1, what is “disease” Different periods, different degrees of development, different cultural backgrounds, as well as Chinese and Western medical theories on the view of disease, there are different understandings and definitions, so far, there is not a completely unified and convincing concept. However, it is recognized that disease is an inevitable part of the life process, a state in which there is an abnormality in the coordination of material structure or function or in the command of information. There is a fundamental difference between TCM and Western medicine in terms of the understanding of disease. Western medicine because of the influence of Western industrialization, in a sense, the thinking person as a machine, the understanding of human pathophysiology is too mechanical, often strive to find the cause of the disease, etiology, pathology and more and more tend to be subtle, from the cellular level to find the molecular level, such refinement seems to have found the “root”, but do not know, “the skin does not exist, the hair, the skin is not there, the hair”. “If the skin doesn’t exist, won’t the hair?” However, we do not know that “if the skin does not exist, the hair does not exist”, and if we leave the whole, the part does not exist. Under the guidance of such an understanding, the treatment is based on the principle of “eliminating all evils”, adhering to such an understanding, it is difficult to avoid one-sidedness, one-sided understanding of the diagnosis obtained and how to cure the disease? This is the past in the western medical diagnosis is clear, the cause of the disease is clear, but the phenomenon can not be cured. For example, the helplessness of western medicine against viral invasive diseases and the hand-wringing over cancer and tumor treatments, and the chemical drug treatments currently used tend to kill normal tissue cells while killing cancer cells. As a result, it is better not to treat it, but the more it is treated, the worse it gets. Recently, an authoritative organization reported that “worldwide, patients who died due to improper treatment and overuse of anticancer chemotherapeutic drugs accounted for more than half of the mortality rate of cancer diseases”. On the other hand, we have also seen many people suffering from tumors who have been cured after “optimizing” their lifestyles and focusing on balanced diets and proper Chinese medicine treatment. 2, Chinese and Western medicine to understand the disease point of view is different Chinese medicine in the understanding of the disease viewpoint and Western medicine is different, not to find the disease for the purpose, is the disease in the human body as a whole, is to “people-oriented” premise to recognize the essence of the disease. Chinese medicine believes that “disease” is “Yin-Yang balance disorder”, if “Yin-Yang balance”, is “healthy state If “yin and yang are balanced”, it is a “healthy state”. Therefore, the first goal is to maintain the “balance” of the body. In these aspects, thousands of years of clinical practice of Chinese medicine has given strong confirmation. In fact, in most cases, the human body’s “disease” can be completely by their own “health” ability to quell, when really unable to fight, the doctor is best to “help health”, not necessarily to “help health”. The doctor is not obliged to “help the health”, but to “help the health”. That is, the doctor’s therapeutic task is to adjust the body’s various pathological changes to the body’s self-repair ability, can not impose a variety of excessive treatment means. Cause “help” regret! Holding this understanding to guide the clinical to ensure the efficacy of treatment is of great significance. 3, the balance is dynamic, is relative The human body in the restoration of equilibrium when the self-regulatory function not only enables the body to inhibit pathological changes, alleviate, against the disease-causing factors to maintain the normal play of human physiological functions, at the same time in this antagonistic adjustment process, will produce new pathogenic factors, resulting in new diseases. For example, when a person suffers an open injury, the human body produces scars and fibrosis in the process of self-repair, and such scars and fibrosis, will become new pathological factors. For example, when the force balance is out of balance, the human body, in order to fight against the damage of high stress on the tissues and organs, makes the tissue proliferation, hardening, ossification to resist this damage, but this proliferation, hardening, ossification and become the causative factors of some new diseases and so on. In clinical practice, we often encounter such a situation, different doctors are using the needle knife treatment but produce different results, the difference may be the difference in diagnosis and treatment ideas and different views of the disease. We should have a comprehensive and systematic knowledge and understanding of the medical theory of needle knife, and use the theory to find out the law. Only by mastering the rules can the method be effective. Needle knife therapy is only a method, the theory of needle knife medicine is the soul of the “needle knife”, the cold needle knife how there is a soul? That is of course given by the doctor. That is to say: a doctor who uses the needle knife to cure the disease will only skillfully operate the needle knife is not enough, but also need to learn and practice through hard work, to understand the essence of needle knife medicine. When mastered the law, then the method is essential, “the work wants to be good, must first sharpen its tool”, only then can we use the “needle knife” this “sharp tool” to achieve a satisfactory The only way to use the “needle knife” this “sharp weapon” to achieve satisfactory therapeutic effect. 