Is acupuncture and bloodletting therapy for gout effective?

The disease of gout is related to many factors, especially long-term consumption of foods containing too much purine can easily cause gout. In addition, frequent drinking may also cause the disease. Therefore, in order to avoid pain, gout patients need to receive treatment in time. In addition to drug treatment, acupuncture can also be tried. So is acupuncture and bloodletting therapy for gout effective?

TCM acupuncture and bloodletting therapy for gout

Traditional Chinese medicine blood-letting therapy is very effective in treating gout. The acupoints used include: Zusanli, Quze, Yaoyangguan, Shenshu, and Ashi points (gout stones).

Ancient acupuncture treatment medical records

The ancient Chinese medicine acupuncture therapy is also very effective in treating gout. Here is a medical case: Zhang XX, male, 46 years old. He developed primary gout six years ago due to fatigue and alcoholism. The disease starts with sudden severe pain in the big toe joint in the middle of the night, accompanied by fever. After dawn, the joint becomes red, swollen, hot, tender, and has limited movement. After treatment in a certain hospital, the redness and swelling subsided and the joint movement function was restored after three days. Within half a year, the disease recurred and affected the ankles. Although it improved after treatment, it continued to recur frequently, the redness and swelling of the joints did not subside, and serum uric acid often increased. Therefore, he had to follow the doctor's advice and quit drinking and eat vegetarian food, but the attacks did not reduce, so he came to seek medical treatment. Both pulses are stringy and slippery, the tongue is red, and the tongue coating is greasy and slightly yellow.

"Suwen. Discussion on Bi" says: "Wind, cold and dampness mix together and form arthralgia. If the wind is stronger, it is called wandering arthralgia; if the cold is stronger, it is called painful arthralgia; if the dampness is stronger, it is called fixed arthralgia...If this happens in winter, it is called bone arthralgia; if it happens in spring, it is called tendon arthralgia...If the pain lingers between the tendons and bones, the pain will last for a long time." If the disease lasts for a long time and the patient eats rich and greasy food, the cold will turn into heat and form this symptom.

Analogy: The kidney controls bones and produces marrow, the marrow produces the liver, the liver produces tendons, the primordial yang in the kidney warms the spleen and earth and transforms dampness, so acupuncture at Taixi will stop the pain immediately. Imitating "Lingshu. Zhoubi": It comes and goes, stops and stays, and comes and goes...When you prick this, even if it has stopped, you must prick the place and don't let it come back. Acupuncture was performed three more times, and during the two-year follow-up, there was no recurrence of the disease, and the blood uric acid concentration remained below 6.5 mg/mL.