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Chapter 1420

The special medical effects of acupuncture and moxibustion have gradually made acupuncture popular in the world. Many Westerners have accepted acupuncture and moxibustion from the bottom of their hearts. Up to now, Chinese food, acupuncture, kung fu, and traditional Chinese medicine have a good reputation overseas, which can be called the "new four majors". National quintessence".

Acupuncture is the quintessence of Chinese culture that has spread to the West after Chinese cuisine, and it is also a field where China has truly influenced Western science and technology.

Although traditional Chinese medicine came to the United States with Chinese immigrants very early, both folks and officials recognized that acupuncture and moxibustion therapy was officially introduced to the United States with Ni-K-Song-Fan-Hua.

Many Americans know that the trigger for the "acupuncture craze" was a report published in the New York Times.

One of the most widely circulated rumors about the introduction of acupuncture and moxibustion to the United States in the field of acupuncture and moxibustion in the United States is this: Among the members of the Ni-K-Song-Fan-Hua-Tuan, there is a young The reporter accompanying the mission suffered from appendicitis in China and was admitted to a Chinese hospital.

When Chinese doctors performed appendectomy, they used acupuncture analgesia instead of anesthesia, and the operation was very successful.

&nb=万=书=吧= .nsb.msp;? After returning to the United States, this reporter published an article in the New York Times, introducing his personal experience, which triggered the Acupuncture fever.This story can be called a "beautiful legend" in the medical field, so what are the historical facts?

It turned out that the writer of the New York Times was Mr. James Rolston (jmesrestn), a famous American reporter. At that time, he was already the New York Times stationed in China. Dayton - reporter station - master - Ren.Good at—politics—government—current—event—reporting—reporting, and has made extraordinary achievements in his life. He has interviewed several U.S. presidents, Premier Zhou and He—— - Lu - Xiao - Husband and other - country - leaders - leaders.

Rolston has won numerous journalism awards.Later, he also served as the vice president of the New York-New York-Times-Newspaper, and died in 1995.

The fact is that after Sino-Milan relations began to ease, in July 1971, before President Nixon’s visit to China, Roxton was sent to China for an interview. He visited many units in Beijing, including the Chinese medicine hospital visited for acupuncture treatment.

Unfortunately, he suffered from acute appendicitis during the visit and underwent appendectomy in a Chinese hospital.Conventional drug anesthesia was used during the operation, and she felt abdominal distension and discomfort after the operation, so she received acupuncture and moxibustion.Later, in July 1971, the New York Times published the famous documentary report: "Let me tell you about my appendectomy in Peking". In 7, Rolston was already a senior reporter in his 1971s. Because of his extraordinary experience and the status of the New York Times in the news circle, in the eyes of ordinary Americans, such a reporter written articles.Credibility is extremely high.And at that time, the White House had just announced that President Ni-K-Son-President would visit China in 60, and the American public didn’t know much about them. Mystery, and Roston's article just satisfied the curiosity of readers, coupled with some political needs, therefore, Roston's article became popular in the United States.

Roston wrote in the article: It seems absurd to publish an obituary in memory of the lost appendix, but because of this, the author has had the opportunity to learn from the inside about the political and business development of an important hospital in China in the past ten days .This report is a record of my experiences and observations.

in short.China's Premier Zhou invited 11 medical authorities in Beiping to consult with me, and Professor Wu, a surgeon from xxxxx Hospital, used conventional abdominal local anesthesia in July.After injections of lidocaine and benzocaine, an appendectomy was performed on me.

There were no complications from the operation, and neither nausea nor vomiting occurred.I was awake throughout the procedure.Through the translation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, I followed Professor Wu's requirements during the operation, and returned to my room two and a half hours later.

However, on the second night after the operation, I felt an uncomfortable feeling in my abdomen that seemed to be painful but not painful.After obtaining my consent, Dr. Li from the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of the hospital used a long and thin needle to prick my right outer elbow and under both knees for three times. Abdominal pressure and flatulence.

