopted, and it is not advisable to leave needles.

8. Eye area, chest and back, kidney area, nape, patients with gastric ulcer, intestinal adhesion, intestinal obstruction and urinary retention should master the depth and angle of pubic joint acupuncture, and direct acupuncture is prohibited to prevent accidental injury to important organs.

9. People with coagulation dysfunction, such as hemophilia and thrombocytopenic purpura, are prone to bleeding at the needle mouth due to long coagulation time or difficulty in coagulation, so people with coagulation dysfunction are not suitable for acupuncture.

10, diabetic, because the blood sugar of diabetic is relatively high, once a wound is formed, even a small needle eye is not easy to heal. If you don't pay attention to the treatment of needle mouth or control your diet, it may cause infection of wound and needle mouth, so it is not suitable for diabetic patients to have acupuncture.

1 1, pregnant woman, habitual abortion, within 6 months, acupuncture at points of lower abdomen and lumbosacral region is prohibited; For those who have been acupuncture for more than 6 months, acupuncture should also be banned in the upper abdomen and some acupoints with strong acupuncture sensation (such as Hegu and Sanyinjiao). People with a history of habitual abortion should use acupuncture with caution. If it is not for menstruation, it is not suitable to use needles.