Acupuncture and Moxibustion Department

Basic information

The Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion was founded in 1956 by Professor Wu Jixian, the national famous TCM acupuncture and moxibustion expert. Upon its establishment, there were a team of national famous acupuncture and moxibustion experts, such as Wu Zhaoxian, Yu Zhongquan, Li Zhongyu, etc. Now we have a chief "973" scientist, professor Liang Fanrong who is also our academic and technical leader, and several famous TCM doctors in Sichuan province, like Hu Lingxiang, Li Ji, Li Yiongkun, etc. We have 8 chief doctors and 6 deputy chief doctors. We have a medical team of 46 staff, including doctors, nurses, and rehabilitation professionals.

Our department is composed of inpatient section, outpatient section, and rehabilitation center. At present, we have 76 beds, and the rehabilitation center covers an area of about 1500 square meters, including traditional rehabilitation section and modern rehabilitation section.

Our department is authorized as the "Sichuan TCM Rehabilitation Service Standardized Demonstration Center" by National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (NATCM), Sichuan key medical specialty, Sichuan Acupuncture Clinical Research Center and also a teaching and scientific research center. Acupuncture and Moxibustion is approved as a NATCM key discipline during the "Twelfth Five Year Plan" period.

Dominant diseases

Our department adopts acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, catgut embedding, and other TCM therapies, combined with modern rehabilitation technologies such as exercise therapy, occupational therapy, cognitive function training, speech function training, swallowing function training, physical factor therapy to treat nervous system diseases, bone and joint diseases, various acute and chronic pain, gynecological diseases and other diseases rehabilitation. Significant efficacy has been achieved. Stroke and sequelae rehabilitation, facial paralysis rehabilitation, paraplegia rehabilitation, cervical spondylosis, and lumbar spine disease rehabilitation are the dominant diseases in our department, and the efficacy enjoys a high reputation in Southwest China.

Scientific Research

We take charge of and participate in 28 national scientific research projects such as the national 973 program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and 25 provincial scientific research projects. Several achievements have won provincial and municipal science and technology progress awards, and more than 100 academic papers have been published. The academic leader of acupuncture led the development of Acupuncture Clinical Practice Guide for Bell’s Facial Paralysis.

Characteristic therapies and techniques

1. Reinforcing liver and stopping spasm method combined with rehabilitation manipulation in the treatment of limb spasm after stroke

2. Awakening the brain and inducing resuscitation acupuncture therapy for mental disorders after stroke

3.Treatment of balance disorder after stroke with Panlong acupuncture combined with rehabilitation manipulation

4. Needle Scalpel in the treatment of joint stiffness and dyskinesia after stroke

5. Acute facial paralysis treated with buccal mucosa pricking blood therapy

6. Three-lines acupoint selection on the face

7. Finger acupoint therapy for facial acupoint

8. Directed iontophoresis

9.Facial acupoint catgut embedding therapy in the treatment of intractable facial paralysis

10. Moxibustion treatment for intractable facial paralysis

11. Ziwuliuzhu timing point selection treatment for intractable facial paralysis

12. Treatment of refractory facial paralysis with four combination therapy of regulating channels and tendons

13.Acupuncture and catgut embedding on acupoint for losing weight

14.Treatment of postherpetic pain with floating needling and red-hot needling

15.Acupoint injection for trigeminal neuralgia

16.Fire dragon moxibustion combined with acupuncture in the treatment of infertility

17.Treatment of neurogenic bladder dysfunction with acupuncture and moxibustion

18.Electroacupuncture for migraine

19.Acupuncture combined with rehabilitation training in the treatment of cognitive and limb dysfunction caused by craniocerebral trauma

20.Auricular acupuncture combined with acupoint application in the treatment of functional defecation disorder

21.Treatment of abstinence syndrome (drug rehabilitation, etc) with acupuncture and moxibustion

22.Acupuncture treatment of Meige Syndrome

23.Treatment of myofascial pain syndrome with milli-blade needle

24.Treatment of hemifacial spasm with milli-blade needle

25.Acupuncture combined with rehabilitation training in the treatment of cerebral palsy in children

26.Modern rehabilitation techniques:

 ★Comprehensive training of hemiplegic limbs

 ★Botulinum toxin injection in the treatment of muscle spasm

 ★Speech function training                

 ★Deglutition training

 ★Cognitive function training                 

 ★Balance function training