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Experience of other doctors
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Titles:
1. Comment on the
needling handlings (by Dr. Shi Rong, China)
2. Comment on the
needling handlings (by Dr. Bao Zhian, China)
3. Acupuncture with
moving of body (by Dr. Shi Rong, China)
4. Acupuncture on
lower part of the body to treat illness on the upper part of the
body (by Dr. Li Baozhong,
China)
5. Tiantu point for
loss of voice (by
Dr. Dong Guilan,
China)
6. Press Geguan point
for stomach pain (by Dr. Li Yiqing, China)
7. Press Zhongshu
point for stomach pain (by Dr. Li Yiqing, China)
8. Acupuncture on
Jinsuo point for stomach pain (by Dr. Li Yiqing, China)
9. Acupuncture for
acute diarrhea (by Dr. Yang Yuande, China)
10. Acupuncture on
pain point to stop pain (by Dr. Shi Rong, China)
11. Acupuncture for
bedwetting (by Dr. Zhao Guoxin, China)
12. Moxa therapy for
bedwetting (by Dr.
Zheng Yizhong, China)
13. Acupuncture on
Renzhong (Shuigou) point for acute lower back pain (by Dr. Guo
Shigui,
China)
14 Acupuncture for
herpes zoster
(by Dr. Guo Shigui, China)
15. Acupuncture for
herpes zoster
(by Dr. Tian Suqin, China)
16. Acupuncture for
pregnancy vomiting
(by Dr. Ji Qingshan,
China)
17. Acupuncture for
delivery of dead fetus
(by Dr. Gao Yu,
China)
1. Comment on the
needling handlings (by Dr. Shi Rong, China)
It is common that the clinic healing effects are quite different
among acupuncturists, though they use the same needle and
perform the same needle on the same acupuncture points. Why? One
of the major reason is that the needle handling technique is
different.
There are more than 50 kinds of needle handling or manipulating
technique in practice. No matter what kind of needle handling
technique you use, the most important and the end point is if
patient has needle feeling. The needle feeling does not mean the
feeling of pain but kind of sour, numb, bloating, cold, or hot
feeling. Sometimes it could be a feeling of water wave, ant
moving, electric shock, or pulse, or the combinations.
For patient in coma, or deafness, he/she cannot tell the needle
feeling. This time, the practitioner should feel the needle
feeling as sedimentation, falling down, tight, or non-smooth
under the needle. If there is no needle feeling, the
practitioner will feel the needle as in an empty space.
2. Comment on the
needling handlings (by Dr. Bao Zhian, China)
Some experience on the needle feeling: under normal condition
and generally, it is not so hard to stimulate out the needle
feelings to the patient. If there is no any feeling and the
practitioner has made sure the location of the needle is
correct, then he can leave the needle for sometime to “wait” for
the needle feeling. It only needs about 10 min to wait. Another
way to cause the needle feeling is to handle the needle. You can
change the direction of the needle, or the angle of the needle
in the skin. You can also twist the needle little bit, insert
deeper and pulling up little bit, scratch the needle up or down,
shacking the needle in various ways, insert two or three needles
into the same point. All help to induce the needle feeling.
To further improve the healing effect, we need to control the
direction the strength of the needle feeling too. One of the
ways is to insert a needle in the far end of the meridian to
direct the needle feeling.
To perform acupuncture, we also need to pay attention to the
body condition of patient and the time of acupuncture. We need
to diagnose the body condition as weakness (deficiency) or
excess, hot/fire or cold. For stronger person, the stimulation
(the needle feeling) can be induced stronger, but for weak
person (long time illness, or elderly, or after heavy
disease/surgery patients), the stimulation should be little. For
some kind of disease, the proper time for acupuncture is also
variable. For insomnia (poor sleep), acupuncture is best
performed half hour before bed. For nervous pain, it is best
performed right during the pain.
3. Acupuncture with
moving of body (by Dr. Shi Rong, China)
There are lots of techniques to handle the needle during
acupuncture. Most of the techniques pay attention how to handle
the needle in the spot, such as how to insert, to wait, to keep,
to induce feelings, etc. The acupuncture with moving body pays
attention how to stimulate whole body reaction by moving the
arms or legs. It is useful for the treatment of pain due to
muscles, nerves on the surface of the body. It asks to insert
the needle into the acupuncture point while moving the affected
arm or leg. First, move the arm or leg little bit by the
practitioner, then by the patient himself. (Martin: also, move
the non-affected arm or leg first, then the affected arm or
leg).
