South Campus – Acupuncture and Moxibustion Department Ward 3（哈南分院）

Ward 3, Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion

2022.11

Ward 3 of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion at the Southern Campus of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine is Ward 4 of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion at the main hospital. The hospital operates across two campuses, and the department operates across two campuses with a dual-core model. It is currently a National Key Clinical Specialty for Brain Diseases, a Key Acupuncture Discipline of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Heilongjiang Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s key specialty department for spinal cord diseases, and a key specialty of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine specializing in spinal cord diseases. The department is equipped with advanced devices, including a whole-chest oscillatory sputum-clearance machine, an aerobic training machine, a brain-function therapy device, a Chinese herbal fumigation bed, and a low-frequency therapy device. It specializes in integrated Chinese and Western medical treatment, highlighting acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of neurological diseases and various difficult and miscellaneous disorders. Satisfactory clinical results have been achieved, and the department is highly praised by patients.

The department follows the principle of putting illnesses first, making treatment the priority, and using prevention as a supplement, safeguarding the physical and mental health of the people of Heilongjiang.

Areas of Expertise

The department specializes in using acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and other approaches to treat common, frequently occurring, difficult, and miscellaneous diseases. I. Diseases of the nervous system, including dysphagia caused by various etiologies: coughing and choking when drinking water, difficulty swallowing, and hoarseness; bulbar palsy (true bulbar palsy and pseudobulbar palsy). Sequelae caused by cerebrovascular disease, including impaired limb movement, language disorders, diplopia, visual-field defects, sensory disorders, cognitive impairment, bowel and bladder dysfunction, emotional changes, pathological crying and laughing, and others; acute facial neuritis and facial paralysis; intractable facial paralysis and sequelae of facial paralysis (facial spasm, synkinesis, and facial-muscle retraction); intractable insomnia and intractable vertigo; various pain conditions, including headache, cervical spondylosis, lumbar spondylosis, trigeminal neuralgia, and postherpetic neuralgia; motor, sensory, and bowel and bladder disorders caused by spinal-cord injury, myelitis, or surgery for a space-occupying spinal-cord tumor; Guillain–Barré syndrome; tremor disorders; paralysis agitans; peripheral nerve injuries (ulnar nerve palsy, radial nerve palsy, median nerve palsy, and peroneal nerve palsy); autonomic nervous-system dysfunction. Spastic torticollis and dystonia. Various sweating disorders, urinary incontinence, and urinary retention. Insomnia caused by anxiety, inner restlessness, and an inability to sit or lie still. Deafness, tinnitus, ear fullness, head noise, facial spasm, and other difficult and miscellaneous disorders. Symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, and physical discomfort caused by a “wealth hump.” Symptoms such as being unable to lie down and feeling restless when sitting or lying down due to cervical-spine discomfort. II. Integrated Chinese and Western medical treatment of pulmonary infections caused by cerebrovascular disease and tracheostomy-tube capping.

III. Acupuncture and medication for depression, irritability, emotional instability, hot flashes and sweating, palpitations and insomnia, dizziness, tinnitus, and other symptoms occurring before and after menopause. IV. Acupuncture and medication to regulate chronic fatigue syndrome. V. Acupuncture and medication for allergic rhinitis. VI. Acupuncture and medication to regulate examination-related nervousness! VII. Classical acupuncture—pulse examination—regulation of qi—acupuncture at acupoints—disease prevention and treatment!

Achievements and Honors

Two new technologies pioneered:

1. A new technology using the “penetrating needling swallowing acupuncture method” to treat post-stroke dysphagia, which received the Heilongjiang Province Medical and Health New Technology Application Award! It solved the problem of the pharyngeal phase of dysphagia!

2. The oral-phase swallowing acupuncture method for oral-phase dysphagia: for example, inability of the tongue to move within the mouth, incomplete closure of the upper and lower jaws leaving a large amount of saliva, inability to chew food, and choking when drinking water. The therapeutic effect is significant.

3. A new technology using the “facial-correction needling method” to treat intractable facial paralysis, which received the Heilongjiang Province Medical and Health New Technology Application Award! It addresses facial asymmetry after facial paralysis, incomplete eye closure, inability to open the eyes, and inability of the frontal muscle to elevate! It also addresses facial spasm, facial synkinesis, and facial distortion after facial paralysis! The clinical results are significant and have received high praise from patients!

4. The new “back-extensor antagonist needling method” technology received the Heilongjiang Province Medical and Health New Technology Application Award! It is primarily aimed at precise treatment of the paralyzed hand, enabling the patient to hold a pen and write!

5. Acupuncture is effective in treating postoperative urinary retention!

6. Acupuncture is highly effective in treating rhinitis!

7. Acupuncture is effective in treating chronic fatigue syndrome!

8. Acupuncture is effective in treating emotional disorders!

9. Chinese herbal medicine is effective in regulating examination-related nervousness in students preparing for the middle-school entrance examination and the national college entrance examination, including low mood, irritability, poor sleep, headache, tightness in the head, and neck discomfort!

10. Combined acupuncture and medication are effective in treating tinnitus and deafness!

11. Classical acupuncture—pulse examination—regulation of qi—acupuncture at acupoints—disease prevention and treatment!

12. A special needling method is effective in treating facial spasm.