1.What is fire acupuncture? Fire acupuncture, known as “port pricking” and “burning needles”, is a common method of acupuncture to treat diseases. It refers to the use of special needles with fire to burn red, and then quickly cauterize certain acupuncture points or parts of the body, so as to achieve the purpose of treating diseases. Ling Shu? The “official needle” has a cloud, “quenching prick, prick burnt needle is taken paralysis”; to the Tang Dynasty Sun Simiao in the “Thousand Gold Essentials” officially called “fire needle”; Ming “acupuncture and moxibustion Dacheng” cloud, “the needle on the burning to make red, the use of the party has merit. If not red, can not go to the disease, but damage to people.” Description of the time fire needle has been widely used in clinical. With the development of society, fire acupuncture to inherit and continue to innovate, its clinical application is also expanding, and achieved significant curative effect. 2.What are the functions of fire acupuncture? ① Helping Yang to transform Qi and replenish deficiency, and removing paralysis by removing blood stasis. With the help of fire heat, through the heated needle body, through the acupuncture point will fire heat directly into the human body, attracting Yang to reach the luo, directly stimulate the meridian qi, encourage the operation of qi and blood, internal warming of the internal organs and strengthen Yang qi, can make the qi and blood harmonious; external warming of the meridian and dispersing cold and dampness, so that the qi and blood flow smoothly, to play a role in the prevention and treatment of disease. ② dispelling wind, dispersing cold and dampness, eliminating fetishes and dissipating knots. Through the fire needle burning, can make the needle hole open wide, the needle hole will not close soon after the needle, coupled with the thicker needle, so as to open the door outside the meridians, to give the disease to the way out, then the wind, cold, summer, dampness, dryness and fire and other external evil, as well as blood stasis, phlegm, carbuncle, pus, water and dampness stagnation in the local meridians of the tangible evil, can be directly from the needle hole out of the body, so that chronic diseases can be treated. (3) Clearing heat and detoxifying the toxin, generating muscle and astringent sores and draining pus. “The fire acupuncture can be used to open the external door by fire power, leading to the direct discharge of fire and heat in the body, and because the fire acupuncture can warm up the meridians, help the blood to run, and then mobilize the body’s positive energy to expel the evil in the body, then the congestion of fire and poison dissipated. 3.What are the applications of fire acupuncture in dermatology? The most common viral superfluous organisms are found in young people, mostly on the face and back of the hands. The rash is either scattered or dense, and autoinoculation is common, and the rash can be arranged in a bead-like pattern along the scratches. The flat-tipped fire needles are routinely sterilized and punctured one by one, shallowly piercing the warts, avoiding water for 3 days, and the scabs will heal in about 1 week. Acne, commonly known as acne, acne, pimples, is a chronic inflammatory skin disease of the sebaceous glands of hair follicles. It is mostly seen in adolescence. The lesions are usually found on the face, mainly on the forehead, cheeks and chin. If the lesions are not treated in time or are not handled properly, they will easily leave pigmentation or scarring, which will seriously affect the beauty. Use fire needles to burn until red and white, quickly puncture the pus head area, quickly out of the needle, so that the pus and blood or powder-like material as far as possible to drain. Neurodermatitis, commonly known as “psoriasis”, is a chronic skin disease characterized by paroxysmal skin itching and skin mossiness. It occurs on the neck, extremities, and lumbosacral region, mostly in adults. The skin lesions can be punctured every 1cm-2cm, or the entire area can be punctured. The depth of the puncture to the base of the lesion is appropriate, when there is dirty blood flow, let it flow naturally or use sterilized cotton swabs to squeeze out. After fire needling, moxibustion can be used to promote necrotic material discharge and skin regeneration. Avoid rubbing the puncture site after treatment to prevent infection. Herpes zoster, known in Chinese medicine as “snake sores” and “waist wound fire dan”, is an acute herpetic skin disease with clustered blisters on the skin and pain like fire, often occurring suddenly, with the blisters arranged in a band and appearing along one side of the peripheral nerve distribution area. The herpes can be directly punctured with a thick fire needle, and the damaged areas can be selected one by one along the damaged edges at 4cm-5cm intervals, usually the early-onset herpes is punctured first or in batches, and the herpes is squeezed out with a sterile cotton swab after puncture, or moxibustion is applied locally to dry it. Finally, cupping is performed at the beginning and end of the damaged nerve with plum blossom needle percussion respectively. The pain-relieving effect and can shorten the course of the disease and reduce or prevent posterior neuralgia. ⑤ Chronic eczema, chronic eczema is a common disease in dermatology, multi-morbidity, its lesions are limited, with infiltration, hypertrophy or moss-like changes, the disease is long and prolonged, the current Western medicine mostly use corticosteroids topical treatment, but the side effects are more obvious. We found that the fire for chronic eczema both to open the door to dispel evil, heat out, swelling and dispersion of the local effect, but also to remove moisture, dispel wind, itching of the systemic effect, for eczema effect is significant, the treatment of the choice of Pan Long fire needles in the alcohol lamp flame burned to red or white, vertical rapid puncture lesions, the depth to not exceed the base of the lesion is appropriate, the spacing of about 5 mm. needle after sterilization, can be used externally ointment evenly After disinfection, topical ointment can be applied evenly to the lesion.