Acupuncture treatment for melasma

  Facial chloasma is one of the common diseases in dermatology, and the treatment of chloasma is still very difficult, and there is no particularly effective method in Chinese and Western medicine. Chinese medicine believes that chloasma is closely related to the dysfunction of liver, kidney and spleen; the pathogenesis is related to qi and blood deficiency and qi stagnation and blood stasis, which has been confirmed in many studies.  Among the twelve meridians in the human body, six Yang meridians follow the head, face and ears, while the other six Yin meridians and Yang meridians are in contact with each other. Acupuncture plays an important role in the treatment of melasma, and the method is not only effective in removing spots, but also in treating various accompanying symptoms. Considering from the aspect of modern medicine, scientific experiments prove that the mechanism of acupuncture for melasma treatment may lie in the fact that acupuncture improves the deformation ability of red blood cells, reduces the aggregation of red blood cells, changes the rheological characteristics of blood, promotes blood circulation, increases the effective perfusion of facial skin blood circulation, reduces a series of peroxidation reactions caused by local tissue ischemia and hypoxia, thus reducing the production of melanin, and at the same time improves After improving blood circulation, it accelerates the cell turnover time in the lesion area, promotes skin pigment metabolism, and improves the scavenging ability of oxygen free radicals, thus inhibiting cell membrane damage and repairing cell membrane structure.  The origin of blood pricking therapy can be traced back to the Stone Age. The Su Wen? It is said in the “Treating the disease of carbuncles and ulcers, the treatment should be done by acupuncture”. This is the first stage of blood pricking therapy. The treatment principle of “Wan Chen is removed” was proposed in the chapter of “Nine Needles and Twelve Originals”, and “Ling Shu? It is also pointed out that only those with obvious blood stasis can be “diarrhea of all”, and the formation of chloasma is closely related to blood stasis, as stated in Ling Shu? It is said in the “Meridian” that “the blood does not flow, then the color of the wood is fashionable, so the face is as dark as lacquer wood.” This suggests that the deepening of facial color is related to blood stasis. Liver depression is an obstacle to the flow of qi; spleen deficiency is a failure of health and transportation, which can easily lead to internal dampness; liver and kidney deficiency is a deficiency of internal fire, which can burn the fluids and slow down the blood flow.  Facial flash cupping, back cupping: cupping can accelerate blood circulation, promote metabolism, timely removal of metabolic products, directly improve the local internal environment, cupping at the vascular tension and mucosal permeability changes, lymphatic circulation accelerated, while the chronic stimulation of hemolysis phenomenon on the human body to play a health care function.