South Campus – Acupuncture and Moxibustion Department Ward 8（哈南分院）

Ward 8, Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion

2022.11

Ward 8 of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion at the Southern Campus of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine is Ward 2 of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion at the Main Hospital. The hospital operates with one hospital, two campuses, one department across two sites, and dual-core operation. It is one of the key specialty departments for brain diseases in Heilongjiang Province, a comprehensive department integrating medical care, teaching, and scientific research, as well as an advanced collective and model department of the hospital. In 2011, Ward 2 of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion was approved as a key development unit for the provincial-level key specialty disease of Heilongjiang Province—Traditional Chinese Medicine Brain Diseases. The department has distinctive advantages in treating stroke through a combination of acupuncture and medication, and has promoted its acupuncture and moxibustion treatment methods for stroke throughout the country. As a traditional acupuncture and moxibustion department, it has outstanding advantages in treating stroke. For example, it uses characteristic formulas to treat hemorrhagic cerebrovascular diseases; uses intravenous infusions of traditional Chinese medicine extracts to treat ischemic cerebrovascular diseases; and uses distinctive acupuncture and moxibustion methods combined with a series of traditional Chinese medicine decoctions for stroke to treat hemiplegia, aphasia, and bulbar paralysis following stroke, with distinctive features and advantages. The efficacy of the five-in-one method used to treat facial nerve paralysis has been confirmed by clinical practice. The department has developed a series of traditional Chinese medicine preparations, such as Zhongfeng Ting for treating various types of cerebrovascular disease; when combined with acupuncture and moxibustion, tuina, and rehabilitative exercise therapy, it produces better therapeutic effects.

The department's main areas of therapeutic strength include senile dementia, stroke, vertigo, flaccidity syndrome, and facial paralysis. It actively develops specialized disciplines and diseases and promotes the large-scale development of acupuncture and rehabilitation medicine. It specializes in treating neurological disorders such as cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral atrophy, dementia, hypertension, facial paralysis, epilepsy, headache, vertigo, insomnia, autonomic nervous system dysfunction, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, cervical spondylosis, lumbar spine disease, spinal cord lesions, muscle diseases, and multiple sclerosis with acupuncture and moxibustion, traditional Chinese medicine, and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

The department undertakes medical care, scientific research, teaching, and other activities. The department's leaders and the leaders of its key specialty-disease programs hold positions such as vice presidents and council members in important national academic organizations. They have participated in and chaired more than 10 domestic and international academic conferences. As the Teaching and Research Section of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Therapeutics, the department also undertakes clinical teaching. In addition to the routine teaching of undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students, it receives international students and visiting trainees each year from the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, various African countries, Hungary, and other countries for study, making a positive contribution to bringing acupuncture and moxibustion techniques to the world. Ward 2 of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion has undertaken approximately 100 national- and provincial/ministerial/bureau-level scientific research projects, received more than 20 awards, including Science and Technology Progress Awards and Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards, published more than 500 academic papers, participated in the compilation of more than 30 textbooks and scholarly works, trained more than 100 doctoral and master's students from China and abroad, and undertaken scientific research for multiple national clinical pharmacology bases. Hundreds of domestic and international trainees have come to the department for study.