Acupuncture “gets the qi” to have a therapeutic effect

Acupuncture is a green therapy that has almost no side effects on the body. However, for many non-professionals, acupuncture and moxibustion health care treatment is about “getting qi”, and only “getting qi” can play the therapeutic role of acupuncture. The so-called “getting qi” is a professional term for acupuncture in Chinese medicine, which is called “needle feeling” in modern times. When the needle is pierced into the acupuncture point at a certain depth, the doctor applies needle techniques such as lifting and inserting or twisting, so that the patient’s needle site produces a special feeling and reaction, which is “getting qi”. Get gas” is the implementation of acupuncture to produce the key to the therapeutic effect, but also the doctor to determine the patient’s vitality, the prognosis of the disease, and to determine the right point, the needle technique, the basis for the effect of needle treatment. Ancient and modern medical doctors attach great importance to acupuncture “get qi”. When acupuncture acupuncture point qi, patients can judge: when acupuncture acupuncture point qi, the patient’s acupuncture site has soreness, swelling, numbness and other conscious reactions, or sometimes appear hot, cool, itchy, painful, twitchy, ants and other sensations, or present along a certain direction and site conduction and diffusion phenomenon. A few patients also have reactions such as twitching and trembling of the skin along the meridian, and some may also see a rash or red or white lines along the meridian at the site of the acupuncture point. In the patient has a conscious reaction at the same time, the doctor can also feel the needle under the sinking tight, astringent or needle body trembling and other reactions. If the needle is not “get qi”, the patient does not have any special feelings or reactions. The above needle sensations are transmitted through acupuncture points and meridians, acting on various tissues, organs and internal organs of the body, thus regulating yin and yang, regulating qi and blood, and thus promoting the return to normal functional activities of the body and achieving the purpose of treating various diseases.