ABSTRACT
Neck-shoulder pain syndrome is a commonly-seen disease clinically. Modern medicine has had no better therapy for it yet. Acupuncture and moxibustion have a better therapeutic effect, but improper treatment easily induces protracted course. For the treatment, detailed syndrome differentiation, paying attention to pulse-taking, in combination with local palpation diagnosis and channel palpation, selection of proper acupoints should first be carried out; for manipulation of needling, do not seek first for arrival of qi, but waiting for arrival of qi is important, and warming needle treatment should be combined; for the patient with yang-qi not reaching the four limbs, firstly warming reinforcing yang of the spleen and kidney, then opening the 4 gates, Hegu (LI 4) and Taichong (LR 3) are carried out to promote yang-qi going, and then acupuncture is given at the neck-shoulder based on syndrome differentiation.
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Humans , Acupuncture Therapy , Methods , Diagnosis, Differential , Medicine, Chinese Traditional , Meridians , Neck Pain , Diagnosis , Therapeutics , Shoulder Pain , Diagnosis , TherapeuticsABSTRACT
Sjogren's syndrome is one of clinical difficult and complicated diseases and there is no radical treatment for it at present. The authors summarize the thinking of clinical syndrome differentiation and treatment of acupuncture and moxibustion, 4 syndrome-differentiation methods and dredging the Triple Energizer channel, and needling three parts by long-term clinical practice and in combination with clinical study achievements of TCM in recent years, and put the important point of treatment on the Triple Energizer, with the points on the Triple Energizer channel as main points, combined with the points with functions of regulating functional activity of qi and regulating visceral functions, attaining better results. This provides a new method for acupuncture and moxibustion treatment of Sjogren's Syndrome.