The effect of acupuncture for toothache is extraordinary

  Toothache is a common oral disorder caused by various causes of tooth pain, accompanied by swollen gums, difficulty in chewing, thirst and bad breath; or pain that stops at times, pain in response to hot or cold stimuli, swelling of the cheek and other symptoms. It can be seen in gingivitis, periodontitis, dental caries (tooth decay) or fractured teeth leading to pulp (dental nerve) infection, dentin hypersensitivity, wedge-shaped defects, etc. in Western medicine. There is a difference between primary (localized) toothache caused by the direct cause of the teeth and gums themselves (mainly toothache caused by some oral diseases) and concurrent toothache caused by some systemic diseases and psychological factors of the patient.  The Ling Shu – the tenth meridian says: “the large intestine hand Yangming’s vein, …… its branches, from the absence of the basin on the neck, through the cheeks, into the lower teeth …… the stomach foot Yangming’s vein, starting from the nose in the junction of the supersection, next to the nasal The Sun’s vein, which goes down outside the nose and enters the upper teeth.” The “Source of Miscellaneous Diseases Rhinoceros Candle” says: “The teeth are the standard of the kidneys and the essence of the bones.” Thus, the teeth are most closely related to kidney qi, essence, and the Yang Ming meridian of the hands and feet. The “Treatise on the Origin of Diseases” says: “Tooth pain is the pain of the teeth leading to each other, the teeth are the end of the bone, the marrow is fed. If the marrow is insufficient and the Yang Ming vein is deficient, it cannot be glorified in the teeth and is injured by wind and cold, so it is painful.” Toothache belongs to the category of “Tooth Declaration” and “Bone Groove Wind” in Chinese medicine. The cause of the disease is heat accumulation in the large intestine and stomach, or the wind evil attacking the meridians, which is depressed in Yangming and turns into fire, and the fire evil following the meridians to inflame; or the kidney yin deficiency, deficiency of fire to inflame; or the preference for sweet and sour things to cause the spleen to deficient in transportation and transformation, unclean mouth and teeth, dirt and dirt erosion of teeth induced tooth pain.  For upper toothache, take Shimonoseki and Neiting; for lower toothache, take Cheek Car and Sanma. For kidney-related pain, add Taixi; for spleen-deficiency, unclean mouth and teeth, add Sijian. The patient is placed in a supine position with the acupuncture point exposed and routinely disinfected, and the milli-needle is used to pierce 1.2 inches directly in the lower guan, 0.8 inches each in the cheek car, inner garden, and taixi, and 1.5 inches directly in the third interval toward the palm of the hand. The patient should feel soreness, swelling, heaviness, numbness and heat from the inner ankle of the foot to the trunk. The needles are left in place for 20 minutes and then started. Once a day.  The patient will be on one side of the hand palm extension finger natural spread, the doctor thumb index finger pinch hold the patient’s index finger first knuckle, the other hand holding a disposable syringe needle, avoid local veins, quickly pick through the skin layer after the finger squeeze out the light yellow liquid (thin liquid oozing more) to fresh blood, with sterilized dry cotton ball swab off the liquid. If the method and then respectively in the middle finger, ring finger, pinky finger after picking the skin layer to squeeze out the light yellow liquid (clear thin liquid oozing more) to the degree of fresh blood, wipe off the liquid with sterilized dry cotton ball. Keep the needling place clean and forbid wet water for 48 hours. Once a week, alternate between the left and right hands.  Following the principle of “where the acupoints are, where the main treatment is”, we apply the Dragon and Tiger intercourse technique to strengthen the function of unblocking the affected meridians and harmonizing the qi and blood in Xia Guan and Bu Che. The distant channels of the meridians, Sanma and Nei Ting, are taken with the lifting and inserting diarrhea method, which can unblock the hand and foot Yangming meridians and clear the evil of fire and heat. Taixi has the function of strengthening water to eliminate deficiency heat, and acupuncture can make the teeth get full of kidney energy. Pricking at the four suture points not only regulates the weak spleen and stomach functions, but also activates blood circulation, unblocks the meridians, and clears heat and fire, dispels phlegm and stagnation, and fundamentally solves the problem of unclean mouth and teeth and dirt and erosion.