South Campus—Geriatric Medicine Ward 2（哈南分院）

Introduction to Ward 2 of the Department of Geriatrics

(2025.2)

This department integrates clinical care, teaching and research and is one of the hospital’s distinctive departments. It combines TCM techniques with modern science, focusing on diagnosis and treatment of common and frequent diseases in older adults, especially emergency and critical, difficult and complex geriatric diseases, as well as outpatient services featuring appropriate TCM techniques. There are 6 doctors and 7 nurses, with a well-structured team. Their specialties include acupuncture and tuina, cardio-cerebrovascular medicine, and integrated Chinese-Western medicine. The clinically experienced, multidisciplinary team improves the ability to manage multiple diseases in older adults. Given multimorbidity, complex conditions and long treatment courses, the department actively uses acupuncture, moxibustion, gua sha, cupping and foot baths for geriatric diseases or symptoms with clear causes and definite efficacy; conducts comprehensive geriatric assessment, geriatric-syndrome diagnosis and multidisciplinary care; and screens inpatients for falls, venous thrombosis, nutritional risk, aspiration and falling from bed. It researches common chronic respiratory and metabolic diseases, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, cardio-cerebrovascular diseases, frailty and sarcopenia, improving clinical efficacy. Applied research in geriatric rehabilitation nursing and function maintenance improves quality of life and is highly praised.

Hou Xinlei, deputy director (department head) of Ward 2, is a medical doctor and an academic successor in the key geriatric-disease specialty of the Heilongjiang Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Academic appointments include executive council member of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies professional committee on integrated medical and elderly care, member of the Geriatrics Branch of the China Association of Chinese Medicine, council member of the Difficult and Miscellaneous Diseases Branch of the China Association for Promotion of Chinese Medicine Research, member of the first Moxibustion-on-the-Governing-Vessel Committee of the Chinese Acupuncture Society, council member of its Immunological Diseases Branch, and member of the Immunology Branch of the Heilongjiang Stroke Association. He leads 3 provincial TCM-bureau projects, 1 Harbin science-and-technology project and 2 Heilongjiang Health Commission projects; has received 3 new-technology awards; published 3 SCI and 3 core-journal papers; developed 1 hospital preparation (Lixue Xiaoban Pills); won a 2024 first prize in the acupuncture group of the Heilongjiang appropriate-TCM technology competition and a 2025 first prize in the professional group of the Chinese Rehabilitation Medicine Association popular-science video competition; and participated in 7 books (listed in the source as 7 chief-editor, 3 deputy-editor and 1 editorial-board roles).

Guided by the holistic TCM view and syndrome differentiation, the department combines Chinese and Western medicine and emphasizes “from the spine to muscles, unblock the Governing Vessel and support yang.” It uses acupuncture with medicines, acupuncture with moxibustion, moxibustion with medicines and electromagnetic-field therapy, plus acupuncture, auricular therapy, foot baths, acupoint application, umbilical therapy, cupping, external herbal application and herbal enemas. It treats geriatric depression, insomnia, bone pain, diabetes, urinary disorders, constipation, epigastric pain, sweating, chest pain, dizziness and stroke, as well as dementia, tremor, palpitations, asthma and edema.

Li Xuzhou is a resident physician in Ward 2 of the Geriatrics Department at Hanan Branch, with a master’s degree in acupuncture and tuina from Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine. He uses classical formulas with acupuncture and special needling for cerebrovascular disease and sequelae, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, frozen shoulder, knee arthritis, tinnitus, hearing loss, headache, insomnia, facial paralysis and shingles, and treats geriatric digestive problems such as indigestion, abdominal pain, constipation, hiccups, nausea and vomiting.

Zhuang Weijia is a resident physician and master of acupuncture and tuina. She treats nervous-system disease and geriatric syndromes with special needling, including cerebral hypoperfusion, cerebral infarction and hemorrhage, peripheral facial paralysis, tinnitus, insomnia, urinary frequency, hypertension, diabetes, medullary paralysis, spinal disease, cervical/lumbar disease and frozen shoulder. She also assesses nutritional status and needs and develops individualized dietary, supplement, enteral or parenteral plans for chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hypoproteinemia and iron-deficiency anemia, helping prevent malnutrition complications such as infection and pressure sores.

Sun Daohuan, a CPC member and master’s graduate in integrated Chinese-Western internal medicine from Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, combines disease identification with syndrome differentiation, classical and contemporary formulas, and internal and external herbal use. He treats tachycardia and bradycardia, palpitations, premature beats, coronary heart disease, hypertension, stroke, pneumonia, acute and chronic asthma, eczema and contact dermatitis.

Niu Yaxin, a CPC member, resident physician and master of acupuncture and tuina, integrates multiple methods for geriatric disease prevention and treatment. She treats stroke and sequelae, tinnitus, insomnia, hypertension, diabetes, medullary paralysis, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, mental disorders, spinal disease and cervical/lumbar disease, combining Western anatomy with TCM meridians. She is especially experienced in endocrine diseases, using Chinese herbs, acupuncture and moxibustion for diabetes, gout, osteoporosis, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, anorexia nervosa and obesity.

Zhao Yunhua is a resident physician and master of acupuncture and tuina. She treats common internal diseases and neurological diseases such as stroke sequelae, hypertension, facial paralysis, dizziness, insomnia, hearing loss, tinnitus, shingles, medullary paralysis, cervical and lumbar disease, as well as prostate and urinary diseases. She uses herbs, acupuncture, cupping and bloodletting for pneumonia, bronchitis and asthma.

Wu Minmin is an attending physician and doctoral student at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine. He mainly combines acupuncture with rehabilitation to treat post-stroke motor and swallowing dysfunction, difficulty removing a tracheal cannula, ophthalmoplegia, cervical spondylosis and lumbar disc herniation.