The needles caused throbbing pain in my limbs, but at least they distracted me from the discomfort in my stomach.At the same time, Dr. Li put two flaming cheap-cheap-cigar-smoke-like herbal medicine-ai-rolls on my abdomen to smoke and roast, and twisted my body from time to time. needles.

It all took about 20 minutes and I was wondering if it was a little too complicated to treat my bloating this way, but within an hour my bloating felt significantly less and it never came back.

According to information I have received, many reports from China today about acupuncture curing blindness, paralysis, and mental illness have led the US to speculate that the Chinese may have made new major breakthroughs in acupuncture and herbal medicine.But I do not know whether these speculations are correct, and I am not qualified to make such judgments.

On the other hand, some people said that my accident, at least the acupuncture experience, was just a small trick used by the reporter to understand the purpose of acupuncture anesthesia.

This statement, while not entirely unreasonable, is a compliment to my imagination, courage, and sacrifice.

In order to get good news, I can make a lot of sacrifices, but it is not enough to go under the knife in the middle of the night or take the initiative to be a "guinea pig" for experiments...  

This report is not only clear and concise, but also humorous and interesting.What's more important is that Ross Tun only reported his own knowledge and experience truthfully, and did not make rash comments on medicine and acupuncture, which he was not familiar with.It only describes the facts, and there is no act of sensationalizing or making news.

but.Ross Tun's article played a huge role in the popularization of acupuncture and moxibustion. Acupuncture gradually entered the Western world.

It is said that at the beginning of the acupuncture craze, because China and the United States had not yet established diplomatic relations, there were very few people in the United States who knew acupuncture and moxibustion, so "Luoyang paper was expensive" for a while.Every day, there are big buses from Washington to New York to find acupuncture doctors.The business of acupuncturists is booming, and they are overwhelmed, so that there are not enough consulting rooms and they rent hotels to receive patients.

Acupuncturists are too busy to give patients acupuncture.I didn't even have time to take out the needle, so I had to hire an assistant to pull it out.

Some acupuncturists have such a good business that they can buy a house with a week's income.Of course, for understandable reasons.The good times of this early acupuncture craze didn't last long.

Compare the true story with American "folklore".Although the details are different, the story is generally the same.

Although this kind of folk "oral literature" is not reliable enough to be used as historical evidence, the exaggeration of facts in the process of folklore fully reflects the good wishes of the people who spread the stories.

There is an old saying in China that goes, "Don't forget the man who dug the well when you drink water." While remembering that our ancestors invented acupuncture and created the healthy reproduction and prosperity of the Chinese nation, we should also remember the many people who have contributed to the development of acupuncture and moxibustion. Chinese and foreign doctors and scientists, social activists and patients, at the same time, don't forget the American journalist Roston and his "Beijing trip" published in the New York Times 30 years ago.

Acupuncture is not only useful in treating diseases.In other places, acupuncture also has uses that ordinary people can hardly imagine.Acupuncture can not only serve humans but also animals.

In order to ensure the deliciousness of the beef, Little Japan has innovated to give the beef cattle a daily massage; in order to make the pet dog slim, Little Japan will take the pet dog to dance samba together.

Today, Little Japan is innovating again: in order to make the most delicious sushi in the world, they actually give acupuncture to tuna.

A company in Osaka, Japan, recently demonstrated the technology of acupuncture for tuna at the International Seafood Exhibition in Japan, and has applied for a patent.The technology is based on the principle that "tuna tastes better when it is peacefully dead than when it is disturbed," the company said.

After the tuna receives a short acupuncture treatment, the blood will become pure and the fish will become more delicious, but they refused to disclose the specific part of the tuna's body where the acupuncture was inserted.

The technology has only been tested on tuna, and the company will next test it on salmon.

The medical effect of acupuncture and moxibustion is indeed not small, and it can even be said to be miraculous in some respects. However, when you practice acupuncture and moxibustion, you still need to pay attention to it. Acupuncture and moxibustion still have certain risks.

Acupuncture needles are very small, therefore, the needles used in acupuncture are also very fragile, once used improperly, they are easily broken.Just imagine, a broken needle is constantly moving in your body with blood or other reasons, what kind of feelings you will have at that time, what kind of danger, so acupuncture treatment also has certain risks of.