4, the treatment of persistence Treatment of disease, like daily climbing (this may be an inappropriate analogy), in the beginning is a relatively flat section, plus enough physical strength, it is easy to go halfway up the mountainside; at this point, although the remaining less than half of the distance, but that are the cliffs. Plus physical strength has been consumed most of the remaining distance is exceptionally difficult, the so-called “line 100 miles half ninety”, the remaining only 10% of the distance need to use more than the beginning of ten times or even a hundred times the time and strength to reach the summit. Once you reach the top, it is at a very high altitude on the “level ground”, if you are about to get to the top when you can not hold on, then it will be abandoned, left behind in addition to the difficulties or difficulties. Treatment is like the above mountain climbing, the treatment of the beginning, some of the appearance (these appearances often temporarily cover the substantive signs), like flat ground, a little applied to the method of treatment will appear obvious effect, which is a natural phenomenon determined by the regression of the disease. But the rest is often “stubborn disease”, we need to pay ten times or even a hundred times the treatment time and method to conquer stubborn disease. 5, the disease is often not a single existence of our common treatment of neck, shoulder, back and leg pain. Patients are often seeking medical advice, to the point that almost can not be sought before we find us, most of the long course of the disease, the condition of heavy, and most of the patients over the age of 60, or due to the pain of mobility, limbs in a state of disuse. These patients do not talk about other diseases, the vast majority of osteoporosis, osteoporosis is only with the needle knife can not be resolved. 6, the return of the disease determines the time of complete recovery In the clinic, such as cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis and other diseases, in general, the first treatment of the removal of more symptoms, but the second or third treatment patients often reflect the effect of the treatment is not obvious, at this time, we must be clearly informed that this is the return of the disease is determined by a period of time after the correct treatment of such diseases, the return of a few aspects: (1) cure; (2) better; (3) better. (1) cure; (2) improvement; (3) ineffective; (4) the condition is not under control, aggravated. The above four kinds of return is objective, according to the doctor and patient hope that the first return to the theory, but also not “needle” to get rid of the disease, we must give the disease enough time to recover, this kind of disease recovery time needs at least three months. Moreover, there are three other cases, so we must always remember that we cannot exaggerate the efficacy of the treatment, or always unrealistically think that only one or two times with the needle knife treatment can be cured for many years of intractable diseases. Once the patient is given such misinformation, giving them high expectations, the result often leads to the patient’s denial of the needle knife therapy and the doctor to doubt and lose confidence to continue treatment. 7, the course of the disease determines the recovery time Any kind of chronic disease has a long period of “latent period”, in fact, is not “sick as a mountain down, sick as silk,” it should be “sick as a silkworm cocoon, sick as people move mountains. Sickness is like a silkworm making a cocoon, and the disease is like a man moving a mountain. In fact, the metabolic cycle of muscle and ligament tissue is about 100 days, in this sense, the efficacy of the platform is the time needed for tissue recovery. 8, the pain is easy to forget is composed of disease efficacy platform factors The patient’s subjective feelings constitute the components of efficacy evaluation. Human beings in the adaptation of the environment and society, often suffered attacks or accidents, in the completion of life and work of labor and inevitably not be injured, these are all to give people the feeling of pain, and even a great deal of pain, such as serious trauma, severe pain, and so on, often unbearable pain, but, when the pain is stopped, people soon forget the pain of the past. Therefore, I believe that “pain is easily forgotten” has a positive effect on us. However, when it is clear that the patient will have this natural state of mind, it is not surprising that the second treatment will not be as effective as the first one, since it is expected that there will be errors in the sensation of the second treatment.