South Campus – Acupuncture and Moxibustion Department Ward 2（哈南分院）

Second Ward of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion

2022.11

Ward 2 of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion at the Hanan Branch of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine is a key department for clinical acupuncture at our hospital. The department has been awarded the title of Advanced Collective of the “Youth Civilization Unit” in Heilongjiang Province. Upholding the philosophy that “great physicians are sincere,” the department adheres to a patient-centered service policy, capitalizes on the distinctive advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, and applies methods such as “benefiting the collaterals and unblocking stasis,” “benefiting the collaterals and resolving plaques,” and “benefiting the collaterals and subduing yang.” Combined with modern rehabilitation treatment methods, and specializing in transcranial repetitive acupuncture, nape acupuncture, and sinew-channel junction-point therapy, it has established a systematic and standardized diagnosis and treatment system and achieves notable results in treating common clinical diseases.

Teaching and Research

Director Huang Liang is Deputy Director of the Teaching and Research Section of Meridian and Acupoint Studies at Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, and the department’s physicians are members of the Teaching and Research Sections of Meridian and Acupoint Studies and Neurology. Director Huang Liang has been engaged in clinical and teaching work for 17 years. He has led or participated in more than ten provincial-level research projects and has received the Third Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress at the provincial level and the Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress among Institutions of Higher Education in Heilongjiang Province. To date, Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion II has published more than 20 papers. The course Meridian and Acupoint Studies taught by Director Huang Liang is a university-level excellent course at Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine. In 2011, he won first prize in the Young Teachers Grand Prix of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine; he has been named an Advanced Individual in Teaching and Educating People at Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine multiple times; in 2012, he received the Teaching Quality Award of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine; in 2015, he received the Best On-Site Classroom Teaching Award and second prize for overall performance in the Third “Chinese Medicine Press Cup” National Basic Teaching Skills Competition for Young Teachers of Higher Institutions of Traditional Chinese Medicine; in 2018, he received the honor of Advanced Individual in the Review and Evaluation of Undergraduate Teaching Work at Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine; in 2019～2020, he received the Teaching Quality Award of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine; and in 2022, he was named an Advanced Individual in Teacher Ethics and Conduct at Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine.

Main Conditions Treated

Ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, and bulbar palsy are conditions in which the department has particular expertise, along with insomnia, headache, dizziness, spinal cord diseases, Parkinson’s disease, facial paralysis, trigeminal neuralgia, cervical and lumbar spondylosis, diaphragmatic spasm, peripheral neuropathies, and other diseases of the nervous system.

Distinctive therapies

The Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion II at the Hanan Campus of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine is guided by “benefiting the collaterals and unblocking stasis,” “benefiting the collaterals and subduing yang,” and “benefiting the collaterals and resolving plaques.” It provides scalp acupuncture, namely acupuncture stimulation based on the functional divisions of the head. Combined with the department’s first characteristic therapy, transcranial repetitive acupuncture, a specific repeated twirling manipulation is used to generate a biological magnetic field, allowing the stimulation to penetrate the high-resistance skull and act on the corresponding region of the cerebral cortex, thereby promoting functional recovery. The second characteristic therapy is sinew-channel junction-point therapy. During recovery of muscle strength in patients with hemiplegia, the upper-limb flexors may have increased tone, making extension difficult, while the lower-limb extensors may have increased tone, making flexion difficult; this falls within the category of “sinew” disorders in traditional Chinese medicine. The Spiritual Pivot, “Great Confusion,” explains that the twelve sinew channels are a system in which the qi of the twelve primary meridians gathers and disperses in the sinews, muscles, and joints. Guided by traditional sinew-channel theory and the modern rehabilitation theory of antagonist muscles, sinew-channel junction points in the upper-limb extensor and lower-limb flexor regions are used, and electroacupuncture is applied to each pair of points to produce upper-limb extension and lower-limb flexion, thereby counteracting this pathological movement pattern of increased muscle tone. This method significantly improves the severity of spasticity, motor function, and activities of daily living. The third characteristic therapy is nape acupuncture. Most patients have a history of multiple cerebrovascular diseases, and when symptoms such as dysphagia, choking when drinking water, and pronunciation and language disorders occur, this indicates bulbar palsy. Because patients were unable to swallow, this was once a major cause of death. Traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture’s nape acupuncture has achieved breakthrough progress in treating bulbar palsy and is at the forefront nationwide. Based primarily on the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture theory of selecting points near the affected area, and combined with anatomy, needles are inserted into new points in addition to the existing acupoints in the nape and neck, including “Blood Supply,” “Swallowing,” “Phonation,” “Treating Choking,” and “Treating Reflux.” This has resolved the problem of severe pseudobulbar palsy requiring nasogastric feeding to sustain life, greatly shortened treatment time for patients with mild disease, demonstrated the unique role of traditional Chinese medicine—especially acupuncture—in modern medicine, and alleviated patients’ suffering.