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Inpatients often feel helpless, but the warm care and excellent skills of the medical staff give patients a sense of warmth and security. From blood sampling to bone fixing to surgery, many medical staff have their own unique skills, which reflects their craftsmanship and pursuit of high-quality medical services.
Photography: Jiang Xiaowei. Editor: Jiang Xiaowei. Reported by reporter Cai Wenjun. Subtitles by Cai Wenjun.
Acupuncture points.
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Dr. Wang Feng from the Acupuncture and Moxibustion Department at Xiangshan Hospital.
Acupuncture is one of the most popular traditional Chinese medicine techniques known to the public. However, most people think of acupuncture as just inserting needles into acupuncture points. In fact, there are many different methods of acupuncture, including “fire needles” and “water needles.”
“Fire Needle” is a treatment in which needles with thermal properties are heated and inserted into the body, combining the benefits of acupuncture and moxibustion.
“Water needle” refers to the injection of medicinal liquid or saline solution into acupuncture points by doctors to enhance the therapeutic effect. In the medical field, it is called acupuncture injection.
“Acupoint injection is the perfect combination of Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine,” says Wang Feng of Xiangshan Acupuncture and Moxibustion.
It was developed in the 1950s when Dr. Li Peicheng of Shanghai Xiangshan Hospital ingeniously combined traditional Chinese medicine meridian theory with modern medicine pharmacology to develop a new form of acupuncture treatment. Doctors inject liquid medicine or saline into the acupoints to achieve longer and better therapeutic effects.
“Li wrote and published the first paper on acupoint injection in 1956 and spent decades developing evidence-based research. To date, acupoint injection has been widely used in the treatment of chronic diseases and rehabilitation therapy,” Wang said.
A woman surnamed Gu was a regular patient at Xiangshan Acupuncture and Moxibustion Clinic. She had been suffering from complications of meningioma.
“I underwent surgery to remove the tumour but have been suffering from complications including loss of movement in my limbs,” she said, “so I came here for acupressure injections and other traditional Chinese therapies. So far, my condition has improved a lot.”
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Acupoint injections are the perfect combination of Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.
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Liquid medicine is injected into the acupoints.
