Brain Diseases Department Ward 1（南岗总院）

Introduction to Ward 1 of the Department of Encephalopathy

(2025.2)

This department is a key clinical research department for acupuncture and rehabilitation at our hospital, integrating medical care, scientific research, and teaching. It makes full use of the characteristic treatment approaches of combining “acupuncture and moxibustion–Chinese medicine–rehabilitation” and synchronizing “drug therapy–non-drug therapy and psychological treatment” to treat cerebrovascular diseases and their sequelae, common diseases in older adults, and other neurological diseases, with a particular focus on providing rehabilitation treatment services. The department currently has 8 physicians and 4 nurses. Its professional fields include acupuncture and tuina, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and rehabilitation. It has formed a vigorous medical and nursing team with complementary strengths across multiple specialties, improving the diagnostic and treatment capabilities for encephalopathy and other neurological diseases, relieving the distress caused by disease, helping patients regain independence in daily living as soon as possible, and return to their families and society.

As a clinical research base for acupuncture and rehabilitation of encephalopathy under the hospital’s key development program, the department adheres to the development philosophy of “applying ancient methods in new ways and coordinating Chinese and Western medicine.” It has established a three-dimensional diagnosis and treatment system of “acupuncture as the core, Chinese medicine as the foundation, and rehabilitation as the empowering force,” and is building a modern demonstration center for integrated Chinese and Western medicine rehabilitation that integrates precision medicine, translational research, and clinical teaching. The academic leader and department director lead the clinical backbone team in forming an elite medical team. The nursing team includes nationally certified professional nurses and is equipped with senior rehabilitation tuina therapists, jointly establishing a collaborative service system integrating medical care, nursing, and therapy. Traditional acupuncture techniques are organically integrated with modern rehabilitation technology, drug therapy and psychological intervention are advanced simultaneously, and a closed-loop, full-cycle rehabilitation management system covering the “acute phase–recovery phase–sequelae phase” has been established.

The ward provides a variety of traditional Chinese medicine treatments. Special acupuncture methods, including filiform-needle acupuncture, electroacupuncture, elongated-needle acupuncture, floating acupuncture, intradermal needle embedding, press needles, and plum-blossom needle therapy, are combined with traditional techniques such as moxibustion, auricular acupoint sticking and pressing, bloodletting by pricking collaterals, moving cupping, meridian tuina, and traumatology tuina. These methods are used systematically to treat cerebrovascular diseases such as cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, hypertension, and cerebral hypoperfusion; neurological sequelae such as dysphagia, speech disorders, and urinary and bowel dysfunction; somatic functional disorders such as migraine, vertigo, hearing loss and tinnitus, and chronic fatigue syndrome; and chronic diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, myelitis, essential tremor, postherpetic sequelae, menopausal syndrome, insomnia, and senile dementia. The department is equipped with an internationally leading rehabilitation medicine platform and a complete set of traditional treatment units, including a microwave therapy unit, photonic therapy unit, multifunctional moxibustion unit, low-frequency spastic-muscle therapy unit, medium- and low-frequency thermotherapy unit, swallowing nerve and muscle electrical stimulation unit, transcranial magnetic brain-reflex therapy unit, bedside active and passive lower-limb rehabilitation trainer, motorized standing bed, and traditional Chinese medicine directional transdermal drug-delivery therapy unit, as well as other high-end equipment, realizing the precision and standardization of traditional therapies. Within the framework of the biopsychosocial medical model, this treatment system demonstrates outstanding clinical general applicability. Its lack of drug dependence and suitability throughout the entire course of disease, validated through multidimensional clinical evidence, provide dual benefits of symptom relief and functional recovery, making it a model application of an integrated traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment program.

Professor Zhang Miao, the department’s academic leader, is a Doctor of Medicine, a postdoctoral fellow in integrated Chinese and Western medicine, a doctoral supervisor, and Deputy President of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine. She is currently a reserve leader of the acupuncture discipline of a key high-level traditional Chinese medicine discipline under the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory for the Prevention and Treatment of Encephalopathy with Acupuncture and Medicine, and one of the first group of young renowned traditional Chinese medicine physicians in Heilongjiang Province.

