Treatment on 56 Cases of Children’s Excess Type of Constipation Given by Acupuncture [1]

Posted by : admin on Dec 16, 2008 - 03:53 AM
Acupuncture Clinical Practice / Pediatrics [2]

Children’s excess type of constipation is generally causes by accumulated heat in intestine-stomach and the irregular transmission due to excessively eating spicy and greasy food, we puncture Tianshu (ST25) Front-Mu Point of the Large Intestine [3] which is Large Intestinal Mu Point and Dachangshu (BL25) [4] which is Back Shu Point, accompanying with Shangjuxu (ST37) The Lower He-Sea Point of the Large Intestine [5] to activate Fu Qi, Zhigou (TE6) [6] to disperse and activate qi function, Fu Qi can be regulated due to smooth San Jiao Qi, transmission function becomes normal after Fu Qi is activated. Accompanying Quchi (LI11) He-Sea Point [7] and Hegu (LI4) Yuan-Source Point [8] to disperse intestinal heat, Chengshan (BL57) [9] is experiential point which have the function of adjusting stomach-intestine; Fenglong (ST40) Luo-Connecting Point [10] is Luo Point of Yang Ming meridian, which has function of  pushing spleen-stomach Qi; Shuidao (ST28) [11] (left), Guilai (ST29) [12] (right) are local experiential points which can benefit stools via promoting intestinal peristalsis. Once per day, 5 days are one course, 2 days break between every two courses.

Treatment result: total effective rate is 85.7%

Key words: acupuncture, children’s excess type, constipation

Writer: Yanmin Zhao, Ying Zhang
Baoding city No.1 TCM hospital, Hebei province 071000

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