Clinic experience tells us: the pain-stop effect by acupuncture
might be short time without moving the extremes of the body.
With the body-moving technique, it lasts longer time.
4. Acupuncture on
lower part of the body to treat illness on the upper part of the
body (by Dr. Li Baozhong,
China)
I have a patient (family name is He), 58 years of old. His
complain is ringing in the brain (not in the ear) for 5 years.
He has tried various drugs from western medicine and herbs and
acupuncture somewhere for a long time, without clear
improvement. The problem becomes worse year after year and now
starts to have dizziness and ringing in the ear too, so that he
feels hard to fall into sleep. When he comes to me, I chose
acupuncture Guanyuan (on lower stomach), Qihai, (on lower
stomach), Zusanli (on leg) and Taixi (on foot). One treatment
largely improved the symptoms. It is completely fine after five
days treatment.
This is an example that we do not necessarily need to use needle
on the head when the illness is in the brain.
Based on the condition of the whole body (the patient is
in a weak and Qi deficiency condition), adjusting the whole body
condition can also solve the problem, and even faster.
5. Tiantu point for
loss of voice (by
Dr. Dong Guilan,
China)
Loss of voice (aphasia) in hysteria is commonly due to extreme
angry, scared, fear, etc. We use the acupuncture point of Tiantu
for the treatment.
Let patient sit down, with head little bit back bend. Fast
insert the acupuncture needle into the Tiantu point (on the
throat), deeper along the back of the thoracic bone about 1 cm.
Twist the needle to stimulate the needle feeling. Leave the
needle for 5 min.
6. Press Geguan point
for stomach pain (by Dr. Li Yiqing, China)
Many times, the healing of an illness can also be achieved by
press acupuncture point. Here is example: press Geguan point (on
the back, under the seventh thoracic spinal, then 4 cm to the
left or right side: two points). Normally we only use the right
point to press. It is very good to stop acute pain in the
stomach. The acuter the more effective. When practice, let the
patient sit down on chair (or lie with face down). Press the
right Geguan point with your finger. Press it with little force,
then increase the force gradually until the patient cannot
tolerate. Do not change the force light or heavy. During the
treatment, if the patient has saliva in mouth, let him swallow
it. More saliva suggests better results. Press for about 15 min.
Usually it works well. If not, then press the left Geguan point
the same way.
7. Press Zhongshu
point for stomach pain (by Dr. Li Yiqing, China)
Zhongshu point is under the tenth thoracic spinal, on the back
middle line of spine. Press this point is good for the treatment
of stomach pain due to roundworm.
This is goodness of the Traditional Chinese Medicine: if we have
no herbs, we can use acupuncture. If we have no needles to
perform acupuncture, we can use our fingers!
8. Acupuncture on
Jinsuo point for stomach pain (by Dr. Li Yiqing, China)
Jinsuo point, as the Chinese name indicates, means the spasm of
muscle/tendons. Acupuncture on this point is find really helpful
in the treatment of acute stomach pain due to the spasm of
musculus rectus
abdominis.
(Dr. Martin: actually you should not forget to use this point
whenever you meet a patient with spasm on calf, or migraine
headache). Jinsuo point is located under the 7th
thoracic spinal.
9. Acupuncture for
acute diarrhea (by Dr. Yang Yuande, China)
With acute diarrhea, patient feels fever, irritable within anus,
urgent feeling to have bowel movement again and again, dry
mouth.
We normally use the following two groups of acupuncture points
for the treatment:
(1). Qianshu, Shangjuxu, Hegu, Quchi, Neiting.
(2). Daheng, Yinlingquan, Diji, Sanyinjiao.
Both with depletion technique (Even technique does not work
well). Leave needle for 30 to 120 min with needle stimulation
every 10 min. For severe cases, repeat acupuncture 2 to 3 times
a day.
Acupuncture is very effective in the treatment of acute
bacterial diarrhea.
10. Acupuncture on
pain point to stop pain (by Dr. Shi Rong, China)
The pain point here means the point feels pain when press, so we
call it reaction point. It does not mean the actual pain point
that patient feels. For example, patient feels pain in the teeth
and come to us for stop the pain on teeth. But we can find some
points in the body that make the patient feels pain only when
press. Without press on this point, patient never realizes that
there is pain there.
