Under the bright lighting, Wu Mingxia wore a light blue mask, a light blue surgical cap, and white latex gloves. She selected acupuncture points, disinfected them, and began to bury the threads. I saw her left thumb and index finger tightening the skin, inserting a needle 8 to 10 mm with her right hand. When she saw that there was no blood returning in the needle, she immediately pushed a 3 to 5 mm long collagen thread under the skin of the acupuncture point, quickly removed the needle, and used sterile cotton Press the ball against the pinhole to stop bleeding. In this way, catgut embedding treatment is performed on 17 acupoints, and one acupoint catgut embedding treatment is completed.
From dressing to acupuncture to removing the needle, every detail and every action is meticulous.
These are the requirements that Wu Mingxia, the first generation representative inheritor of Wu's academic school of acupuncture in Fujian Province and director of the Acupuncture Department of the Second People's Hospital Affiliated to Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has for herself and the school inheritance studio team.
Under her strict requirements, the Wu School of Acupuncture was able to innovate and develop. Today, Wu's school of acupuncture has been passed down for four generations. From generation to generation, people inherit the combination of acupuncture and medicine to relieve patients' pain and save their lives.
From treating a single disease to treating multiple system diseases
Speaking of acupuncture special therapy, the most famous one in the province is "Wu Binghuang Shallow Acupuncture", which was selected into the sixth batch of intangible cultural heritage projects in Fujian Province in 2019.
Professor Wu Binghuang is one of the fifth batch of nationally renowned traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. In 1987, after Wu Mingxia graduated from Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, she worshiped him as her teacher and followed him on medical visits. She devoted herself to summarizing Professor Wu Binghuang’s clinical experience and later formed Wu Mingxia. His academic school of acupuncture.
In early November, at the Acupuncture Department of the Second Affiliated People's Hospital of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (hereinafter referred to as the Second Provincial Hospital), the reporter met Director Wu Mingxia. Wearing a surgical cap and a mask, she only exposed her eyes. She stared at the patient with a burning gaze. She held a needle and was concentrating on treating an elderly patient with post-herpetic neuralgia using shallow acupuncture. During the acupuncture process, she told the students: "It's getting cold, cover the elderly, don't catch cold."
△Wu Mingxia (third from left), the first generation representative inheritor of Wu's acupuncture academic school in Fujian Province, teaches the students finger snapping Essentials of acupuncture
Professor Wu Binghuang’s shallow acupuncture mainly treats cases of insomnia and facial paralysis. Wu Mingxia innovates on the basis of inheritance. One of the outstanding innovations is the use of shallow acupuncture to treat clinically difficult cases, such as post-herpes zoster. Neuralgia.
After properly arranging the treatment of all patients, Wu Mingxia told reporters the story behind the innovative school:
About 20 years ago, there was a male patient with neuralgia on the right side of his ribs due to herpes zoster, which was so painful that his clothes could not touch his skin. , every time I see him, he rolls his clothes up to his chest and holds them with his hands.
I treated him for about 10 days, but the effect was not obvious, so he left and never came back. I felt very sad and kept thinking about him, wondering if he was okay and where he had gone.
A few months later, I met him by chance on the street. I saw that his clothes were no longer lifted, so I went over and asked him: "Has your post-herpetic neuralgia been cured? Where was it treated?" "He told me that he went to a teacher from the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and got cured under the pressure treatment of a magnetic needle (a special device with high-efficiency magnetic therapy pocket needle).
I have tried moxibustion, acupuncture, etc. to treat postherpetic neuralgia, but they were all ineffective. After listening to his words, I thought that I could try using shallow acupuncture for treatment.
So, I led graduate students to do projects, from theory to clinical practice, and kept trying. Later, we overcame the acute phase of herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia.
“Actually, the school of inheritance and innovation needs a goal and thinks in its heart: I want to solve the patient’s pain."As early as 1997, Wu Mingxia once said when teaching undergraduates: Acupuncture must be able to treat multi-system diseases. As long as internal medicine can treat diseases, acupuncture must also be able to treat them!
