Acupuncture and Moxibustion Ward V（南岗总院）

Ward 5, Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion

2022.11

Acupuncture and Moxibustion Ward 5 is one of the specialty wards of the Second Clinical Medical College of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, integrating clinical care, teaching, and research. It has 9 doctors, including 1 chief physician, 1 associate chief physician, 6 attending physicians, and 2 resident physicians, and 10 nurses, including 5 nurse supervisors, 4 professional nurses, and 1 nurse. Its staffing echelon is well structured; the team is young and vigorous, has a solid foundation in medical theory, extensive clinical experience, and strong technical capabilities. Acupuncture and Moxibustion Ward 5 has 60 beds and is equipped with advanced medical devices: an electronic biofeedback therapy device, microwave therapy equipment, a moxibustion therapy device, a semiconductor laser, infrared equipment, a dual-low-frequency spasm therapy device, a medium-frequency therapy device, an aerobic training machine, a traditional Chinese medicine directional transdermal drug-delivery therapy device, a shock-wave therapy device, and an adsorption-type point-stimulation therapy device, among others.

Acupuncture and Moxibustion Ward 5 performs a variety of specialized traditional Chinese medicine needling techniques, such as filiform-needle acupuncture, electroacupuncture, mang-needle acupuncture, fire acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, press-needle acupuncture, and yuanli-needle acupuncture, as well as various distinctive traditional Chinese medicine therapies, such as acupoint application, cupping therapy, Leihuo moxibustion, and warming-unblocking gua sha therapy, for the prevention and treatment of acute and chronic cerebrovascular diseases and their sequelae, bulbar paralysis, nervous system diseases, intractable hiccups, depression, senile dementia, migraine, vertigo, tinnitus, deafness, allergic rhinitis, snoring, trigeminal neuralgia, herpes zoster and its sequelae, Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, facial neuritis, autonomic dysfunction, menopausal syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, insomnia, prostate diseases, spinal cord diseases, hyperlipidemia, gout, obesity, and many other diseases, receiving favorable reviews from patients.

In recent years, based on the theories of traditional Chinese medicine and combined with our many years of clinical diagnosis and treatment experience, our department, under the leadership of Professor Jin Ze, the department director, has actively researched and developed a variety of distinctive traditional Chinese medicine therapeutic approaches. Scalp acupuncture, body acupuncture, and paired-needle simultaneous insertion combined with “fire acupuncture” are used to treat increased muscle tone after stroke; fire acupuncture is used to treat anxiety, depressive states, cognitive dysfunction, herpes zoster, and various pain conditions. Water acupuncture, namely acupoint injection, is used to treat cerebrovascular diseases and their sequelae, facial paralysis, neuritis, and other diseases; penetrating mang-needle acupuncture is used to treat tinnitus and deafness; the retained-needle lifting-and-pulling technique with mang needles is used to treat intractable facial paralysis; and mang needles combined with acupuncture movement therapy are used to treat post-stroke motor disorders and urinary and fecal dysfunction. Spirit-regulating and calming acupuncture is used to treat Tourette syndrome in children; acupuncture and nerve-block therapy at the sphenopalatine ganglion, stellate ganglion, and brachial plexus ganglia are used to treat intractable insomnia, allergic rhinitis, essential tremor, brachial plexus neuralgia, and other conditions; symmetric-balance acupuncture is used for post-stroke motor dysfunction and bulbar paralysis. Movement moxibustion is used to treat myelitis and various pain conditions; eye acupuncture is used for optic nerve and oculomotor nerve injuries, among other conditions, and all have achieved good results.