Precautions after bloodletting

Bloodletting therapy refers to using a needle to pierce people's acupuncture points and let out a small amount of blood to achieve a therapeutic effect. However, bloodletting therapy can cause great harm to the body. If bloodletting therapy is forced upon patients who are not suitable for the disease, it will only backfire. In addition to choosing bloodletting therapy according to the symptoms, you should also understand the relevant precautions after the procedure.

Bloodletting therapy, also known as "acupuncture bloodletting therapy", is a method of treating diseases by piercing or scratching specific acupuncture points and certain parts of the human body with a needle to release a small amount of blood.

The origin of bloodletting therapy can be traced back to the ancient Stone Age. The earliest written record can be found in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, such as "puncturing the collaterals means puncturing the small blood vessels"; "if the blood is old and swollen, it should be removed to expel the bad blood." It also clearly stated that pricking and bloodletting could treat epilepsy, headache, aphonia, heat and asthma, epistaxis and other diseases. According to legend, Bian Que cured Prince Guo's "corpse syncope" by bloodletting at the Baihui acupoint, and Hua Tuo used acupuncture and bloodletting to treat Cao Cao's "head wind disease".

During the Tang and Song dynasties, this therapy had become one of the major methods of traditional Chinese medicine. The New Book of Tang records that the imperial physician of the Tang Dynasty cured Emperor Gaozong of Tang's "dizziness and inability to see" by bleeding from the top of the head. In modern times, bloodletting therapy is still widely used, especially among the people. Its value is gradually recognized and accepted by people.

Applicable cases

Some blood stasis and cold syndromes, arthralgia, atrophy, low back disease, sciatica, headache, eye pain, thrombosis, juvenile acne, psoriasis, eczema, etc. can be treated with this method. Shen three needles have been used in the clinical treatment of many patients. This method has reliable efficacy and good results.

Treatment

Method: prick the diseased acupuncture points with 3-5 needles respectively, and then apply the cupping until no more blood flows out. During this period of cupping, apply the cupping several times and observe the amount of bleeding. Usually after three pulls, no fresh blood will flow out. If treatment requires, bloodletting can be performed every three days or once a week. The interval between bloodletting must be determined based on the patient's improvement.

So what are the effects of bloodletting therapy?

Antipyretic effect

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there are two main types of fever: one is Yang excess fever, and the other is Yin deficiency fever. The antipyretic effect of bloodletting applies to the former. Because abundant Yang Qi will inevitably lead to abundant blood, bloodletting can reduce the abundance of blood, thereby reducing the evil heat in the blood vessels and allowing the body's Qi and blood to return to normal.

Effects and precautions of bloodletting therapy

Analgesic effect

"If the meridians are unobstructed, there will be no pain" and "If there is pain, there will be blockages" means that if there is a disease with internal pain symptoms, there must be blockages in the meridians. Bloodletting therapy can directly bring out the pathogenic factors that are stagnant in the meridians and adjust the blocked situation. Once the meridians are unblocked, the pain can be stopped immediately. In clinical practice, many acute diseases, such as sore throat and migraine, can be treated with bloodletting therapy, which can quickly produce good results.

Detoxification

The detoxification effect mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine refers to the symptoms that appear when the body is unable to resist the toxic evil due to its own dysfunction under pathological conditions, such as "red furuncle" caused by excessive toxic fire, and sores, carbuncles and ulcers caused by the infiltration of toxic evil. Bloodletting can not only expel the toxins that have invaded the body with the blood, but more importantly, it can restore the body's functions to normal through the effect of "regulating blood and regulating qi", thereby inhibiting the spread and regeneration of pathogens.

Heat-purging effect

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that internal disturbance of fire and heat can lead to a variety of diseases and symptoms, which are often manifested as restlessness, mouth ulcers, limb pain and swelling, irritability, and even fever, coma, delirium and other symptoms. Bloodletting therapy can directly discharge the heat and fire evil with the blood, and is suitable for a variety of heat syndromes.

Anti-swelling effect

Swelling and pain are mostly caused by stagnation of Qi and blood, which causes stagnation of meridians. Bloodletting can directly eliminate the stagnant qi and blood and pathogens in the local meridians, promote the smooth flow of meridians, and thus achieve the purpose of reducing swelling.

Antipruritic effect

Itching is a manifestation of the presence of wind evil in the blood vessels, so there is a treatment principle of "treating wind first by treating the blood, and when the blood circulates, the wind will disappear." Bloodletting is to regulate blood and qi, so that the blood vessels can flow smoothly and the wind evil has no place to stay, thus achieving the effect of dispelling wind and relieving itching.

Relieve numbness

When Qi is deficient and cannot lead blood to the extremities, or when blood is deficient and lacks nourishment, symptoms of numbness often occur. Using fine needles to prick the acupuncture points on the affected limb to cause a small amount of bleeding to treat numbness is guided by the theory of blood circulation and qi delivery, and it has a good effect.

Antiemetic effect

Acute vomiting is mostly caused by excessive stomach heat, liver qi attacking the stomach, or food stagnation. Bloodletting can relieve heat and calm the liver, and has the effect of dredging the downward flow of gastrointestinal stagnation, so it can stop vomiting.