Heart Disease Department Ward 2（南岗总院）

Second Ward of the Department of Cardiac Diseases

2022.11

The Department of Cardiac Diseases II has 15 medical and nursing staff members: 7 physicians, including 1 chief physician, 1 deputy chief physician, 2 postdoctoral fellows, 3 PhD holders, and 4 master’s degree holders; 8 nurses, including 2 charge nurses and 6 senior nurses. It currently has 22 beds and is equipped with multiple specialized diagnostic and treatment devices, including a central electrocardiogram and blood-pressure monitoring station, a dynamic electrocardiograph, a dynamic blood-pressure monitor, a treadmill exercise machine, a medium-frequency pulse therapy device, a microwave physiotherapy device, a pneumatic pressure therapy device, fire-cupping jars, warming moxibustion jars, and others.

Traditional Chinese medicine-specific diagnostic and treatment technologies: We have carried out multiple new external treatment technologies and therapies with traditional Chinese medicine characteristics, including moxibustion, acupoint application, auricular seed pressing, medium-frequency pulse therapy, acupuncture, cupping therapy, gua sha therapy, and pneumatic pressure therapy.

Department Features

1.Herbal paste formulas and water pills

Herbal paste formulas and water pills emphasize the body’s qi, blood, yin, and yang, and advocate “nourishing yang in spring and summer, and nourishing yin in autumn and winter.” Preventive treatment in spring and autumn can effectively prevent disease recurrence, with significant results. For chronic conditions such as chronic heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes, herbal paste formulas and water pills are used flexibly, combining attacking and tonifying, with significant therapeutic effects; they are convenient for patients to take and taste good. For some patients with chronic diseases, especially diseases of the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems, digestive system, and endocrine system that have a long course and are prone to recurrence, they have excellent therapeutic effects. Taking herbal paste formulas and water pills during remission can improve the body’s immune capacity, improve cardiovascular and cerebrovascular blood supply, and reduce attacks during the acute phase.

2. Acupoint application therapy

Through the direct action of medicines on specific acupoints, acupoint application therapy can dilate local blood vessels and accelerate blood flow, thereby promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, reducing swelling, and relieving pain. Medicines can also penetrate through the skin, enter the blood circulation, reach the site of disease directly, and exert their effects. Xu Dachun once said: “Decoctions are not enough to cure every disease… apply a plaster to it, block its qi, make the medicinal properties enter its interstices through the pores, open the meridians and collaterals, either draw it out or attack and disperse it; this is even more powerful than taking medicine.” It is especially suitable for coronary heart disease with angina pectoris, cardiac neurosis, arrhythmia, and other diseases.

3. Auricular seed-pressing therapy

The ear is closely related to the meridians. In the circulation of the twelve meridians, some meridians enter the ear directly, while some are distributed around the auricle. The ear is very closely related to the five zang organs and six fu organs and is an important site connecting the body surface with the internal organs. The arrangement of the acupoints over the entire auricle resembles a fetus inverted inside the uterus. All the internal organs have different corresponding points on the auricle, and the auricle is richly innervated and closely connected with the whole body. When the internal organs or body become diseased, reactions such as pressure tenderness and discoloration often appear in corresponding areas of the auricle. Ear-pressure therapy regulates the five zang and six fu organs and the meridian system by stimulating auricular points, thereby harmonizing the yin-yang balance of the zang-fu organs, unblocking the meridians, nourishing the heart, and calming the spirit. It is especially suitable for coronary heart disease with angina pectoris, cardiac neurosis, arrhythmia, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, obesity, insomnia, and other diseases.

4. Gua sha therapy

The basic principle of gua sha originates from the theory of meridians: it removes blood stasis attached to the walls of blood vessels, which is then reabsorbed into the blood vessels through the blood and excreted in the urine after circulating throughout the body. Gua sha therapy uses certain special tools to provide beneficial stimulation to specific areas of the body surface. The sha marks produced by this stimulation are transmitted into the body through the conduction or reflex action of the meridians, stimulating and adjusting disordered physiological functions in the body so that yin and yang reach a state of relative balance and the functions of the various parts become coordinated, thereby treating disease and enhancing the body’s ability to resist disease. It is especially suitable for coronary heart disease with angina pectoris, cardiac neurosis, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and other diseases.