The use of gold needles and silver needles for the treatment of injuries and illnesses in ancient China has a long history, and is said to have been developed from the ancient “nine needles”, namely the lifting needle and the long needle. The Chinese ancestors created a system of Chinese medicine (Chinese medical theory, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and moxibustion), in which acupuncture occupies a relatively unique position. To date, acupuncture for pain relief and even for the treatment of pain is precisely a household name and has been widely spread around the world. However, we know little about silver needle acupuncture therapy, which has unique long-term efficacy in the treatment of pain, and it is only used by folk doctors in the south.
The use of silver needles (made of silver) for intensive acupuncture therapy, which has been handed down from folklore, has achieved unexpected results. It has both a strong analgesic effect and a long term effect on pain. Where by the needles are produced by the site of lasting muscle relaxation effect, that is, people difficult to deal with the phenomenon of muscle spasm caused by pain is lifted.
A, the production specifications and characteristics of silver needles
(A) production specifications
Silver needle more than 85% silver and mixed with a little copper, chromium alloy smelting, by the extraction of segments, needle thickness of about 1.0-1.1mm, needle handle with fine silver wire for tight spiral winding, needle end pointed but not sharp, needle tail welded into a small round ball. The length of the needle handle is 5-6cm, and the length of the needle body is divided into five specifications of 6, 8, 10, 12 and 15cm, which can be adapted to different parts of the human body. Depending on the thickness of the muscle thin degree, the direction of the needle through the muscle depth selected different specifications of the silver needle. Generally speaking, the waist and hip muscle full parts choose longer needles, followed by the back of the neck, around the joints can choose a shorter needle.
(II) Treatment characteristics
1, myofascial attachment point (area) on the bone, rather than the general concept of needling involving acupuncture points. Therefore, the silver needle needling than ordinary acupuncture site deep in and a large range.
2, the needle body is thicker. The diameter is 1.0-1.1mm, which will not cause broken needles or stagnant needles due to excessive muscle contraction. Ordinary stainless steel needle, because of its thin diameter and hard texture, if the needle into the deep tissue, once due to strong muscle contraction reaction, it is easy to break or stagnant needle, resulting in accidents.
3, the texture is soft. Silver as the main raw material of the silver needle texture is soft, this feature determines the needle can be bent along the bone concave surface of the periosteum to advance without breaking, which is conducive to the needling of longer distances, in order to expand the treatment surface, and easy to accurately stab to the site of pain.
4, heat transfer effect is fast. Silver needle acupuncture also need to be heated with moxa burning, due to the conductive heat of silver fast, small resistance, and the needle body tip temperature is not very high, the patient only feel local warmth more comfortable. According to the results of animal experiments at the Institute of Physiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the temperature of the needle body outside the body was measured at the tail of the silver needle when the moxa ball was burned as greater than 100°C, and the temperature of the needle body pierced into the skin was 55°C, and the temperature of the needle tip was 39-41°C. This heat energy is transmitted to the deep painful parts and spread to the surrounding soft tissue, according to the number of needles, the degree of density to form a deep penetration of muscle tissue directly to the periosteum of the thermal response, which is generally incomparable to physical therapy.
II. Indications and contraindications
(A) Indications
1.Chronic pain caused by soft tissue damage outside the cervical spinal canal or lumbar spinal canal
(1) neck, shoulder and arm pain.
(2) lumbar hip and leg pain.
(3) head and facial pain.
(4) frozen shoulder.
(5) knee pain.
(6) Heel pain.
2. Clinical symptoms of vascular nerve involvement associated with soft tissue damage
(1) hemianesthesia, coldness, sweating, or coldness of the upper and lower extremities.
(2) Dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus, blurred vision.
(3) Sudden collapse, head woodiness, eye swelling, difficulty in opening mouth.
3.Signs of organ dysfunction related to soft tissue damage
(1) dysmenorrhea, impotence, genital pain
(2) Chest tightness, shortness of breath, insomnia, palpitations.
(3) abdominal distension, abdominal pain, constipation.
(4) urinary frequency, urinary urgency, weakness of urination.
(II) Contraindications
1.Severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, renal failure.
(2) Those who are menstruating, pregnant or debilitated by anemia
3.People with blood diseases such as thrombocytopenia or those with bleeding tendency.