When performing acupuncture treatment like this, when the needle used in acupuncture is broken, it is called broken needle or broken needle in acupuncture medicine.

A broken needle or a broken needle means that the pointer body is broken in the human body.The reasons are that the quality of the needle is not good, the needle body or the needle root is damaged and eroded, the inspection before the needle is not performed, the needle body is completely inserted into the acupoint during acupuncture, the needle is lifted and inserted strongly, twisted, and the muscle is violently contracted. When the needle is retained, the patient changes the body position arbitrarily, or the bent or stuck needle fails to be handled correctly in a timely manner.

It can be seen that in order to prevent broken needles, the needles should be carefully inspected before operation, and those needles that do not meet the quality requirements should be rejected; during operation, excessive force and force should be avoided;

When performing or retaining the needle, the patient should be instructed not to change the body position at will, such as raising the head to answer the mobile phone or twisting the body to talk to others;

The operator should be careful not to pierce all the needle body into the acupoint during acupuncture, and leave part of the needle body outside the body so that the needle can be taken out when the root of the needle breaks;

In the process of needle insertion and operation, if a bent needle is found, the needle should be withdrawn immediately, and no forceful insertion or operation of the needle is allowed;

For stuck needles, etc., they should also be dealt with in time and correctly, and they should not be pulled out forcibly;

In case the needle body is broken during a row of needles or after the needle is withdrawn, the operator must keep calm and ask the patient not to change the original position.If the stump part of the needle body is exposed outside the body, the needle can be lifted out with fingers or tweezers, and if the broken needle has completely penetrated into the subcutaneous or deep muscle layer.Should be sent to emergency department.

During the acupuncture process, if a patient suddenly experiences chest tightness, nausea, dizziness, sweating, or even pale complexion, cold limbs, convulsions, or fainting, it is likely to be "acupuncture fainting".

Acupuncture fainting is often caused by mental stress, hunger, fatigue, or excessive stimulation by doctors' acupuncture techniques.

When fainting occurs, the doctor should quickly take out the needle and let the fainting person lie down.And press the corresponding acupoints, the symptoms will be relieved soon, and the severe cases should be given necessary medical rescue.

In short.For those who receive acupuncture treatment for the first time, they should explain clearly to the patient before acupuncture, so as to relieve their tension.

Before receiving acupuncture treatment, patients must calm their nerves and calm their minds, and eat something first.Choose a lying position or a comfortable position.Doctors should also use moderate stimulation.In order to avoid the occurrence of dizziness.

In addition, some acupoints, such as Fengchi, Jianjing, Hegu, Zusanli, Weizhong, Chengshan, Sanyinjiao, Yongquan, etc., are more sensitive to acupuncture and may easily cause fainting. Doctors should be more careful when piercing these acupoints.

From the above, it can be clearly seen that the magic of acupuncture and its powerful medical effects, therefore.Acupuncture and moxibustion can definitely be regarded as the treasure of our Chinese medicine, every Chinese.Everyone should be proud of having such a medical treasure, and should actively inherit and carry forward it!

The benefits of acupuncture and moxibustion are great. In the 21st century, as the advantages of acupuncture and moxibustion, such as less side effects and less consumption, are gradually recognized by people all over the world, it has become a problem that must be solved by legislation to confirm and improve clinical standards and challenge difficult diseases.

In terms of legislation, due to the recognition of various countries and the promotion of the United Nations, many countries have established and improved legal management, and further standardized the examination and qualification certification of acupuncture practitioners;

In terms of research, the use of acupuncture and moxibustion to treat or assist intractable diseases has gradually emerged, such as acupoint injection of small doses of drugs for atrophic gastritis, fire acupuncture for chronic osteomyelitis, and tongue acupuncture for cerebral palsy and Parkinson's disease.

It can be seen that the great medical discipline of acupuncture and moxibustion still has greater potential worth exploring!

In addition to traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, the medical methods of traditional Chinese medicine also include cupping and four diagnostic methods.

