Acupuncture Therapy ; Child ; Humans ; Male ; Torticollis ; complications ; therapy ; Tourette Syndrome ; complications ; therapy

Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Silicosis

The painless needle insertion technique, summarized by Professor WU Lian-zhong during his decades of acupuncture clinical practice is introduced in this article, which is characterized as soft, flexible, fast, plucking and activating antipathogenic qi. The Sancai (three layers) lifting and thrusting manipulation technique is adopted by Professor WU for getting the qi sensation. And features of 10 kinds of needling sensation such as soreness, numbness, heaviness, distension, pain, cold, hot, radiation, jumping and contracture are summarized. Finger force, amplitude, speed and time length are also taken as the basis of reinforcing and reducing manipulations. Moreover, examples are also given to explain the needling technique on some specific points which further embodies Professor WU's unique experiences and understandings on acupuncture.
Acupuncture Therapy ; history ; methods ; China ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Humans ; Needles

Adolescent ; Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Occupational Diseases ; diagnosis ; etiology ; Ulna ; injuries ; Wrist Injuries ; diagnosis ; etiology ; Young Adult

With references of historical materials and modern literature regarding acupoint characteristic, a secondary analysis on the concept, origin, related factors and research methods in present research of acupoint characteristic is performed. The acupoint characteristic should be considered as an acupoint inherent attribute that could explain physiological and pathological manifestations at the same time, including location attribute and function attribute, which is related with time and treatment method. Some re-thinking on acupoint characteristic is proposed as well as advice on further research method and direction, hoping to promote the research development of acupoint characteristic.
Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; history ; China ; History, Ancient ; Humans ; Medicine in Literature ; Meridians

AIM: To observe the immunoregulation of all ogeneic cornea on the human peripheral blood T lymphocytes in vitro. METHODS: After Co-culture of human peripheral blood lymphocytes and allogeneic cornea in vitro, T lymphocytes were labeled by monoclonal ant ibody, and analyzed by fluorescent activated cell sorter (FACS). RESULTS: CD25 expression on T lymphocytes in control was 25.2%, after stimulated by the allogeneic cornea or PDB, CD25 expression on T lymphocy tes was 56.8% and 80.9%, respectively. After stimulated by the allogeneic corn ea, CD25 expression on CD 4+ or CD 8+ T lymphocytes were 67.3% and 52.3% , respectively. CONCLUSION: Allageneic cornea stimulates CD25 expression on huma n peripheral blood T lymphocytes, and the CD25 expression on CD 4+ T lymphocy tes is more prominent than CD 8+ T lymphocytes.

Objective To explore MRI manifestations of incomplete healing of the uterine incision after abdominal delivery.Methods Nine patients with clinical suspected incomplete healing of the uterine incision after abdominal delivery underwent cavitas pelvis MRI scans with 3.0T MRI.Results According to the characteristics of the MRI images,healing conditions of the uterine incisions were divides into 2 groups.GroupⅠwas showed that the uterine incision healed well,the uterine junctional zone and myometrium were continuous,and the incision scar was linear low signal intensity on T2 WI (2 cases,22%).GroupⅡwas showed that the uterine incisions healed incompletely,the uterine junctional zone and myometrium were discontinuous,and the myometrium edema was in some cases with high signal intensity on T2 WI (7 cases,78%).Conclusion MRI could directly displays incomplete healing of the uterine incision after cesarean section,provide the basis for clinical diagnosis and treatment.

Spasmodic torticollis belongs to local dysmyotonia and it is a difficult and complicated disease with unknown pathogenic factor. The clinical effects of medication and operation on it are not satisfactory and there is not a safe and effective therapy for this disease at home and abroad. The authors apply flexibly the theory of treatment based on syndrome differentiation and fully exert the advantages of TCM to analyze the disease from pathogenic factor, disease and syndrome, pathogenesis and so on, and originally create acupuncture at "Wu Xin Xue" for treatment of this disease with Kaiqiao Shunjin method (resuscitation and regulating muscle) as main, clinically attaining satisfactory therapeutic effect.
Acupuncture Therapy ; Adolescent ; Adult ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Humans ; Male ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Torticollis ; diagnosis ; pathology ; therapy

The paper introduces the manipulation and different clinical application examines of the 4 needling methods, oblique needling, horizontal needling, deep needling and transversal needling summarized by Prof. Wu Lian-zhong on the basis of many years's clinical work.
Acupuncture Therapy ; methods ; Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged

Prof. WU Lian-zhong not only has great theoretical attainments and rich clinical experience, but also is good at summarization and study, especially, systematically and deep study on various kinds of pain from etiology, pathogenesis, characteristics, classification and syndrome differentiation, treatment method and point selection and other aspects, and sums up the 12 treatment methods such as regulating mental activities, removing obstruction in the channels, opposing needling, blood-letting puncture, sixteen cleft points, warming the channels, resistant needling, Su needling, surrounding needling, tripod needling, penetration needling and dragon-tiger contending method, which are of very important significance for guiding clinical acupuncture analgesia.
Acupuncture Analgesia ; methods ; Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged