Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy is a method of stimulative treatment. And the quantity and quality of stimulation is connected with effects of therapy. Also responses of patient are important. A wrong manipulation not considered with condition of ...
Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy is a method of stimulative treatment. And the quantity and quality of stimulation is connected with effects of therapy. Also responses of patient are important. A wrong manipulation not considered with condition of a patient is apt to cause harmful effects.
The purpose of this paper is recognizing contraindication in acupuncture & moxibustion therapy and preventing harmful effects. This paper refers to character of contracupuncture-point & contramoxi-point and contraindication depends on conditions of patient, meridian points, body regions.
The results were obtained as follows ;
1. Contraindication depends on condition of patient in acupuncture treatment is a alcoholic intoxication, a overstrain, a intense anger, a grate terror, a overeating, a starvation, a thirst, a case of extreme weakness, a high fever, a disease which has tendency of bleeding, after discharge of much body fluid, a pulse and a symptom is seen contrary condition and so on, because it can cause irregular pulse and adverse flow of Qi(脈亂氣逆). Contraindication of moxibustion treatment is a floating pulse(脈浮), a rapid pulse(脈數疾), a accumulation of pathogenic heat in the interior(邪熱內積), Yin-deficiency and interior-heat(陰虛內熱), because moxibustion can reinforce Yang and impare Yin(益陽傷陰).
2. Body region which must treat carefully is surrounding of an important internal organs, a being shallow distributed blood vessel, the ears, the breast and so on. A doctor need not adhere to the contracupuncture-point except for shingwol(神闕 CV_(8)), Yujung(乳中 S_(17)). A docter must acupuncture with care in direction and degree of depth. It is not allowed to carry out festering moxibustion in face and a grate blood vessel. A woman is forbidden to be treated in Sokmun(石門 CV_(5)). A pregnant woman is forbidden to be treated in the abdomen, the lumbo-sacrum, Hapkok(合谷 LI₄), Samumgyo(三陰交 SP_(6)). A child is forbidden to be treated in the vertex when Xinmun(신문) has not been closed.
3. The meridian which shows the highest percentage toward all the number of meridian points in each meridian is the Conception Vessel Meridian(21%) in contracupuncture-point. And in the case of contramoxi-point is the Lung Meridian(45%).
4. There are a lot of contracupuncture-points & contramoxi-points which have character of clearing away heat(淸熱), dispelling heat(泄熱), dispelling fire(泄火).