Temperature with acupuncture and moxibustion pull tank to knee joint osteoarthritis

YuChuan Beijing pinggu district hospital of traditional Chinese medicine

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        Knee osteoarthritis is a kind of because of articular cartilage degeneration caused by bone hyperplasia as the main performance of joint disease, is the common disease in the elderly. As the growth of the age, knee muscle, ligament have different degree of relaxation, meniscus also gradually lose elasticity, not very good play its due function, appear stress disequilibrium, bone hyperplasia to produce gradually, the hyperplasia of bone will let the bones be area increase, pressure decreases, and avoid bone and bone because of pressure between too much and lead to injury, this is the human body in order to fight against aging and produce protective change, but if this change is beyond human adaptation scope, the proliferation of bone long pull, stimulate attached its muscle, ligament, the articular capsule expansion, can appear the knee joint stiffness, swelling, pain, deformation, give patients a great deal of pain.

        Acupuncture treatment of this disease have a lot of methods, while relieving symptoms, adjusting the constitution respect to all have good curative effect. Introduce temperature acupuncture fit drawn tank method:

        Acupoint selection: inside and outside genu eye, blood, LiangQiu, foot three mile, in wan, shen shu, "is a hole.

        Operation: the order of the lower limbs of patients with unbend, knee pad a pillow, make whole knee relax, acupoint skin disinfection, conventional acupuncture inside and outside genu eyes, blood, LiangQiu, local pain site, foot three mile, in wan to patients feel acid bilges feeling for degrees. In the foot three mile and in wan acupuncture point needle handle position for a long two centimeters long moxa stick, from the top light, temperature acupuncture, retaining needle 30 minutes, once a day. The needle, in shenshu point cupping, leave tank 10 minutes, twice a week.

        The disease is the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine "bi syndrome" category, much by physical deficiency cold, sun be the spirit not solid, feel the wind cold dampness evil, bizu meridian, qi and blood operation, and the muscles and bones, joints, muscles ache numb, and even inconvenient flexion, activity function restricted. Inside and outside genu eye sp10, beam agger cells situated at the local acupoint selection, acupuncture this four hole have promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, adjusting the adjustable work, can dredge local blood running and stop caused pain, "Element asked · jue theory" yue: "Yin qi from the foot of the five fingers, set in the knees and get together on the lap so Yin qi wins, is from five toe to knee cold, the cold is not from outside, all from inside". "Inside" refers to the upper abdomen spleen and stomach, if diet is not festival, gluttony cold, spleen and stomach injury, sheng qi and blood biochemistry of hypothyroidism, is easy and the raw and phase feeling and send the disease. Foot three mile is yangming foot the hole, for the strong health care to hole, in wan is a stomach offering hole, the spleen and stomach the work temperature needle foot three mile, in wan, tomifying qi and blood, righting variet tonic acquired qi, Shen shu have kidney tonifying the kidney and fixing sperm, benefit the work here cupping, use warm and negative pressure action can WenZhuang kidney Yang, strong waist knee, alleviate pain.