At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, the Beijing Association for Science and Technology and Xinhuanet will jointly launch the New Year's Eve series of "Small Family Events - Beijing Science Model", which will take us to get close to outstanding scientific and technological workers, enter the world of science, and feel the charm of science and technology. Today, we will take you to Liu Lu, deputy chief physician/associate professor of the Acupuncture Center of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated to Capital Medical University, and winner of the 25th Mao Yisheng Science and Technology Award - Beijing Youth Science and Technology Award.
Character business card: Liu Lu
Deputy Chief Physician/Associate Professor, Acupuncture Center, Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University
Winner of the 25th Mao Yisheng Science and Technology Award - Beijing Youth Science and Technology Award
Origin: Become a Chinese medicine practitioner
If it is said that the opening of the road of medicine stems from a perceptual love, then the teaching of the teachers and predecessors in the clinical direction of traditional Chinese medicine has made Liu Lu's study and work path have a rational firmness. Liu Lu said that her supervisor is Professor Gao Ying of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Professor Gao Ying is engaged in clinical and basic research on the treatment of multiple sclerosis with traditional Chinese medicine, an incurable disease of the nervous system, and over the years, she has saved the lives of many multiple sclerosis patients by using the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine. In the days when she followed her mentor Gao Ying, Liu Lu also made up her mind to use traditional Chinese medicine to treat patients with neurological diseases. In addition to her mentor Ms. Gao Ying, Professor Liu Qingquan of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated to Capital Medical University also had a profound impact on Liu Lu, during her Xi period, Ms. Liu, who was the director of the emergency department at that time, used her spare time to teach the classics to the students, take everyone to read the classics, and apply the classics to clinical practice, which also broadened Liu Lu's clinical diagnostic thinking.
After graduation, Liu Lu went to work in the Acupuncture Center of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated to Capital Medical University. The acupuncture center is "a gathering of famous experts and schools", and many of the most representative acupuncture masters and experts in Beijing work here, including Wang Leting of Golden Needle, He Huiwu of Tube Acupuncture, Yu Shuzhuang of Meridian Differentiation and Syndrome Differentiation, Wang Juyi of Bible Dialectic, He Puren, Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Zhou De'an, National Famous Old Chinese Medicine Doctor. Liu Lu followed the famous old Chinese medicine doctor of the center, and had the opportunity to learn Xi academic ideas of "acupuncture and moxibustion six treatments" of Professor Zhou De'an, a famous old Chinese medicine doctor in the country, and applied it to the treatment of tinnitus, deafness, Tourette's syndrome and other diseases...... This is a period of "lucky and happy days", under the influence of everyone's academic ideas and famous doctors' refined medical skills, Liu Lu began to cultivate and explore his professional field.
Legacy: Exploring how to live peacefully with migraines
As the main person in charge of the first acupuncture-based "headache clinic" in the Beijing TCM system, Liu Lu uses the "headache diary" and the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine for medical diagnosis and treatment.
Liu Lu said that migraine patients generally start in teenagers, and 20 to 40 years old is the age group with a high incidence of headaches. Although migraine is common, it is not a trivial matter, generally speaking, migraine will continue to plague their Xi school life, in severe cases, it may even delay their studies, work, etc., and even worse, it will be accompanied by some long-term disabling injuries, such as affecting people's cognitive function, causing psychological anxiety and depression. Therefore, in addition to the patient's self-monitoring function, the "headache diary" also covers the role of psychological comfort and confidence building.
"In the outpatient clinic, we receive a patient with headache, and first of all, we will confirm the diagnosis of the headache through a detailed TCM diagnosis and neurological examination, and grasp the patient's information, including medical history, symptoms and signs, etc., to determine the cause of the headache. If it is a primary headache patient, he will be asked to keep a 'headache diary' to record in detail the cause of the disease, the nature of the pain during the attack, the medication, the relief, etc., to help the patient understand the disease and self-manage. On this basis, we will propose a personalized diagnosis and treatment plan of integrated Chinese and Western medicine. ”
In order to better diagnose patients, the Acupuncture Center of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated to Capital Medical University has carried out clinical studies on different subtypes of migraine, such as menstruation-related migraine, chronic migraine, and migraine without aura, based on the "headache clinic". Taking migraine without aura as an example, the team conducted a comparative study using an acupuncture-drug combination treatment regimen with the first-line drug flunarizine, and found that the efficacy of acupuncture-drug combination was better than that of flunarizine, and it could improve migraine-related impairment, quality of life and health status of patients. These studies on different migraine subtypes have clarified the advantages of acupuncture in the treatment of migraine, which can effectively reduce the number of headache attack days, improve the quality of life of patients, and have a low rate of adverse reaction reporting, and can maintain long-term efficacy.
Evolution: Aspects of the development of modern acupuncture techniques
Only by clarifying the mechanism of action of acupuncture can we promote the medical diagnosis and treatment of acupuncture and moxibustion to the distance. Liu Lu said, "The traditional theory of Chinese medicine believes that acupuncture is to stimulate acupuncture points to achieve the therapeutic effect of dredging the meridians and strengthening the right and dispelling evil. In modern medicine, although the therapeutic mechanism of acupuncture has not been fully elucidated, it is currently believed that the long-range effect of acupuncture stimulation can be achieved through the somatic sensory-autonomic reflex. Specifically, this reflex first activates peripheral sensory nerve fibers located in the dorsal root ganglia or trigeminal ganglia, and then transmits sensory information to the spinal cord and brain, which in turn activates the peripheral autonomic nerves and finally realizes the regulation of various functions. In 2021, Professor Ma Qiufu's team, together with Professor Wang Yanqing and my postdoctoral supervisor, Professor Jing Xianghong, published a paper in Nature that also supported the above views, providing a modern neuroanatomical basis for the existence of relative specificity of acupuncture points. Liu Lu introduced that compared with traditional acupuncture, modern acupuncture has been improved in terms of clinical, acupuncture research and development, and standardization.
As a young doctor, Liu Lu said that in the context of the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, young doctors shoulder the two important tasks of inheritance and innovation. In terms of theoretical exploration, young scientific research workers should not only inherit the acupuncture skills and academic theories of their predecessors, but also use modern scientific research technology to study the mechanism and mechanism of acupuncture efficacy, so that the "empirical" acupuncture and moxibustion can be "scientific" and develop a comprehensive diagnosis and treatment plan of traditional Chinese medicine that is more suitable for the characteristics of the current era popularize healthy life, strengthen health education, and promote the construction of a healthy China.
Source: Xinhuanet
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