[Summarization of professor He Pu-ren's channel syndrome differentiation for treatment of complicated and difficult diseases].

Channel syndrome differentiation is a more commonly-used syndrome differentiation method of Professor HE Pu-ren clinically, which includes the 3 aspects: differentiation of diseases and syndromes on the channel parts along the body surface; differentiation of diseases and syndromes of the internal organs connected with the channels; differentiation of qi and blood of the channels. According to results of the channel syndrome differentiation, with flexible application of the HE's Santong methods and selection of corresponding treatment program, many complicated and difficult diseases are cured.

[Observation on therapeutic effects of red-hot needle therapy on nodules of breast of the type of stagnation of liver-qi and phlegm coagulation].

OBJECTIVE: To compare therapeutic effects of red-hot needle therapy and filiform needle therapy on nodules of breast of the type of stagnation of liver-qi and phlegm coagulation. METHODS: Six hundred cases were randomly divided into a treatment group and a control group, 300 cases in each group. The treatment group were treated with red-hot needle pricking at the proliferative parts and Ashi points as main, and the control group with filiform needle therapy. RESULTS: In the treatment group, 240 cases were cured, 58 cases improved and 2 cases were not cured with an effective rate of 99.3%; and in the control group, 113 cases were cured, 165 cases improved and 22 were not cured with an effective rate of 92.7%, with a significant difference between the two groups (P = 0.001). CONCLUSION: The therapeutic effect of red-hot needle therapy is better than that of filiform needle therapy on nodules of breast of the type of stagnation of liver-qi and phlegm coagulation.