[Autobiography of modern acupuncturist Yu Shu-zhuang].

Professor YU Shu-zhuang is a distinguished acupuncturist in China. He has practiced the TCM acupuncture-moxibustion clinical, educational and scientific research for 60 years in his life. In clinic, he summarized the experiences "five-ming first"; in treatment, he insisted "dredging" and "regulating", protecting the function of spleen and stomach, and needles should be less but specific. In the meanwhile, he made a deep study on the function and clinical effects of specific acupoints, and used the research results of propagated sensation along channel to guide clinical treatment, forming his special academic points. Professor YU has educated a great number of acupuncture-moxibustion talents in China and foreign countries, making great contribution to the popularization of acupuncture-moxibustion in the worldwide.

[Observation on therapeutic effect of pricking blood therapy combined with syndrome differentiation acupuncture on arthralgia syndrome].

OBJECTIVE: To observe clinical therapeutic effect of pricking blood therapy combined with acupuncture on arthralgia syndrome. METHODS: One hundred and ninety-two cases were randomly divided into a local pricking blood therapy combined with acupuncture group and a simple acupuncture control group, 96 cases in each group. Their therapeutic effects were compared. RESULTS: The cured rate and the total effective rate were 83.3% and 100.0% in the treatment group and 31.0% and 87.0% in the control group with a significant difference or a very significant difference between the two groups (P < 0.05, P < 0.01); the mean times for cure in the treatment group was superior to that in the control group (P < 0.05, P < 0.01). CONCLUSION: Pricking blood therapy combined with acupuncture has an obvious and definite therapeutic effect on arthralgia syndrome.