Over the past 30 years, Wu Mingxia has adhered to this concept, Develop the "Ten Finger Skills" health care method pioneered by Professor Wu Binghuang into a treatment method that can solve clinical cervical and lumbar spine diseases; inherit and develop "moxibustion at Dazhui point and Yanglingquan to reduce erythrocyte sedimentation rate" in the treatment of osteoporosis; apply acupuncture to It can treat multiple system diseases such as the circulatory system, cardiovascular system, urinary system, digestive system, reproductive system, etc.; it has also developed Wu's rhinitis point to treat allergic rhinitis.
Inheritance is a "shortcut" in clinical TCM
How to change chronic diseases. The long and expensive treatment process has been a big problem that Wu Mingxia has been thinking about in recent years.
She led the successors of the school to simplify the acupuncture method.
“For example, patients with chronic atrophic gastritis were treated with traditional acupuncture and had to come every day. In the hospital, acupuncture was performed on acupuncture points such as Zusanli and Zhongwan. Not only does it take time and money, but the results are not particularly satisfactory.
We thought of using catgut burying at acupuncture points, replacing needles with threads, and burying the catguts for 2 to 3 times would improve symptoms such as belching, acid reflux, indigestion, and loose stools. The treatment would be once every 15 days, which is convenient for the patient. , and also reduced medical expenses, truly giving full play to the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine in being 'simple, convenient and cheap'. " Wu Mingxia said happily.
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In order for people to love and use traditional Chinese medicine, it is also necessary to make people accept it in terms of experience.
How to solve the problem of acupuncture pain?
Under the painless treatment concept advocated by Professor Wu Binghuang, the Wu School of Acupuncture created the original finger-flicking acupuncture method in China. This acupuncture method is famous for its speed, accuracy, skill and flexibility. It is highly praised by academic circles and accepted by the masses because it is painless.
Not only does she use needles, Wu Mingxia is also very precise in her medication.
She said that medication is based on accurate syndrome differentiation, which is a basic skill. The reporter learned that she has done a lot from basic research to clinical research, and developed the hospital preparation Tougu Xiaotong Granules for patients with liver and kidney deficiency syndrome.
△Wu Mingxia and her teacher Professor Wu Binghuang discussed the medical records
A combination of acupuncture and medicine can shorten the course of treatment and lead to faster recovery.
But she also emphasized that not every patient needs to be treated with both injections and medicine. “In principle, we streamline treatment methods, improve efficacy, shorten treatment courses, and reduce patient costs,” she said.
The interview ended at 5 pm. The reporter saw that there were still many patients in the treatment room.
This scene reminded the reporter that a few months ago, in the Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation Department of the Moyuan Branch of Jiangle County General Hospital, there was an endless stream of patients all morning, including villagers from the village and people from Shanghai who came here for treatment. Post-herpetic syndrome patients.
Tang Dabin, the deputy dean there and a traditional Chinese medicine rehabilitation doctor, studied in the acupuncture department of the Second Provincial Hospital more than ten years ago. She once told reporters that the training experience was of great help to her and made her skills improve a lot.
There are many doctors like Tang Dabin who are deeply influenced by the Wu School of Acupuncture.
For example, the second-generation representative inheritor Li Li, director of the Fujian Provincial Acupuncture Society and chief physician of the Second Provincial Hospital, the third-generation representative inheritor Wu Rending, deputy director and chief physician of Yongchun County Hospital, and the fourth-generation representative inheritor Shanxi Jia Xirui, the attending physician of the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and students at home and abroad who participate in training courses held by the Wu School of Acupuncture every year and go to the Acupuncture Department of the Provincial Second Hospital every year for further studies.
"Inheritance is a 'shortcut' in clinical TCM. We first inherit the essence and use it clinically, and then innovate and develop clinically."
Regarding inheritance to the next generation, Wu Mingxia said, "Like my teacher, I have no reservations. We teach clinical experience to students for fear that they will not be able to learn it. We teach students to have both medical skills and ethics so that they can save people."
Fujian Health News reporter: Deng Jianyun/Photo
