Treatment of acute stage gout can be used three-pronged needle needling the first metatarsophalangeal joints, ankles and other red, swollen, hot and painful parts of the body, piercing the bleeding has the effect of reducing swelling and pain.
Three-pronged needles are mostly made of stainless steel, with cylindrical handles, triangular conical body to the tip of the needle, sharp blades, sharp edges, and are divided into three types: large, medium, and small. Different models are chosen according to the different diseases and the patients’ physique.
The use of three-pronged needle puncture bleeding therapy has the effect of promoting local qi and blood circulation, dredging meridians and channels, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, opening up and clearing heat, reducing swelling and relieving pain.
When the patient is in the acute stage of gout, three-pronged needle treatment can be used, that is, blood-letting therapy can be used at the first metatarsophalangeal joint, ankle, back of the foot, etc. where there is obvious redness, swelling and hot pain, which can alleviate the symptoms of redness, swelling and hot pain, and achieve the purpose of subduing swelling and relieving pain.
The use of three pronged needle treatment of acute gout, need to be identified by a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, the doctor standardized operation is completed, not self-exercise bloodletting, so as not to avoid misunderstanding the condition.