Cupping method is also known as "cupping gas" and "suction cylinder therapy", and it was called "horn method" in ancient times.This is a kind of therapy that uses cups and jars as tools, and uses heat to remove the air in it to generate negative pressure, so that it can be absorbed on the skin and cause congestion.

Ancient doctors used it to suck blood and drain pus when treating sores and abscesses, and later expanded its application to internal diseases such as tuberculosis and rheumatism.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to the continuous improvement of methods, cupping therapy has a new development, further expands the scope of treatment, and becomes a kind of therapy in acupuncture and moxibustion.

Cupping therapy, one of the Chinese medical heritage, has been used in Chinese folk for a long time.In the "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescriptions" written by Ge Hong, a medical scientist in the Jin Dynasty, there is a record of Jiao method.The so-called horn method is an external treatment method that uses hollowed out animal horns to suck out abscesses.

"Waitai Miyao" written by Wang Tao of the Tang Dynasty also introduced the use of bamboo tube cupping to treat diseases. Like a sword, boil this tube for a few times, and when it is hot, it will come out of the tube, press it on the spot of the cage ink, for a long time, use a knife to pierce the corner, and boil the heavy corner of the tube, when yellow, white and red water will come out, and pus will come out next time. When the worms come out, count the horns so that all the evil things come out, and it will be eliminated immediately, and the eyes will be clear and the body will be light."

Judging from the angle method and the situation of cupping made of green bamboo tubes introduced above, it can be seen that cupping has been popular in the Jin and Tang Dynasties of China.

Ge Hong, a native of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, wrote "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescriptions" written by him.The use of horns for detumescence is mentioned; the horns used were bull horns.In view of the prevalence of this method at that time, improper application could easily cause accidents.Therefore, Ge Hong specially warns to choose the symptoms carefully. The book emphasizes: "Abscesses, tumors, stone carbuncles, tendon knots, and scrofula should not be treated with needle horns.

Needle horns are rarely worse than disasters" ("Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescriptions? Volume"). This is obviously reasonable. Even from today's perspective, most of the diseases listed are indeed not indications for cupping .

In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was a breakthrough in cupping tools, and bamboo pots that had been cut and processed began to be used instead of animal horns.

Bamboo pots are widely used, cheap and easy to get, which greatly contributes to the transformation and promotion of this therapy; at the same time, bamboo pots are light in texture and strong in suction and pulling, which also improves the therapeutic effect to a certain extent.

Among the medical records of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Wang Tao's "Waitai Secret Essentials" recorded more content in this regard.For example, in "Waitai Secret Yao? Volume [-]", there is a detailed description of using bamboo pots to suck and pull: "So according to the horn method, bamboo is used to make small horns. Leave a section three or four inches long. Five points. If the finger is on, you can take thin bamboo to make it. Only then can it be cold to get the claws. The finger is made with a big horn, and the air will not leak out, so the horn will not get too big, and the big one is urgent. Quickly make five or four pieces, clang Boil it inside, take it from the horn sting, and replace it when it is cold.”…

Point out that it should be based on different parts.Use bamboo jars of different sizes.The suction and pulling method used at that time was the pot-boiling method, or the pot-boiling method, which is still in use today.

It's worth pointing out. "Waitai Miyao" introduces this method in detail in many places. It is mentioned in Volume No.13 that first, on the part of the cupping, "write it with ink dots. Take the big green bamboo tube with three fingers. Long Inch and a half. Leave a knot at one end, and cut off the head without knots to make it as thin as a sword. Boil this tube for several times, and when it is hot, take it out of the tube, and press it on the spot of the cage ink."

Suction tools and suction methods and improvements have had an important impact on later generations.

Cupping in the Ming Dynasty has become one of the important external treatment methods in TCM surgery, almost all of which were listed in some major surgical works at that time.

It is mainly used to suck out pus and blood and treat carbuncle.In the method of suction and extraction, it is better than the previous generation.Another improvement.

What is used more is to directly put the bamboo pot in the juice after decocting multi-flavored traditional Chinese medicine, boil it and suck it out directly.Therefore, bamboo cans are also called medicine cartridges.

