In order to explain this problem, we should start with why acupuncture can treat diseases. Acupuncture is acupuncture at acupoints, moxibustion is warm moxibustion at some parts, and acupuncture treatment is to stimulate the meridian system of human body, adjust the running state of qi and blood, improve the physiological function level of human body and achieve the purpose of eliminating pain. As we all know, qi and blood are the indispensable material basis of human life activities, and there is an inseparable twin relationship between them. Qi is born of blood, which is transformed into blood gas. The smooth running of qi and blood in human body is an important condition for good health. Any disease must have a causal relationship with qi-blood imbalance. Therefore, in the view of Chinese medicine, it is the fundamental purpose of Chinese medicine to maintain the harmony between qi and blood in the body and improve the metabolism level of viscera.
Acupuncture therapy is based on the meridian theory, with acupuncture stimulation as the main means, and achieves the purpose of regulating qi and blood through the conduction of the meridian system. Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy, like other traditional Chinese medicine treatments, is based on dialectical treatment, and adopts the treatment principle of "tonifying deficiency, but actually purging it" to achieve the purpose of discharging excess and tonifying deficiency. First of all, acupuncture has tonic method and purgative method, for example, burning mountain fire is tonic method, and letting the weather cool is purgative method. Using different methods in acupuncture can achieve different therapeutic purposes. Secondly, the triangular needle bloodletting therapy is a purgative method because bloodletting, while the warm moxibustion therapy is definitely a tonic method because of warming. In short, acupuncture therapy is to produce different effects through different acupuncture methods, adjust different body deviations, and achieve the purpose of treating diseases. It should be pointed out that in acupuncture treatment, you should not think that the tonic method is good for your health as soon as you hear it, but that the next method is bad for your health. In fact, in order to make blood flow smoothly, purgation is a very important treatment in many cases. For example, abdominal distension caused by poor digestive tract, you have to use the next method to dredge the digestive tract on Zusanli, and the hyperactivity of liver yang leads to blood on your head. Applying purgation method to Taichong point of liver meridian has the effect of purging liver and suppressing yang. For diseases such as body surface ulcer, blood can be drained near the focus to remove blood stasis and achieve the purpose of cure. These are empirical evidences of diarrhea treatment.
In a word, there are both reinforcing and purging methods in acupuncture therapy, and diseases can be eliminated by different reinforcing and purging methods. The purging method in acupuncture therapy is not terrible, and it is an important means to treat diseases. However, it should be noted that acupuncture therapy regulates qi and blood through meridians, so acupuncture stimulation is irreconcilable when the human body is too weak and qi and blood deficiency is too much, so acupuncture therapy is really not suitable.
Proper acupuncture and frequent reinforcing and reducing are the basis of acupuncture treatment.