South Campus—Acupuncture Ward 9（哈南分院）

Acupuncture and Moxibustion Department, Ward 9

2022.11

Ward 9 of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion at the Southern Branch of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine is Ward 5 of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion at the Main Hospital; it operates under a “one hospital, two campuses; one department, two sites, dual-core” model, and is one of the distinctive wards of the Second Clinical Medical College of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, integrating clinical care, teaching, and research. Its personnel echelon structure is well balanced, with a young and vigorous team, a solid foundation in medical theory, extensive clinical experience, and strong technical capabilities. It is equipped with advanced medical devices: electronic biofeedback therapy devices, microwave therapy equipment, moxibustion therapy equipment, semiconductor lasers, infrared equipment, dual-low-frequency spasm treatment devices, medium-frequency therapy devices, aerobic training machines, traditional Chinese medicine directional transdermal drug-delivery therapy devices, shock-wave therapy devices, adsorption-type point-stimulation therapy devices, and others.

The ward provides a variety of specialized traditional Chinese medicine needling methods, such as filiform-needle acupuncture, electroacupuncture, mang-needle acupuncture, fire-needle acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, press-needle acupuncture, and Yuanli-needle acupuncture, as well as various characteristic traditional Chinese medicine therapies, such as acupoint application, cupping therapy, Leihuo moxibustion, and warming-and-unblocking gua sha therapy, for the prevention and treatment of acute and chronic cerebrovascular diseases and their sequelae, bulbar palsy, neurological 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 numerous patients.

In recent years, based on the theories of traditional Chinese medicine and combined with our many years of clinical diagnostic and treatment experience, our department, under the leadership of Professor Jin Ze, the department director, has actively researched and developed a variety of characteristic traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods. Scalp acupuncture, body acupuncture, and simultaneous needling with two needles combined with “fire-needle” therapy are used to treat increased muscle tone after stroke; fire-needle therapy is used to treat anxiety, depressive states, cognitive dysfunction, herpes zoster, and various pain conditions. Water-needle therapy, namely acupoint injection, is used to treat cerebrovascular diseases and their sequelae, facial paralysis, neuritis, and other diseases; penetrating needling with a mang needle is used to treat tinnitus and deafness; lifting-and-pulling needling with a retained mang needle is used to treat intractable facial paralysis; a mang needle combined with acupuncture movement therapy is used to treat post-stroke movement disorders and urinary and fecal dysfunction. Mind-regulating and calming acupuncture is used to treat pediatric Tourette syndrome; acupuncture and blockade therapy of 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; symmetrical balance acupuncture is used for post-stroke motor dysfunction and bulbar palsy. Movement moxibustion is used to treat myelitis and various pain conditions; eye acupuncture therapy for optic nerve and oculomotor nerve injuries and other conditions has achieved good results.