Wu Wenpeng, the department director, holds a PhD in acupuncture and moxibustion and completed postdoctoral training in integrated Chinese and Western medicine. He is the academic successor of Professor Sun Shentian, a Master of Chinese Medicine. He is currently a committee member of the Clinical Acupuncture Professional Committee of the Heilongjiang Physicians Association; an executive council member of the Clinical Chinese Materia Medica Professional Committee of the Heilongjiang Association of Chinese Medicine; an executive committee member of the Encephalopathy Branch of the Heilongjiang Association for Chronic Disease Management; a council member of the Committee on Difficult and Complicated Diseases of the China Association for Promotion of Chinese Medicine Research; a council member of the Committee on Preventive Treatment of Disease of the China Association of Ethnic Medicine; a committee member of the Sleep Discipline of the Chinese Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics; and a council member of the Professional Committee of Chinese Medicine Manipulation of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies. He has led or participated in more than 10 national and provincial or ministerial scientific research projects. He has published more than 20 papers in national core journals and co-edited and published 8 books. His doctoral dissertation was selected as an academic paper in China’s Excellent Sci-Tech Journals. He has received the titles of Outstanding Communist Party Member in the Heilongjiang provincial higher-education system and third prize for postdoctoral funding in Heilongjiang Province, as well as 1 first prize, 1 second prize, and 1 third prize for the Heilongjiang Medical and Health New Technology Application Award. For many consecutive years, he has been named one of the hospital’s “Top Ten Young Physicians” and an “Advanced Individual.”

Wu Wenpeng, director of Ward 1 of the Department of Encephalopathy, holds a PhD in acupuncture and tuina and completed postdoctoral training in integrated Chinese and Western medicine. He is a member of the National Clinical Key Specialty for Encephalopathy. He is a council member of the Professional Committee of Chinese Medicine Manipulation of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, a committee member of the Difficult and Complicated Diseases Branch of the China Association for Promotion of Chinese Medicine Research, and an executive committee member of the Heilongjiang Association for Chronic Disease Management. He has published more than 20 academic papers in core journals, led or participated in more than 10 national and provincial or ministerial projects, and published 7 books. He has received 1 second prize of the Heilongjiang Provincial Government Science and Technology Progress Award, 5 first prizes, 4 second prizes, and 1 third prize of the Heilongjiang Medical and Health New Technology Application Award, second prize in the Heilongjiang Young Medical “Voice” Medical Popular Science Competition, and second prize for a Heilongjiang postdoctoral research project. He is the academic successor of Professor Sun Shentian, a Master of Chinese Medicine.

Conditions treated: He is skilled in using acupuncture and moxibustion combined with Chinese medicine to treat cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, hypertension, cerebral hypoperfusion, dysphagia, hoarseness, speech disorders, diplopia, visual-field defects, urinary retention, urinary incontinence, constipation, Guillain–Barré syndrome, bulbar palsy, traumatic paraplegia, facial neuritis, migraine, vertigo, hearing loss, tinnitus, chronic fatigue syndrome, autonomic dysfunction, epilepsy, cervical spondylosis, lumbar spondylosis, periarthritis of the shoulder, Parkinson’s disease, myelitis, essential tremor, postherpetic sequelae, menopausal syndrome, insomnia, hyperlipidemia, hiccups, peripheral nerve injury, senile dementia, and many other diseases.

Wang Yan, female, attending physician, holds a master’s degree in acupuncture and tuina. She also serves as a committee member of the Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Rehabilitation Professional Committee of the Heilongjiang Rehabilitation Medicine Association, a committee member of the Second Acupoint Thread-Embedding Therapy Professional Committee of the Heilongjiang Association of Chinese Medicine, and a committee member of the Second Oncology Rehabilitation Branch of the Heilongjiang Association of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine. She has 5 years of experience in emergency treatment and first aid, co-edited 2 monographs, and has received the Heilongjiang Medical and Health New Technology Application Award.

Conditions treated: She is skilled in the comprehensive treatment of central nervous system diseases, including cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction; peripheral nervous system diseases, including facial paralysis, herpes zoster, and Guillain–Barré syndrome; insomnia, vertigo, various pain disorders, cervical and lumbar spine diseases, and adjustment of subhealth conditions, using acupuncture and moxibustion, Chinese medicine, acupoint thread embedding, and integrated Chinese and Western medicine.

Tian Peng, female, attending physician, holds a master’s degree in acupuncture and tuina. She also serves as secretary and committee member of the Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Encephalopathy Branch of the Heilongjiang Association for Chronic Disease Management, a committee member of the Acupuncture Branch of the Heilongjiang Association for Chronic Disease Management, and a committee member of the Sleep Medicine Professional Committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies. She co-edited 2 monographs, has published 3 core-journal papers, and participated in 1 scientific research project.

