Acupuncture and moxibustion methods of the single point

(1) Diversification of single point treatment
The main methods for single point treatment are needling with filiform needles, moxibustion, cupping method, electro-acupuncture, three-edged needle, ligation, etc. treatment points include fourteen meridians. Extra Points. Ashi Points etc. the mcreasing methods of single point treatment enlarges therapeutical range, and enhances curative effect.
(2) The method effect research of the single point
Clinically, treatment of single point uses filiform needles most. Acupuncture with different technique, and brings effectiveness. of qi, and produce certain stimulation. Generally speaking, more stimulation has the function of calming, spasmolysis, pain-killing, and inhibitory action; less stimulation has may promote the organism to relieve excessively suppresses and causes normal excitation. If combine the three factors together: the intensity of stimulation, the cumulative time, the frequency speed, normally, lightly stimulates, short time, low frequency, and slow speed will make the organism have a weaker excited effect; lightly stimulates, long time, low frequency, and slow speed may have the weaker inhibitory action; heavily stimulates, short time, high frequency, and fast speed may have a stronger excited effect; strong stimulates, long time, high frequency, and fast speed may have a stronger inhibitory action.
As is reported, needleing of a healthy person's double feet ST36 causes the blood vessel to first contract then expand; but with regard to the hypertension patient, strong stimulates can cause the blood vessel to have obvious contraction, moderate stimulates may cause the blood vessel to have mild contraction, lightly stimulates can cause the blood vessel to first have the light contraction then vasodilatation. Applying reinforcing methods to ST36 will make most to have the vasoconstriction response. So dissimilarity of needling methods and intensity results to different effect.
Needling methods is effective to instantaneous abirritation. In the aspect of the acupuncture depth. the deeper the more obvious, especially the position of the needle point affects the near future and long-dated treatment result. Some people research the effective stimulation quantity by observing the acupuncture point's change of the bloodstream quantity. They take 30 lumbago patients as the object of observation, needling CV6, after arrival of qi. and discover the acupuncture brings about the desired sensation, while retention of the needle, it drops, retention for 5 min. it drops by 14.24%, 15-20 min later, it return to the normal level.
The laboratory technician observes after arrival of qi and retention of the needle, manipulation again, it can cause a large scale elevation of the blood current capacity once more, meanwhile the patients would feel the qi again. So retention of the needle and manipulation every 5 min is one of the ways of maintaining effective stimulation.
Moxibustion is also a commonly used method of the single point clinical treatment. Recently there has been massive research on the clinical discipline of the moxibustion. Moxibustion includes direct moxibustion, indirect moxibustion, moxihustion with moxa roll, moxibustion with warmed needles and so on. Research indicated that the moxibustion effect included the medicine function and the non-medicine function, among which there are many other factors. The quantity of the moxibustion is related to the curative effect.
Similar to the medicine, the function intensity increases with the quantity of the moxibustion within a certain range. Using different moxibustion method to stimulate the domestic rabbit's ST36 shows moxa is the best, moxa roll is better than moxa cone, and moxa roll has better stimulation. The quantity of the moxibustion is related to the curative effect. Similar to the medicine, the function intensity increases with the quantity of the moxibustion within a certain range. Using different moxibustion method to stimulate the domestic rabbit's.