Ping-heng acupuncture
technique
平衡针灸技术
Ping-heng
acupuncture technique is developed by Dr. Wang Wen-yuan (China).
This acupuncture
technique uses only 38 acupuncture points. It aims to use single
acupuncture points for the treatment, one disease, one point.
More than 80% of the disease/disorders needs only one point. It
is said that this acupuncture technique is to stimulate the
body’s own mechanism to balance the disorder in the life energy
in the body, so no need to use much more number of acupuncture
points.
The overall
characteristics of the Ping-heng acupuncture technique is
(1). Focus on the
single acupuncture point use, as explained above.
(2). Fast insert
the acupuncture needle into the point and remove the needle out
of the point fast too. The procedure for the needling can be as
short as 3 seconds.
(3). Aim to have
a fast effective result. More than 80% of patients can feel
release of pain within 3 seconds. For those of patients who has
short history of disease, with less severe pain, with pretty
stronger body condition, and with young in age, one time of
acupuncture treatment is enough to solve the problem.
(4). Focus on
needle feeling. It needs mostly a insertion technique, though
not requests for supplication or depletion technique.
(5). Focus on
touch nerves during insertion of needle. So, it is said that the
effect of acupuncture is depending on the stimulation of nerve
system of the body. Therefore it emphasizes on the line of the
nerves, rather than acupuncture point. However, the nerves
stimulated by this acupuncture technique is not at all the
nerves that in anatomy associated with the diseased area. For
example, the point for the treatment of low back pain is
actually located in the front head. It is certainly difficult to
understand how to stimulate a nerve in this tissue zone could
release pain in lower back!
(6). Use popular
name for the acupuncture points. The name of the acupuncture
point indicates its main acupuncture function. For example,
lower back pain point works to reduce lower back pain. Headache
point works to reduce headache.
(7). Safe. The
most common side effect is fait during acupuncture. This kind of
technique only need 3 seconds, so that the treatment procedure
finished before patient could develop any fait. Also, most of
acupuncture points are on aims or legs, not on chest of stomach,
so there is very little chance to hurt inside organs by needles.
For all of the
advantages above, this kind of acupuncture technique has been
recommended by Chinese Healthcare authority to be used in all of
the country in recent years.
In a study
involved 336 patients with paralysis with shoulder pain, with
168 patients in control group with traditional acupuncture
treatment, and another 168 patients with the Ping-heng
acupuncture technique treatment. It is reported that the
effective rate with the Ping-heng acupuncture technique is much
better than traditional acupuncture technique. After four weeks
of treatment, the number of patients who reported no pain at all
in the Ping-heng acupuncture technique group is 109, while it is
only 57 patients in the traditional acupuncture group.
Here are some acupuncture points in the Ping-heng
acupuncture system:
(1). Low back pain point: located in the middle of front
head.
(2). Stomach pain point: located 1.5 inch (Note: the
inch means the body inch used by acupuncturist, not the
scientific inch!) down and from the edge of mouth.
(3). Paralysis point: located about 2 inch over the
upper tip of ear.
(4). Hip pain point: in the middle of the after-shoulder
line.
(5). Ankle pain point: in the middle of the wrist line
(palm side).
(6). Stomach pain point: in the sunken that is just down
the
Fibular head.
(7). Allergy point: 2 inches over the upper-inner edge
of patella (bend your knee to find the point).
(8). Wrist pain point: one inch from the middle of the
ankle front line.
(9). Headache point: middle and in between the first and
second metatarsal bones.
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