Acupuncture can also lead to the death of patients? Don't underestimate a few silver needles, it is easy to have accidents if you don't use them well.
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Editor: Lingxing
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Usually unwell, some people like to do acupuncture, massage, massage, physiotherapy, cupping, scraping and other traditional Chinese medicine services. These TCM services are considered to be safe and reliable, and at the same time have no side effects, which is highly sought after by everyone.
Especially in recent years, with the deepening of the national medical reform, traditional Chinese medicine services, as the essence of traditional medicine, have attracted more and more attention and love.
However, TCM services also need to be systematically studied and passed before they can be implemented, otherwise, it will not only bring great risks to patients, but also make doctors vulnerable to legal sanctions. Recently, Kang from Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province suffered this result.
Acupuncture causes death from respiratory failure
According to the "Hebei News Network", Kang graduated from primary school and did not systematically study medical knowledge, and carried out acupuncture treatment for customers many times without a physician qualification certificate, a physician practice certificate, and a medical institution practice license.
On June 18, 2019, Cui was unwell, accompanied by his wife, to Zhangjiakou Xiahuayuan Wugu Diet Health Store for acupuncture and moxibustion physiotherapy, the owner Kang successively acupuncture and cupping for Cui, in this process, Cui had difficulty breathing, his face turned black, and his condition became more and more serious.
Afterwards, according to the forensic appraisal center of Hebei Medical University, Cui was diagnosed with bilateral pneumothorax secondary to bilateral lung rupture due to acupuncture, resulting in death from respiratory dysfunction, which is directly related to acupuncture.
In the face of the facts, Kang confessed to his illegal practice of medicine without a license, causing the death of the victim Cui, and Kang was arrested on July 4, 2019 with the approval of the Xiahuayuan District Procuratorate on suspicion of illegally practicing medicine, and the Xiahuayuan Public Security Bureau carried out the arrest.
In recent years, traditional Chinese medicine health care and traditional Chinese medicine health care are very popular, and some unqualified institutions and personnel have begun to provide a variety of health and health care services under the guise of traditional Chinese medicine.
The majority of the people do not realize the harmfulness of illegal medical practice, coupled with the "convenient" and "cheap" characteristics of small clinics, and the misunderstanding that patients have no side effects of traditional Chinese medicine, which has become the premise for the survival of these quacks. And the above-mentioned Tang is a typical example born in this environment.
Today, for all acupuncturists and friends who like acupuncture to regulate the body, we will systematically learn the relevant precautions in acupuncture.
What exactly does acupuncture do?
1. Dredging meridians
The meridians "belong to the internal organs and the external channels belong to the limbs", and the circulation of qi and blood is one of their main physiological functions. The meridians are blocked, the flow of qi and blood is blocked, and the clinical manifestations are pain, numbness, swelling, ecchymosis and other symptoms. Acupuncture can make the blocked meridians unobstructed and play its normal physiological role, which is also the most basic and direct treatment of acupuncture.
2. Reconcile yin and yang
The mechanism of disease occurrence is very complex, but it can be summarized as an imbalance of yin and yang. The role of acupuncture in reconciling yin and yang is accomplished through the attributes of yin and yang in the meridians, the compatibility of meridians and acupoints, and acupuncture techniques.
3. Correct and dispel evil
The process of the occurrence, development and prognosis of a disease is essentially a process of conflict between good and evil. Acupuncture and moxibustion can help the body to uphold righteousness and drive away diseases, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening righteousness and dispelling evil.
Advantages of acupuncture
Acupuncture therapy is clinically based on the diagnosis and treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine to diagnose the cause of the disease, find out the key to the disease, and identify the nature of the disease. Then according to the corresponding prescription of acupoints, the treatment is carried out. By opening the meridians, regulating qi and blood, making yin and yang relatively balanced, and making the functions of the viscera tend to be harmonized, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing and treating diseases.
First, it has a wide range of indications, which can be used for the treatment and prevention of a variety of diseases in internal and external, gynecological, pediatric, and otolaryngology departments.
Second, the effect of treating diseases is relatively rapid and significant, especially with good stimulation of physical functions, improving disease resistance and sedation, analgesia and other effects.
Third, the operation method is simple and easy.
Fourth, the cost of medical care is economical.
