Does acupuncture have a negative effect on human body? What effect can it have without it?

Acupuncture therapy is a genius invention of ancient people in China. Acupuncture or moxibustion is mainly used to stimulate some parts of the human body, regulate meridians, viscera, qi and blood, yin and yang, and achieve a therapeutic method to prevent and treat diseases. Thousands of years have passed, and acupuncture therapy coexists with modern western medicine with its unique style. As early as 1979, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) organized experts to discuss, demonstrate and popularize 43 effective diseases that can be treated by acupuncture on a global scale. At present, more than 100 countries in the world are studying, applying and studying acupuncture. I think you may be curious about why acupuncture can treat various diseases. The following introduces the principle of acupuncture in treating various diseases. Acupuncture and moxibustion are two different treatments. Acupuncture is a needle made of metal, which pricks some points of the human body, and uses appropriate methods to dredge meridians and harmonize qi and blood. Moxibustion generally refers to burning the skin of acupoints with moxa sticks or moxa rolls to achieve the purpose of warming qi and blood, dispelling cold and relieving pain. Both of them regulate the qi and blood of human viscera through acupoints and meridians, thus achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases. Their treatment principle is the same as oral medicine, which uses tonic for deficiency syndrome and diarrhea for excess syndrome. The therapeutic effects of acupuncture include: (1) regulation. Acupuncture treatment is to adjust the "excess and deficiency" of the body according to the nature of diseases and syndromes, so as to restore the normal physiological balance of the body. For example, acupuncture can promote normal intestinal motor function, that is, people with decreased intestinal motor function can promote their exercise; Those who exercise too much will be relieved. (2) Enhance immunity. Acupuncture has the function of strengthening the body resistance. Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy and bloodletting have the effect of eliminating pathogens. Acupuncture and moxibustion have many effects on enhancing immunity, enhancing the functional activities of reticuloendothelial system and increasing various specific and non-specific antibodies in the body. Clinically used for anti-infection, anti-allergy and anti-cancer. (3) promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. Acupuncture treatment is to "dredge its meridians and regulate its qi and blood" by acupuncture at selected points, thus promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, promoting granulation and relieving pain. (4) repair tissue function. Acupuncture has the function of repairing tissues, which has been proved by a large number of clinics. For example, facial paralysis acupoints, brachial plexus palsy acupoints on neck and arm, median nerve paralysis acupoints on upper limbs, etc. , all have good curative effect. It is common sense why moxibustion can cure diseases. On the Duanyang Festival, most elderly friends hang mugwort leaves and calamus on their doors to avoid filth and eliminate disasters with their fragrance. However, it is not necessarily known that mugwort leaves are used for acupuncture and disease prevention. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is one of the commonly used traditional Chinese medicines, which is warm in nature, bitter in taste and spicy, and has the effects of warming meridians to stop bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain. Traditional Chinese medicine is mostly used to treat hemorrhagic diseases, abdominal cold pain, irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia, deficiency-cold bleeding and so on. However, acupuncture is more widely used. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is made into wormwood, mugwort and moxa sticks, and then ignited. Stimulated by the heat of moxibustion fire, it warms the human body, and the medicine can penetrate inward, which plays the roles of warming qi and blood, strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil through the conduction of meridians and acupoints. The ancient medical book "Medical Man's Gate" said: "Medicine is not as good as needle, it must be moxibustion." It shows that moxibustion is an important treatment besides medicine and acupuncture. In traditional moxibustion, moxibustion is only one kind of moxibustion. In addition, it also includes burning lamp moxibustion with rushes dipped in oil and using some irritating drugs, such as garlic; White mustard seed, Eclipta prostrata, etc. Mash it into mud and apply it on the body surface to make it bubble without acupuncture. Moxibustion is used in conjunction with other methods, such as using ginger, salt and pepper as a pad moxibustion, cutting it into small pieces with moxa sticks, and inserting it on the handle of needles that have been pricked at human points for warm acupuncture, and so on. They have their own characteristics and indications, and acupuncturists will choose different moxibustion methods according to the patient's condition. According to statistics, acupuncture can treat more than 300 kinds of diseases, and has good curative effect on 100 kinds of diseases. The World Health Organization has recommended acupuncture therapy for 43 diseases. But generally speaking, most domestic patients come to the acupuncture department for treatment of neurological and osteoarticular diseases, such as apoplexy sequelae, facial paralysis, infantile cerebral palsy, cervical spondylosis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, lumbar spondylosis, and various pain syndromes (headache, neuralgia, joint pain, etc. ), sports injury, trauma (such as craniocerebral trauma) and surgical sequelae. In fact, acupuncture has a good effect on insomnia, neurasthenia, climacteric syndrome, epigastric pain, abdominal pain, even diarrhea, constipation and other sub-health States, and is also commonly used for myopia of teenagers, irregular menstruation of women, dysmenorrhea, enuresis of children and so on. Under special circumstances, acupuncture can also be used for heatstroke, collapse, acute