Gout patients in some remote areas and underdeveloped medical conditions often try some unconventional means to "treat" gout, such as acupuncture during acute attacks, bloodletting, squeezing tophi on their own, and applying honey to the mouth... The results are also mostly unsatisfactory.
And today' teacher Qiao wants to talk about this treatment, many patient friends may not have heard of it, but there are still a few patients who have tried, that is, bee needle therapy.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > past and present lives of bee needle therapy</h1>
Most people have the fear of being dominated by bees, and threatened bees will fight for their lives, attacking other creatures with their tail bee stings, and bee stings will also inject bee venom to make the attacked creatures react with redness, swelling, pain, and paralysis. Some bees have a high venom, and almost every year we can see the news of horse bee stinging dead people.
However, bee venom has a long history of treating diseases, and it has been recorded at home and abroad. In the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic" compiled during the Warring States period, it is recorded that "bee claws are poisonous and can cure diseases"; and cultural relics unearthed abroad also show that ancient Egypt, India, and Rome all used bee needles to treat rheumatism, and later introduced to Russia for the use of successive tsars.
At the end of the 19th century, Western medicine began clinical research related to bee venom, and China also carried out large-scale national research in 1936, establishing a more detailed database.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > Western medicine to see bee acupuncture therapy for gout</h1>
Scientific studies have shown that the bee needle liquid mainly contains formic acid, protein, volatile oil, orthophosphate, histamine, tryptophan, magnesium phosphate, bile venomy, etc., and its main components can inhibit the activity of xanthine oxidase, increase the activity of xanthine phosphate ribose conversion, and reduce the production of blood uric acid in gout patients, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing and treating gout.
Among them, bee venom peptide (also known as bee venom hemolytic peptide) is the main component of bee needle liquid, and it is also the main material basis for anti-inflammatory and analgesic. It promotes the secretion of adrenal corticosteroids in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland through body fluids, resulting in an increased function of the adrenal cortex and exerting an anti-inflammatory effect. Its anti-inflammatory activity is 100 times that of the same dose of cortisone hydrochlorides, which can inhibit the growth and reproduction of more than 20 gram-negative and positive bacteria, and can also kill Staphylococcus aureus that is resistant to penicillin. It is by far the most anti-inflammatory substance known to humans. The analgesic effect of bee venom peptides is also very significant, it can increase the content of serotonin in the brain, and serotonin in the central nervous system can raise pain thresholds and reduce pain sensitivity. Andolapine (also known as andropeptide) in bee needle fluid also has a strong anti-inflammatory analgesic activity, it inhibits anti-inflammatory analgesia by inhibiting cerebroprost synthase (cyclooxygenase), and its inhibition effect is 70 times that of anti-rheumatic preparations indomethacin.
In particular, it is pointed out that bee needle therapy also has a dual immunomodulatory effect, on the one hand, bee needle fluid forms a point of action in the most important and easily damaged nervous system, blood system and immune regulatory system, on the other hand, it forces the body to make an immune response to bee needle fluid. Bee needle fluid is a natural stimulant that mobilizes the body's immune mechanism, and its immune effect on cells is particularly prominent. The diagnosis and treatment of any disease must mobilize the body's immune system, activate the nervous system, and adjust the endocrine system. Bee acupuncture therapy activates this self-healing potential of the body. Clinical practice has proved that bee needle therapy is indeed an effective way to adjust the body's immune system and actively defeat diseases.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > TCM perspective on bee needle therapy for gout</h1>
From the perspective of Chinese medicine theory, gout is the category of "paralysis" of Chinese medicine, in addition to the invasion of wind and cold and dampness, this disease is also due to the fat and thick and greasy of eating on weekdays, so that it contains wet phlegm, damp and hot bets, paralyzing the joint meridians, resulting in poor circulation of qi and blood, and natural pain.
Bee acupuncture therapy is a natural therapy that combines needles and hot medicines. Chinese medicine believes that bee acupuncture therapy can make the patient's qi and blood flow smoothly, the meridians unblocked, the disease and evil leakage, and has a good therapeutic effect on paralysis and pain evidence.
Bee acupuncture belongs to the category of shallow acupuncture in Chinese medicine, but the pain of acupuncture is stronger than that of ordinary millineele stimulation. Through dialectical treatment, the role of acupuncture can be achieved, which can dredge the meridians and reconcile the qi and blood; there is also a burning warm effect, which can warm the meridians and help correct the evil spirits; more importantly, the bee needle liquid injected into the body also has a strong pharmacological function, which can kill bacteria and anti-inflammatory, dispel stasis and analgesia.
The bee needle is specialized from the egg laying apparatus of the worker bee in the bee, and has a double-layered structure formed by the external thorn and the middle needle, just like the natural injection needle. In addition to the short stimulation of bee stings, the most important therapeutic effect is the pharmacological effect of bee venom, which can cause multi-organ, multi-organ, multi-functional and multi-level reactions of the body. Such as the cardiovascular system, blood system, immune system, digestive system and nervous system, as well as joints, muscles, endocrine functions have a direct regulatory effect. Bee needle has both acupuncture effect, and automatic injection of the appropriate amount of bee needle liquid in the skin has pharmacological effect, bee needle secondary local flush congestion has both warm moxibustion effect, is a set of acupuncture, moxibustion, medicine as one of the compound acupuncture method.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > not everyone is suitable for bee needle therapy, and patients cannot operate and imitate on their own</h1>
Although bee needle therapy has a long history of use, through the research and analysis of modern medicine in recent years, it has been found that those with severe arteriosclerosis, postoperative patients, high blood pressure, history of diabetes, history of severe cardiopulmonary disease, liver and kidney dysfunction, acute uric nephropathy, severe allergic reactions, weakness and difficulty in accepting, and those who cannot complete treatment as required cannot use this therapy.
On the other hand, bee needle therapy needs to have a precise control of the time interval and the amount of bee needles, and there are not many doctors who can master bee needle therapy and have strong clinical application experience, and it is more dangerous for individuals to try to imitate at will.
Nowadays, through modern poison extraction technology, bee venom is collected without harming bees, and the active ingredient bee venom peptide is purified and isolated, and then applied to the clinic can reduce the risks caused by traditional bee needle therapy, and can also grasp the dosage more accurately.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > summary</h1>
We should see the unique features of bee needle therapy for the treatment of gout, but we should not blindly magnify and believe in the effects it can bring. For the modern disease of gout, the effect of bee needle therapy is mainly anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving, and if you want to curb the root of gout, you also need the usual strict nutritional control, and even drugs to help lower uric acid and other means to deal with gout, in order to achieve the desired effect.