Acupuncture and moxibustion open four close late relieve severe pain

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        In advanced cancer patients, about of the patients life until the last moment is suffering, especially some incurred systemic metastasis patients, pain is the most common and most main symptoms. A few the patient's pain even use a variety of painkillers were difficult to improve symptoms, only on willpower is unable to endure, seriously affects the quality of life and survival period. Hospital of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture and moxibustion, foshan city, guangdong province, deputy director of the plum tree, Lin for some intractable pain, acupuncture treatment can stimulate the patient's brain secrete a kind of called endorphins material, thus creating a calm painkillers. At the same time, still can make patients systemic symptom obviously improved, emotional smooth, appetite increase, the treatment to improve confidence, calm, positive attitude through life the last time.

        The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks, tumor patients is a typical is virtual and real, there is a tumor entity the lesions of existence, in cancers, the body of each function is also in the long run, the state of the weak. Therefore, in acupuncture treatment to receive the good result, be about to notice acupoint selection and technique application, tapping complement the combination, already centering and to eliminate pathogenic factors. For example, in the experience of pain acupoint selection party the most common of which are "open four pass", the so-called four refers to li4, taichong two to hole, two hole known collectively as "four close cave", namely, it is to point to human body life passes, two holes in a blood, Yin and Yang one, one hand and one foot, can be adjusted up and down the Yin and Yang. In the Ming dynasty necessary acupuncture and moxibustion have cloud: "chills and fever caused pain, open four shut the just." Take four close hole on qi through blood, make clear the meridians, the general principles of the pain. In addition to four close experience hole outside, still in patients with tumor according to the site and chills and fever, such as the actual selection of different meridians syndrome differentiation compatibility was hole. Technique is taken to fill gas and reducing real practice. In acupuncture technique, light weight according to ask to fill method, conversely, light according to revert to purge method. Pain for patients, in general the needle into the heavy pressed after take light technique for patients to tonify deficiency, finally use heavy technique to eliminate pathogenic factors. "In patients with pain to joash needle treatment, acupuncture doctors must concentrate, get together the vigor in needle, correct application of reinforcing and reducing to relieve pain for patients." Plum tree achieve. (XuanYing yan)