The uncomfortable and embarrassing “big red face” Twenty years ago, she was just twenty years old, it is the eyebrows of the new moon, shy face pink raw age. Strangely enough, when she was in an emotional state, a beautiful face became red, and feel hot and swollen, and the weather is hot when so. When the mood calms down, or the weather turns cool, everything returns to normal. In the beginning, the symptoms were mild, so I didn’t think it was just that I was more easily agitated than others. After more than 20 years, the situation became more and more serious. Once the attack is no longer a simple shy face pink raw, it is simply to “angry face”, is really a red face. The whole face seems to be like a red balloon to explode like, unusually uncomfortable, the duration is also is also getting longer and longer, the symptom relief is also getting slower and slower. And her symptoms made her feel more and more strange eyes, she began to become more and more sensitive, the number of blushing is also increasing, the time is also getting longer and longer, as if into a vicious circle, to her life has brought great trouble. When she met a famous doctor, she started a long journey to seek medical help. She went to a dermatologist and ate anti-allergy medicine for suspected allergies; she went to a Chinese medicine doctor and was told that she was suffering from liver fire and yin deficiency, and herbs were used for a long time, but there was no improvement; she went to a psychiatrist and had psychological counseling, self-confidence training, and psychological suggestion. …… For many years, she sought medical help from many sources, but to no avail. By chance, she heard that Dr. An Jianxiong, the director of the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine at the Aviation General Hospital of China Medical University, was always able to solve all kinds of difficult problems, so she approached Dr. An with the attitude of “trying to cure a dead horse”. After listening carefully to the patient’s complaint and analyzing the patient’s medical history, Dr. An diagnosed that the patient’s disease was caused by autonomic nerve dysfunction and performed a stellate ganglion block for the patient. A miraculous scene happened! In one short treatment, the patient was completely cured of a disease that had not been cured by many doctors and oral and external medications over the years. This is a story that happened three years ago. Recently, the patient brought her cousin to see Director Jianxiong An again for treatment because her own sister suffered from the same disease as hers. After treatment, good results were also achieved. What is a stellate ganglion block? According to Jianxiong An, the origin of stellate ganglion block therapy is quite legendary. In 1883, Liverpool and Alexander re-ligated the vertebral artery to treat cancer and mistakenly injured the sympathetic nerve, but got significant treatment results. For many years thereafter, the sympathetic nerve in the neck was surgically severed, and in 1920, non-surgical percutaneous stellate ganglion block therapy was introduced, which soon became a widely used treatment method. It is said that in the 1970s, an anesthesiologist cured a Japanese prime minister of facial paralysis with a stellate ganglion block, which made stellate ganglion blocks popular in Japan. The anesthesiologist also became famous for this. Currently, it is believed that stellate ganglion block has two main effects: central and peripheral nerve effects. The first is to maintain the stability of the internal environment by regulating the function of the thalamus to maintain normal phytoconstriction, endocrine function and immune function; the second is the peripheral nerve effect, because the function of the preganglionic and postganglionic fibers at the block site is inhibited, the cardiovascular movement, glandular secretion, muscle tension, bronchial contraction and nociceptive conduction innervated by sympathetic fibers in the distribution area are also inhibited, and this peripheral effect has been been, used to treat a number of disorders of the head and neck, upper extremities, shoulders, heart and lungs. In recent years, many studies have been conducted on the mechanism of action of stellate ganglion block. The results of these studies suggest that the effects of stellate ganglion block involve the vegetative nervous system, the endocrine system and the immune system, and have a modulating effect on the functions of these systems. The stellate ganglion block method helps to maintain the stability of the body’s internal environment and allows the correction of many autonomic disorders. By blocking the stellate ganglion, the excessive tension and hyperfunction of the stellate ganglion are relieved, causing vasodilation of the head, neck, upper limbs and heart, significantly improving the blood flow to the heart and brain, enhancing the anti-disease function and anti-inflammatory effect of the body, regulating the endocrine system, and stabilizing the systemic autonomic nervous system. Some studies have shown that repeated stellate ganglion blocks are a kind of resurrection exercise for the vegetative nerves and can restore the disruption of sympathetic-vagal balance caused by increased sympathetic activity.