Conditions treated: She is skilled in the comprehensive treatment, using acupuncture and moxibustion, Chinese medicine, and integrated Chinese and Western medicine, of stroke-related neurological diseases, including cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction; spinal cord diseases; facial paralysis, hemifacial spasm, headache, trigeminal neuralgia, herpes zoster, Guillain–Barré syndrome, peripheral nerve diseases, insomnia, sleep apnea, vertigo, hiccups, abdominal pain, constipation, urinary frequency, obesity, cervical spondylosis, periarthritis of the shoulder, lumbar disc herniation, and other diseases.

Wang Fan, female, resident physician, holds a master’s degree in acupuncture and tuina and is a member of the Chinese Acupuncture Association. She studied under Professor Sun Shentian, a Master of Chinese Medicine, and is proficient in Sun-style acupuncture, transcranial repetitive stimulation therapy, meridian-based acupoint selection, antagonistic acupuncture, abdominal acupuncture, and other acupuncture techniques based on modern medical theories.

Conditions treated: She is skilled in using acupuncture and moxibustion, Chinese medicine, and integrated Chinese and Western medicine to treat neurological diseases and common geriatric diseases. She has particular expertise in treating vertigo, cognitive impairment, various pain disorders, including headache, neuralgia, heel pain, and acute sprains, insomnia, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, stroke, facial paralysis, hearing loss and tinnitus, ophthalmoplegia, urinary and bowel dysfunction, obesity, and various sensory-disorder diseases.

Ding Bo, female, resident physician, holds a master’s degree in acupuncture and tuina and is a member of the Auricular Acupuncture Branch of the Chinese Acupuncture Association. She graduated from Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine. During her master’s studies, she published 3 academic papers and participated in 2 provincial-level projects. She studied under Professor Sun Shentian, a Master of Chinese Medicine.

Conditions treated: She is skilled in using Sun-style scalp acupuncture and abdominal acupuncture and has conducted considerable research on various neurological diseases, pain disorders, and skin diseases. She is especially skilled in using external traditional Chinese medicine treatments, including acupuncture and moxibustion, cupping, bloodletting by pricking collaterals, and auricular acupoint application, as well as integrated Chinese and Western medicine, to treat insomnia, chronic fatigue syndrome, cerebrovascular diseases and their sequelae, cerebral insufficiency, facial paralysis, herpes zoster, trigeminal neuralgia, migraine, neck, shoulder, lower-back and leg pain, melasma, allergic skin diseases, and acupuncture cosmetology.

Wang Yangzihe, female, resident physician, specializes in acupuncture and tuina at Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine.

Conditions treated: She is skilled in using acupuncture and moxibustion, Chinese medicine, and integrated Chinese and Western medicine for rehabilitation-phase treatment of neurological diseases, such as hemiplegia caused by cerebrovascular disease, dysphagia, speech disorders, limb numbness, and urinary and bowel dysfunction, as well as facial paralysis, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, postherpetic neuralgia, Guillain–Barré syndrome, myelitis, insomnia, vertigo, joint pain, and other diseases.

Zhang Hui holds a master’s degree in acupuncture and tuina and is a resident physician in Ward 1 of the Department of Encephalopathy. He is skilled in characteristic therapies such as acupuncture and moxibustion, floating acupuncture, heat-sensitive moxibustion, and fire acupuncture, combined with oral Chinese medicine, bloodletting by pricking collaterals, acupoint thread embedding, and neuromuscular facilitation techniques. He has achieved significant results in refractory pain intervention and neurological function reconstruction.

Conditions treated: Neurological disorders: stroke and its sequelae, facial paralysis/hemifacial spasm, and trigeminal neuralgia; pain management: cervical and lumbar spine diseases, migraine, and postherpetic neuralgia; functional regulation: insomnia, tinnitus and hearing loss, anxiety and depression, metabolic regulation for obesity, and rehabilitation of sensory nerve disorders. He emphasizes holistic physical and psychological regulation and develops individualized plans through the combined use of multiple techniques.

Liu Xinyue, female, resident physician, holds a master’s degree in acupuncture and tuina and studied under Professor Sun Yuanzheng, a nationally renowned senior traditional Chinese medicine physician. She co-edited 1 monograph and published 1 core-journal paper.

Conditions treated: She is skilled in the comprehensive treatment, using acupuncture and moxibustion, electroacupuncture, fire acupuncture, needle embedding, auricular acupoint seed pressing, and other methods, of cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, dysphagia, bulbar palsy, macular degeneration, facial paralysis, postherpetic neuralgia, Guillain–Barré syndrome, migraine, insomnia, vertigo, tinnitus and hearing loss, osteoarthritis, cervical and lumbar spine diseases, Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and other conditions.