Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of TCM

Acupuncture and Moxibustion Department I

The predecessor of Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, affiliated with Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was the Shanghai Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic, founded in 1952. In the early development of the Acupuncture Department, outpatient services were the main focus. During this period, many renowned acupuncturists with distinctive expertise emerged, and their academic theories flourished. It became a department rich in TCM characteristics and gathering leading acupuncturists, laying a solid foundation for its development. In the early 1950s, the department brought together renowned acupuncturists from Shanghai and throughout China, including Lu Shouyan, Huang Xianming, Yang Yongxuan, Zhu Rugong, Xi Yongjiang and Dang Boping. The Acupuncture Department of Yueyang Hospital is a key discipline in acupuncture under the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s 11th and 12th Five-Year Plans; it has Shanghai’s key advantageous specialty in TCM encephalopathy, Shanghai’s A-grade specialty in acupuncture treatment of colitis, and the Ministry of Education’s key discipline in acupuncture and tuina (cultivation). It is the affiliated institution of the Shanghai Clinical Medical Center for Acupuncture and Tuina and the Shanghai Key Discipline of Acupuncture and Tuina; it is also the Shanghai base of the WHO Shanghai International Acupuncture Training Center, the International Acupuncture Training Base of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and an internship base for the doctoral and master’s programs of the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The department is a national collaborative unit for clinical acupuncture research, a China Association of Acupuncture and Moxibustion inheritance base, the chairing unit of the Shanghai Association of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, the chairing unit of the Acupuncture Methods and Moxibustion Methods Branch and the Experimental Acupuncture Branch of the China Association of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, a deputy-chairing unit of the National Technical Committee on Acupuncture Standardization, and a deputy-chairing unit of the Acupuncture Standardization Committee of the China Association of Acupuncture and Moxibustion.The specialty has outpatient clinics and wards at the main hospital and Qinghai Road, as well as the medical outpatient department of the Shanghai Institute of Acupuncture and Meridians R esearch. It is currently the largest acupuncture department in Shanghai. Specialized clinics cover stroke, urethral syndrome, chronic colitis, Parkinson’s disease, peripheral facial paralysis, periarthritis of the shoulder, insomnia, rheumatic and rheumatoid diseases, obesity, and gynecological diseases. There are 9 stable advantageous diseases: stroke, facial paralysis, joint diseases (frozen shoulder and knee arthritis), insomnia, perimenopausal syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, and urethral syndrome. The department has refined its clinical treatment experience for these diseases and developed distinctive techniques: (1) “elective, syndrome-differentiated yin-yang balancing through-acupuncture” for sequelae of stroke; (2) acupuncture for facial paralysis (peripheral facial paralysis), combining meridian-based point selection with the three-line local facial method; (3) treatment of frozen shoulder (periarthritis of the shoulder) by combining syndrome-differentiated meridian point selection with local Ashi points and the Hegu needling method; (4) suitable therapy for knee osteoarthritis using adjustable multi-point moxibustion; (5) distinctive treatment of ulcerative colitis with medicinal-partition moxibustion; (6) distinctive acupuncture treatment for diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome; (7) distinctive treatment of Crohn’s disease with moxibustion combined with acupuncture; and (8) acupuncture treatment for dry-eye syndrome. The department also treats and studies difficult clinical conditions involving stro ke (post-stroke increased muscle tone, dysphagia and depression), facial paralysis (localized atrophy and functional recovery of the orbicularis oris on the affected side, post-paralytic facial muscle spasm and synkinesis, and inversion ph enomena), frozen shoulder (the shoulder-contracture stage), Crohn’s disease and atrophic gastritis. These techniques have been applied clinically with excellent therapeutic results and good social benefits.In human-resource development, the department has 2 outstanding young and middle-aged exp erts with notable contributions recognized by the former Ministry of Health, 2 recipients of special allowances from the State Council, 2 national outstanding clinical TCM professionals, 1 Ministry of Education New Century Excellent Talent, 1 Shanghai medical leading talent, 1 outstanding discipline leader in the Shanghai health system, 1 Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Shuguang Scholar, 2 outstanding young medical talents in the Shanghai health system, and 6 overseas study visits. It undertakes the inheritance of the three major Shanghai schools of acupuncture and is an inheritance base for the Menghe School and Xi School, a branch of the Shanghai Lu School inheritance base, a branch of the Shanghai Yang School inheritance base, a protection unit for the “Lu-style Acupuncture” project in the national intangible cultural heritage list, and a protection unit for the same project in Shanghai’s intangible cultural heritage list. It has made important contributions to inheriting and developing acupuncture schools. To preserve and develop traditional acupuncture techniques, the specialty currently has 5 renowned TCM physician studios: Pu Yunxing, Chen Hanping, Zhao Cuiying, Wu Huangan and Dong Guirong. They excavate and summarize the acupuncture experience of senior TCM physicians and emphasize training acupuncture professionals. The various schools have been passed down in the department to this day. The department currently has inheritors of Shanghai’s six major acupuncture schools—Lu, Xi, Yang, Huang and Qin—and their representative inheritors all provide outpatient consultations in the department.Acupuncture outpatient services are located on Ganhe Road in Hongkou District, Qinghai Road in Jing’an District, and Wanping South Road in Xuhui District. The Ganhe Road and Qinghai Road sites have 10 consultation rooms and 80 treatment beds; the Wanping South Road outpati ent department has 25 consultation rooms and 120 treatment beds. After completion of the new medical-technical inpa tient building for the acupuncture ward in Hongkou District, the department will expand to 75 beds and admit patients with various acupuncture indications for examination and treatment, making it the largest acupuncture ward in Shanghai.The acupuncture specialty of Yueyang Hospital has won 2 National 973 Program projects. In the past 5 years, it has undertaken 19 National Natural Science Foundation projects, won 1 second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 first prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, and 1 first prize of the Science and Techno logy Progress Award under the Ministry of Education’s Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements Awards for Institutions o f Higher Education. Based on extensive scientific research, it has abundant research achievements and a strong rate of research-result transformation, exerting important influence and a leading role in the academic development of acupuncture nationally and internationally.