Fifth, there are no or very few side effects, basically safe and reliable, and can be combined with other therapies for comprehensive treatment.
Precautions and side effects of acupuncture
1. Acupuncture is not suitable for those who are too tired, highly nervous and hungry; acupuncture for the elderly and infirm should be taken in the lying position as much as possible, with fewer acupuncture points and light techniques.
2. Acupuncture should not be too strong for pregnant women, and acupuncture is prohibited in the abdomen, lumbosacral region and acupuncture points that can cause uterine contractions, such as Hegu, Sanyinjiao, Kunlun, Zhiyin, etc.
3. Children generally do not keep needles due to lack of cooperation. Needles are forbidden in infants and young children's fontanelles, wind mansions, and dumb door acupoints.
4. Patients with bleeding disorders, or those who often have spontaneous bleeding and are not easy to stop bleeding after injury, should not be acupuncture.
5. Skin infections, ulcers, scars and tumor sites will not be acupuncture.
6. The eye area, chest and back, kidney area, neck, abdomen of patients with gastric ulcer, intestinal adhesion and intestinal obstruction, and pubic symphysis area of patients with urinary retention, the depth and angle should be mastered during acupuncture, and direct puncture should be prohibited to prevent accidental injury to important organs.
7. The needle in the abdomen should not go too deep, otherwise it may hurt the organs. This is especially true for young women with thin abdominal walls.
8. The skin at the pinhole should be kept clean, and generally do not get into water for 2 hours after the needle to prevent infection. Use fire needles,, blood or auricular acupoints to treat the area, and generally do not get water on the eye of the needle on the same day. Diabetic patients are prone to skin infections and should keep their skin clean.
9. For patients with real heat and yin deficiency and fever, moxibustion is generally not suitable for treatment, because moxibustion therapy helps yang and warmth, which will aggravate the condition.
10. When hypertension is in a period of severe fluctuations, it is more sensitive to external stimuli, so it is advisable to be cautious.
When should acupuncture be contraindicated?
1. Position contraindications: important organs should not be acupunctured. The place where the large blood vessels pass should be forbidden to puncture. Needle puncture should not be applied to important joints.
2. Acupuncture taboos: pregnant women are forbidden to acupuncture and valley, three yin intercourse, lack of pelvis, abdomen, lumbosacral acupoints. Pediatric no needle fontanelle. The women's needle stone gate.
3. Needles are forbidden for critical illness and poor prognosis. "Inner Diameter" proposes that the five seizures and the five reverse forbidden needles are both meaningful.
4. Anger, fright, overwork, hunger, thirst, sexual intercourse, drunkenness, etc.
5. Caution in moxibustion for serious heart disease.
6. Caution in moxibustion of local redness, swelling, heat and pain.
7. Moxibustion is contraindicated during certain infectious diseases, high fever, coma, convulsions, or extreme physical failure.
8. People who have no self-control ability, such as mentally ill patients, should avoid moxibustion.
9. Makeup and perfume. Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to looking, smelling, and inquiring, and patients wearing makeup and perfume can easily affect the doctor's accurate judgment and syndrome differentiation and treatment.
10. It is recommended to go to the toilet once before acupuncture to avoid discomfort after acupuncture, or irritation of the bladder during acupuncture of the abdomen.
11. Acupuncture must be cautious for patients in critical condition such as hot momentum, profuse sweating, chaotic pulse, and inconsistent pulse syndrome.
12. Patients with acute bone and joint infection, tuberculosis and malignant tumors should not use acupuncture.
From the above situation, we can see that TCM acupuncture not only has strict indications, but also strict contraindications. As doctors, we should be fully aware of this.
Kang in the above is obviously on the premise of not having any basic medical knowledge, holding a fluke mentality, relying on the only knowledge of Chinese medicine and acupuncture to "follow the feeling". In the end, he not only killed others, but also harmed himself.
Here, the author suggests that all fellow physicians, the doctor industry is a business that deals with human life, and any luck psychology is unacceptable, let alone one-sided thinking, human life is critical, and we must be responsible for patients, we must further our own TCM skills, don't be greedy, just get some books to read, I feel that I am very powerful, and casually ask some masters who do not understand and have poor TCM skills on the Internet to cause their own misdiagnosis and mistreatment.
Only in this way can we go further in the medical industry, otherwise, in the end, we can only suffer from ourselves!
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