Songbei – Traditional Chinese Medicine Department

The Songbei Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University is a clinical department primarily focused on diagnostic and therapeutic techniques characteristic of traditional Chinese medicine. Under the model of “comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services featuring traditional Chinese medicine” advocated by the state, and based on the holistic view of traditional Chinese medicine, we make full use of the advantages of modern precision medicine theory and characteristic traditional Chinese medicine diagnostic and therapeutic techniques to improve the level of diagnosis and treatment of common clinical diseases. The characteristic therapies of our department mainly include: comprehensive application of Chinese herbal medicines (oral administration, fumigation and washing, hot compresses, iontophoresis, etc.), acupuncture and physiotherapy (electroacupuncture, press needles, warm needling, thread embedding, acupoint injection, etc.), collateral-pricking bloodletting therapy, cupping therapy, etc. Relying on the above-mentioned characteristic diagnostic and therapeutic methods, we provide corresponding traditional Chinese medicine diagnostic and treatment services in the fields of internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, and pediatrics, such as rehabilitation treatment for cerebrovascular diseases, neurogenic headache, peripheral neuropathy, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, postoperative urinary retention, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease in women, chronic prostatitis in men, chronic kidney disease, menstrual disorders, menopause, insomnia, periarthritis of the shoulder, tenosynovitis, facial neuritis, sudden tinnitus and deafness, herpes zoster, etc. We have achieved good results and accumulated experience in pure traditional Chinese medicine treatment and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, and digestive system diseases. Our department has introduced advanced physiotherapy equipment, such as a transcranial computerized rehabilitation treatment device and a Chinese herbal medicine molecular permeation device, which, by regulating the resting potential of cell membranes and the synaptic microenvironment, can inhibit abnormal electrical discharges in the brain, repair damaged neurons, improve limb motor function, and produce other effects.