Acupuncture burr method is a characteristic maintenance and Chinese medicine therapy. "That burr, the skin is also floating." This is a method of needling the skin. Because its evil lies in superficial fur, it is treated with floating needle, so it is called "burr" In ancient times, needles were used, but now they are made of leather needles. When stabbing, you should peck like a sparrow and flap it continuously. According to the size of the lesion, you can repeatedly puncture the skin until it is slightly congested, but don't make it bleed. For example, as Su Wen said in Acupuncture Essentials, "Acupuncture of hair will not harm the skin. The burr method is a unique skin needling method, and it is one of the "twelve needling methods" in Ling Guan Shu Needle. It has the effects of dispersing pathogenic factors, harmonizing ying and Wei, removing blood stasis and relieving arthralgia. Acupuncture is characterized by multiple needles and shallow needling. Professor Wu Lianzhong has achieved satisfactory results in treating intractable facial paralysis and other diseases.
Clinical application:
Can be used for treating various chronic diseases and dermatoses, such as headache, hypertension, myopia, dysmenorrhea, neurasthenia, intercostal neuralgia, gastrointestinal diseases, neurodermatitis, skin itching, local numbness (tremor paralysis), verruca plana, alopecia areata, etc. Especially suitable for infants and elderly patients. This paper reports 39 cases of numbness after stroke treated by acupuncture.