The basic operation of the needle for the right hand holding the needle, the left hand fixed acupuncture points, acupuncture needle close to the left hand nail surface, the right hand thumb, forefinger force, twisting the needle handle quickly into the patient’s skin, and according to the length of the needle body and needle position is divided into one-handed and two-handed into the needle.
1. One-handed needle: the right thumb, forefinger hold the handle of the needle, the middle finger abdominal position against the lower part of the body of the needle, with the thumb, forefinger force the needle into the acupoints, the middle finger with the thumb, forefinger force flexion, to the required depth can be tied. This method is applicable to the head and face, neck and neck and other shallow points in the short millimeters into the needle.
2. Both hands into the needle:
① finger cut into the needle: short millimetre needle acupuncture joints and muscle fullness and other acupuncture points that need to be located, the left thumb nail edge of the left hand in a cross-shaped cut pinch acupuncture points to mark, the right hand holding the needle along the edge of the left thumb nail to quickly stab the needle into the subcutaneous.
② pinch into the needle: for the ring jump points and other parts of the long needle into the needle need to work with both hands, the left thumb, forefinger pinch the lower part of the acupuncture needle, the tip of the needle is fixed in the skin above the acupuncture point, the right hand holding the needle handle, vertical needle body, the left and right hands at the same time to force the needle into the skin.
(3) Pinch the needle into the needle: yintang point and other muscle surface skin and flesh shallow parts of the acupuncture point need to pinch the left thumb, forefinger, two fingers will pinch the needle acupuncture point parts of the skin, the right hand holding the needle, from the pinch of the skin to the upper end of the needle into the.
④ stretch into the needle: for the abdomen and other parts of loose skin or wrinkles, you need to use the index finger, middle finger to the skin to both sides of the support, so that the skin needle site taut, the right hand holding the needle into.
Warm reminder: needles need to go to the regular Chinese medicine clinic for operation, and needles should be sterilized before the hand and skin parts.