What to know about acupuncture?

1, acupuncture is the use of specific needles or moxibustion, stimulate the body of certain points (acupuncture points), through the meridians to support the positive and eliminate evil, stimulate their own resistance to disease, so as to achieve the purpose of treatment of a natural therapy, it is good for most of the diseases have a good therapeutic effect. 2, excessive hunger, fatigue, should eat, rest before acupuncture, otherwise it is easy to cause fainting needle. Fainting from needling is manifested by sudden mental fatigue, dizziness, panic and shortness of breath, nausea and nausea, pallor, cold sweat and so on. If there is any of the above conditions, the physician should be informed in time to deal with it. Dizziness patients can generally lie down and rest to return to normal. 3, the pain produced by acupuncture is mainly produced when the needle into the skin, the acupuncturist can reduce most of the pain to a completely tolerable level of mild, please do not be nervous for the first time to receive acupuncture patients, try to relax, in order to facilitate the application of the needle. Needle into the skin after the general patient will feel the needle under the acid, numbness, swelling, heavy, or hot, cool, itchy, twitching, ants and other sensations, some of the acupuncture points can sometimes have different degrees of electrocution or other needle sensation conduction and diffusion of the phenomenon, which is a normal reaction to acupuncture, Chinese medicine is called “get qi. 4, the patient should take a comfortable and natural position during the acupuncture operation, otherwise it is easy to be fatigued during the period of needle retention; during the period of needle retention, the limbs should not be moved again, so as to avoid the occurrence of folding the needle, the needle body displacement of the tissue of the accidental injury and other undesirable consequences. Some patients have some local discomfort at the acupuncture points after the needle, usually disappear within a few hours. 5, the needle into the skin if you feel pain, may be the tip of the needle touching the blood vessels, please tell the physician, in order to adjust the direction of needling, avoid blood vessels. Needle sometimes touch small blood vessels caused by bleeding, which is inevitable, in addition to some parts of the aesthetic impact, there is no harm to the human body. Needle holes appear small blood bags should be pressed for more than 3 minutes, the local small piece of bruising, generally do not have to deal with, can gradually subside. 6, acupuncture needle should be closed eyes, reading books and newspapers, cell phones and chatting will reduce the efficacy of acupuncture. 7, the skin at the needle hole should be kept clean, generally 2 hours after the needle do not water, in order to prevent infection. The use of fire needles, prick, prick blood or auricular acupuncture points to cut the treatment, generally do not get water on the day of the needle eye. Diabetic patients skin easily infected, should keep the local skin clean. 8, the use of baking lamps or moxibustion, acupuncture points localized to maintain a comfortable sense of warmth, such as feeling too hot, to inform the doctor in a timely manner in order to avoid the formation of burns. If the patient’s skin sensory function is reduced, also need to inform the doctor, so as not to cause burns unknowingly. When the cupping stays in the cupping, generally not more than 10 minutes, otherwise it is easy to form blisters, please cooperate with the doctor to keep track of the time.