pain and other emergencies. In China, it is stipulated that hospital ambulances must be equipped with acupuncture needles, so that they can be used to stab people's middle acupoints when rescuing patients. Acupuncture is also widely used at home and abroad to lose weight, quit smoking, beautify and delay aging. Four elements of acupuncture prescription (1) TCM and acupuncture syndrome differentiation: that is, according to TCM, acupuncture theory and diagnosis and treatment methods, comprehensively diagnose and analyze diseases, and formulate principles and methods of diagnosis, treatment and observation. (2) Treatment principle: According to the above syndrome differentiation, corresponding treatment methods can be established. For example, TCM syndrome differentiation belongs to "bladder damp heat", and acupuncturists use "clearing heat and promoting diuresis"; "Yang deficiency of spleen and kidney" is treated by "warming and tonifying spleen and kidney" (3) Selecting points and matching points: acupuncture treatment is carried out by acting on points through various stimulation methods. Treatment alone is not enough. Doctors should choose acupoints according to a certain plan, coordinate different acupoints and give full play to the best therapeutic effect. (4) Specific implementation: After finding the appropriate acupoints, the doctor will determine whether to use acupuncture, tonic method, or purging method, and so on. With these specific methods, we can really play a therapeutic role. These four links are interrelated and indispensable. A regular acupuncturist will follow the above principles, that is, the four elements of acupuncture prescription, whether there is a visible prescription or not. Why does acupuncture have the function of tonifying deficiency? Acupuncture only uses strictly sterilized stainless steel needles, and there is absolutely no tonic and laxative on the needles. So, how does it produce the effect of tonifying and relaxing bowels? It turns out that acupuncture treatment is mainly achieved through acupoints and meridians, regulating qi and blood, regulating viscera and harmonizing yin and yang. When the body is in a state of exhaustion, showing deficiency syndrome, acupuncture can stimulate the function of zang-fu organs through meridians, promote the generation of qi and blood, enhance the body function, and play the role of strengthening the body resistance and tonifying deficiency; When human body has excessive pathogenic factors, acupuncture can dredge meridians, promote the circulation of qi and blood, dredge viscera, inhibit body function, and play the role of eliminating pathogenic factors and purging excess. In other words, acupuncture has a two-way benign regulation. Its tonic and diarrhea are determined according to the functional state of the body during acupuncture. In addition, the indications of acupoints are not only universal, but also relatively specific. Some acupoints are biased, while others are purgative, such as Shenque, Guanyuan, Qihai, Ointment Blindness and Zusanli. After acupuncture or moxibustion, it can stimulate healthy qi, promote vigorous function and have a strong effect, and is mostly used for debilitating diseases. Jingxue, Shixuan, Baxie, Zhongwan and Zhongwan can eliminate pathogenic factors, inhibit human hyperfunction, and have the effect of eliminating pathogenic factors, which are often used in clinic to cause diseases. In addition, the degree of stimulation used by doctors in acupuncture can also promote the transformation of internal factors of the body and produce or supplement the effect of the bay. Ancient acupuncturists have accumulated a lot of clinical experience in this field and created more than a dozen acupuncture reinforcing and reducing methods. Acupuncture can play a very good therapeutic role in clinical diseases, whether it is deficiency syndrome or excess syndrome. How is acupuncture dizzy? Normal acupuncture, in addition to the patient's slight pain when inserting the needle, acupuncture may have a local or physical feeling of acid, numbness, heaviness, bloating or comfort, which is acceptable to most people. Only when you feel mental fatigue, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, or even pale, flustered, sweating, sudden fainting and other symptoms during acupuncture. Are you dizzy? It is generally believed that this is transient cerebral ischemia and hypoxia caused by various reasons. Patients who receive acupuncture treatment for the first time are nervous, hungry, or weak after sweating, diarrhea and massive bleeding, and take standing and sitting positions. Excessive acupuncture techniques, poor consulting room environment, sultry or cold are also one of the reasons for acupuncture dizziness. When needle fainting happens, as long as all the needles left on the patient are pulled out in time, the patient is helped to lie flat, bow his head, loosen his belt, pay attention to ventilation and keep warm, or give the patient warm water, the phenomenon of needle fainting can generally disappear in a few minutes. For syncope, you can pinch or acupuncture Renzhong, Neiguan and Zusanli, or moxibustion Baihui, Guanyuan and Shenque. If necessary, modern first aid measures will be adopted, and it will soon return to normal. Why acupuncture can lose weight There are three principles of healthy weight loss stipulated by the World Health Organization: no dieting, no fatigue and no diarrhea. Weight loss experts believe that the scientific weight loss method should be "reasonable diet structure+good living habits+moderate activities+safe and effective weight loss products+perseverance". Therefore, acupuncture weight loss has become a more recognized method for people who are losing weight because of its advantages of safety, effectiveness and no toxic side effects. Through the regulation of nerves, cells and hormones, acupuncture can regulate the unbalanced state of obese people in a multi-polar and multi-link way, reverse metabolic abnormalities, reduce energy intake and increase energy consumption, achieve the effect of losing weight and improve the functions of important organs such as digestion, cardiovascular system and kidney. If it is difficult for some obese people to adhere to a reasonable diet and aerobic exercise, they can choose acupuncture treatment.