The treatment method that sounds scary is actually very simple: the skin of the elbow is routinely disinfected, 4-5 ml of venous blood is drawn with a 5 ml syringe, and according to the patient’s illness, the acupuncture points commonly used are sterilized and injected intramuscularly.
In the 1950s, the Soviet Union also used intravenous blood transfusion to treat this disease. Autologous blood injection is a comprehensive therapy combining acupuncture points, autologous blood, and meridians, and is an extension and development of the combination of acupuncture theory and modern medicine. Autologous blood injected into specific acupuncture points is slowly absorbed in the body, producing a non-specific stimulating effect on the body, promoting the release of more immunoglobulins, enhancing microcirculation, antagonizing histamine, pentazocine, acetylcholine and other active substances, thereby inhibiting metabolic reactions and reducing capillary permeability. Studies have shown that autologous blood injection therapy exerts its immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effects on asthma by inhibiting the expression of IL-13, IL-4, IL-5 and enhancing the expression of IL-10 at the gene transcription level.
Autologous blood is rich in substances: autologous blood has been used for acupuncture injections with some efficacy and there is no dearth of literature on the subject. The mechanism of action is generally considered to be that blood contains many trace elements, antibodies, hormones, enzymes and abundant blood cells, which after injection into the acupuncture points slowly and continuously stimulate the body’s own immune system to induce the release of more immunoglobulins, antagonize histamine, inhibit metaplasia and reduce capillary permeability, improve lymphatic circulation, regulate endocrine disorders, enhance microcirculation, nourish the skin, improve resistance to disease and It can nourish the skin, reduce inflammation and swelling, promote the lesions to subside and stop the exudate, etc.
Indications for autologous blood therapy: very broad. Especially for immune-related diseases, skin diseases, pain, etc. For example, hepatitis, urticaria, acne, digestive gastritis, dysmenorrhea, etc.