Yintang acupoint is a strange acupoint outside the meridian. It is generally used to treat forehead pain, chronic rhinitis, hiccups, insomnia, depression, acute lumbar sprain, acute conjunctivitis, pediatric convulsions, pediatric enuresis and other diseases. However, the use of this acupoint to treat stomach problems is rarely reported.
Acupuncture (or acupressure) for the treatment of stomach pain has a significant effect, which undoubtedly expands the scope of treatment of Yintang acupoint, and it is also a new discovery of the old acupoint, netizens who do not use acupuncture can use acupressure, massage, finger moxibustion, and stick needles instead of acupuncture operations, which also have good results.
The Yintang point is located at the midpoint of the line connecting the two eyebrows.
Indications: acute gastritis, chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer.
Acupuncture method: The patient is supine or supine. After the skin of the acupuncture point is routinely disinfected, use a 1-inch millineedle to hold the piercing Yintang acupoint from top to bottom for 3~5 minutes deep. Use the lifting technique to make up for the solid laxative, and feel the soreness and heaviness of the nose. Leave the needle on for 30 minutes, and perform tonic or laxative manipulation every 10 minutes. Acupuncture 10 times is a course of treatment, and the rest between the two courses is 5~7 days.
【Examples of medical records】
Zhang XX, male, 29 years old, was first diagnosed on September 12, 1979. Symptoms such as upper abdominal distension, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and indigestion have been present for two years. He was diagnosed with superficial gastritis by X-ray barium swallow examination in a hospital, and he had taken a variety of Chinese and Western medicines but had not been cured. Moss is thin and white, with stringy veins. The syndrome is liver and stomach disharmony, and the method is to calm the liver and relieve pain, and reduce stomach inversion. Take the Yintang acupoint and apply the laxative method. One course of acupuncture, the disease was reduced by half, and two courses of acupuncture were continued, and he was cured. Follow-up after two years showed no recurrence.
Chronic gastritis is a chronic inflammation of the gastric mucosa caused by a variety of etiologies such as Helicobacter pylori infection. Most patients often have no obvious symptoms or have varying degrees of dyspepsia symptoms, such as epigastric discomfort and pain, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, postprandial fullness, acid reflux belching, etc. The clinical presentation is varied, and the severity of symptoms often does not correspond to the degree of gastric mucosal lesions. Chronic gastritis can be caused by non-standardized, incomplete or even unreasonable treatment, resulting in patients' condition sometimes good and sometimes bad, symptoms sometimes mild and sometimes severe, prolonged and difficult to heal, to many patients, especially middle-aged and elderly patients, bring long-term and great pain and mental torture.
In recent years, the author has used acupuncture and moxibustion in the treatment of chronic gastritis, which has a good effect on rapidly reducing patients' symptoms and accelerating the improvement of their condition.
Acupoints: Yintang acupoint, middle navel acupoint.
Treatment: Conventional acupuncture at Yintang acupoint, flat supplement and laxative manipulation can be done, acupuncture every 5 minutes, and acupuncture for 30 minutes; The middle navel acupoint can be used with point acupoints or moxibustion.
Experience: Although chronic gastritis is a common clinical disease and frequent disease, it is not easy to treat, especially for many patients, but it is often not easy to improve the symptoms.
Yintang acupoint is a special acupoint for the treatment of gastritis in balanced acupuncture, and the single use has a good effect on many patients with chronic gastritis to reduce symptoms and accelerate the recovery of the disease. The stomach is the sea of water valleys and the great source of the six intestines, and the ancients have long warned that the middle navel acupoint "can be used as appropriate for all diseases of the six intestines".