(Dr. Martin: there are several ways to find the reaction points:
(1). Press the surrounding area around the pain point/area);
(2). Press along the corresponding meridian. For example, press
the stomach meridian if patient has pain in stomach; or press
lung meridian if patient has pain in chest due to cough; (3).
Press the sister meridian. For example above, if patient has
pain in stomach, we can also press Spleen meridian since the
Stomach meridian and the Spleen meridian is sister. (4). Press
the back part of Urine bladder meridian, since in this part of
the meridian, there are point links to the inner organs. For
example, there is a point called Stomach Shu on the Urine
Bladder meridian, that is linked to the stomach in the belly.
For most people, there could be many reaction points. Choose the
most painful one for acupuncture.
11. Acupuncture for
bedwetting (by Dr. Zhao Guoxin, China)
Normally, child over 3 years of old will stop bedwetting. If
not, there should be something done for them to stop the
wetting.
Acupuncture points commonly used are Guanyuan (supplying),
Shenshu (supplying) and Sanyinjiao, with the additional use of
Pangguanshu and Zhongji point. It works for most children (or
for adult too). Sometimes there are difficult cases, especially
for girls. In this case, we choose the point of Tongli (on the
inside of wrist) and Dazhong (on the inside of ankle). This
acupuncture point couple works to connect the Heart and Kidney
meridian (system). Generally it needs about 5 to 7 times of
treatment.
12. Moxa therapy for
bedwetting (by Dr.
Zheng Yizhong, China)
Moxa works to promote the transportation of blood and Qi, as
well as life energy moving in the body. Its effectiveness cannot
be replaced by acupuncture therapy. Especially for patients who
is very week, and who fears needle, or who didn’t have clearly
improvement with the acupuncture treatment, moxa can be one of
the best alternatives. I have been using moxa for the treatment
of bedwetting in children with pretty good result. Normally it
needs moxa once a day, for 20 to 30 days. The point for moxa is
Guanyuan.
13. Acupuncture on
Renzhong (Shuigou) point for acute lower back pain (by Dr. Guo
Shigui, China)
Renzhong point is located on the Dou meridian. It can be used
for the treatment of acute lower back pain. This is an example
of choosing upper acupuncture points for the treatment of
illness in the lower part of body. When acupuncture on this
point, slightly twist the needle until the patient feels tear.
At the same time, let patient moves body little bit.
14 Acupuncture for
herpes zoster
(by Dr. Guo Shigui, China)
Herpes zoster is a kind of virus-caused skin disease. It shows blisters on the
skin with terrible pain. It can last for 2 to 4 weeks and
without very effective therapy both western medicine or
Traditional Chinese Medicine. Here we introduce a way with the
application of acupuncture therapy.
Bound several (7 to 8) needles together. Use it to break the
blisters, then use suction cupping therapy to suck off the
liquid in the blister. Finally apply Zijingding paste on the
lesion. This way works pretty well.
15. Acupuncture for
herpes zoster
(by Dr. Tian Suqin, China)
Here introduces
another way for the treatment of herpes zoster. Insert needle
from the normal skin on the one side of the herpes, along the
long axis of the skin lesion,
insert the needle parallel to the long axis of lesion, to
the another end of normal skin. Leave needle for 20 min. For
bigger lesion, use needle around the lesion.
16. Acupuncture for
pregnancy vomiting
(by Dr. Ji Qingshan,
China
Vomiting during
the early stage of pregnancy is hard to treat with herbal
therapy since patient can hardly swallow anything. It however
works well with acupuncture. The commonly used points in our
clinic is Zhongwan, Tianshu, Neiguan and Zusanli. All are with
supplying technique (nourishing technique).
17. Acupuncture for
delivery of dead fetus
(by Dr. Gao Yu,
China)
When a fetus is
dead in the uterus and the pregnancy woman has to energy to
deliver it out, the only choice with western medicine is
surgery. With acupuncture, the woman may not need to suffer from
the surgery so no possible side effect with the surgical
therapy.
Acupuncture on
Hegu (both side, with supply technique), then Sanyinjiao (both
side, depletion technique), then Chuichan point (it is located
three body inches beside Guanyuan on the lower stomach. Use
supplying technique and twist the needle on both sides the same
time).
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