Clinical Application of Fire Acupuncture

We burn fire needle to slightly red, totally red, even bright and white, then insert with deeply and quickly, superficially and pricking or slowly to certain points or regions, and obtain result to cure diseases. Fire acupuncture has long history, it is important part of traditional acupuncture and moxibustion, fire acupuncture has wide application to treat fluid in knee joints, migraine, dizziness, dizziness, atheroma and herpes zoster, it gets functions to warm up tendons and meridians, stop inflammation and pain, clear toxic heat and soften hardness, other applications include that fire acupuncture with heavy stimulation on Chongyang (ST42) Yuan-Source Point (ST 42) treats tennis elbow; with point injection of Vitamin B12 to treat nervus cutaneus femoris lateralis.

Key words: fire acupuncture, clinical application

Writer: Xiaoying Meng, Keting Zhao
Acupuncture Department, Staff’s Hospital in Hejing, Shanxi Province (043300)