What is buried needle therapy

Buried needle therapy is a method of burying acupuncture points for a longer period of time by fixing small, specially designed needles inside or under the skin of the acupuncture points. It is also called intradermal needle therapy. Buried needle therapy can give the skin to a weak and long time stimulation, adjust the meridian organs function, in order to achieve the purpose of disease prevention and treatment. Buried needle therapy is often used for chronic and stubborn diseases that require long stay needles and frequent episodes of painful diseases: 1, immunomodulatory effect: by acting on the body’s neuro-endocrine-immune network system, rheumatoid arthritis, dry syndrome, reactive arthritis and other rheumatic diseases have a better prevention and treatment effect. 2, the regulation of plant nerve dysfunction: insomnia, stomach pain, cardiac neurosis, ulcerative colitis and other diseases have a better therapeutic effect. 3, the therapeutic effect of painful diseases: such as: chest pain, chest tightness, back discomfort, and hypertension, headache, dysmenorrhea, etc. Buried needle treatment method: 1, needle equipment There are granule type ( wheat grain type ) and snap needle type ( peg type ) two. I rheumatology commonly used for the snap-needle type (peg type), its needle body is about 0.2-0.3 cm long, the needle handle is ring-shaped, the needle body and the needle handle is vertical. Because the needle body is very short (0.2-0.3 cm), it is very safe in operation. 2, operation method Intradermal needle, forceps and buried part of the skin after strict sterilization, you can carry out needling. Snap-needle type intradermal needles, pinch the needle ring with forceps, align the needle tip with the acupuncture point and pierce it, so that the ring-shaped needle shank is left flat on the skin and fixed with adhesive tape. 3, the course of treatment Hot days are generally left 1-2 days; cold days can be left for 2-4 days, left during the period, every 2-4 hours or so with hand pressure buried needles 1-2 minutes to enhance stimulation, increase the therapeutic effect.