Chen Shigong, a great surgeon in the Ming Dynasty, made a detailed record of this: The recipe for cooking and pulling out the tube: "Qianghuo, Duhuo, perilla, mugwort leaves, fresh calamus, licorice, and Angelica dahurica each for five coins, and two liang of green onions. The diameter is one inch and two [-]. Three parts of a section of fresh tender bamboo, seven inches long, leave a knot at one end, scrape off the outer green with force, leave half of the inner white, about one minute thick, drill a small hole around the joint, and plug it tightly with a wooden strip. Put the former medicine Put it into the tube, and plug the mouth of the tube with green onion. Put the tube horizontally in the pot and press it so that it does not float. Use ten bowls of clean water to boil for a few times, and wait until the inner medicine is thick. Then use the lanceol Open the three holes within one inch of the top of the sore, and go deep to a shallow inch, about the inside of the tube circle, and store the medicine tube with soup in a large magnetic bowl. First, squeeze the tube tightly with your hands, and absorb it naturally. When the drug tube is about to be taken, the tube is already warm, pull out the wooden strip for the plug hole, and the tube will come off by itself." ("Surgery Orthodox? Carbuncle Gate").

This method of boiling and pulling out the medicine cartridge was described in detail in some important surgical works of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as "Surgery Dacheng" and "Yi Zong Jin Jian", which shows that this method was very popular at that time.

In addition to the method of boiling and pulling out the tube, some more convenient cupping methods are also used. For example, Shen Douyuan's "Surgical Qixuan" contains the method of pulling out the pus through the bamboo tube: "The sore pus has been ulcerated and broken, because the pus is blocked... In this way, use the bamboo tube suction method to suck the pus by yourself, so as to release the poison."

By the Qing Dynasty, the cupping method had achieved greater development.The first is another innovation of cupping tools.Although bamboo cans are cheap and easy to obtain, their suction is poor, and after a long time of drying, they are prone to dryness and air leakage.

In order to make up for this deficiency, pottery pots made of clay appeared in the Qing Dynasty, and the term "fire pot" that is still used today was officially proposed.

In this regard, the Qing Dynasty Zhao Xuemin’s "Compendium of Materia Medica Supplements" described in detail: "Cupping: It is found in the right side of the river and in the middle of Fujian. It is sold by kilns. It is as small as a human thumb, with a big belly and narrow ends, which makes the mouth To receive the fire, anyone suffering from all kinds of wind and cold, use this jar."

It shows that clay pots have been bought and sold as commodities and become popular.

Secondly, the method of cupping has made great progress, "burn a small paper to see the flame, put it into the jar, and put the jar on the affected area. If you have a headache, put it on the sun, the head or the top, and if you have abdominal pain, put it on the navel. Inside, the pawn cannot be taken off, it has to fall by itself, a blush appears on the flesh, and air and water come out of the jar."

This kind of cupping method is the fire throwing method that is still quite commonly used.At the same time, instead of taking the lesion area as the cupping site in the past, suction and pulling acupoints are used to improve the therapeutic effect.

In addition, a special cupping method for treating mad dog bites is also mentioned in Qing Dynasty's "Golden Mirror of Medicine? The Essentials of Acupuncture and Moxibustion". Hot wine, very hot, remove the wine with the spout of the wine jug facing the biting place, like a cupping jar, suck all the bad blood to the limit, break it and let it fall."

To sum up, cupping therapy has a history of more than [-] years in China, and has formed a unique and special treatment method.However, it should be pointed out that its development process was very slow. For a long time, it was mainly used to treat carbuncle sores. Although it was expanded in the Qing Dynasty, it was still reserved for external treatment of sore surgery in general. in the law.

Therefore, the cupping method, originally one of acupuncture and moxibustion methods, is rarely seen in a large number of acupuncture and moxibustion works in ancient China. Especially after the end of Qing Dynasty, with the decline of acupuncture and moxibustion, cupping method also became popular among the people, and its development tended to be more Stagnation.

It is also because of this that cupping therapy has gradually become a treatment method of traditional Chinese medicine.

ps: ?? Note: Thank you Jin Guiguan for molesting and Xie Zhixiu for your support, thank you!