How to use Acupuncture to Treat Vitiligo?

Acupuncture is a Traditional Chinese Treatment that includes both “Acupuncture” and “Moxibustion”. It is a treatment method to prevent and treat diseases by adjusting the function of qi and blood in meridians and organs through acupuncture and moxibustion. The acupuncture treatment of vitiligo is based on the theory of Chinese medicine's internal organs and meridians, using the "four diagnoses" "eight outlines" dialectic method, the clinical different symptoms to summarize, synthesize, analysis, in order to clarify the cause of the disease, the location of the disease is in the organs, in the internal organs, in the table, in the vitiligo symptoms of the properties of cold, is hot, is a deficiency, is real.

The is that there are many acupuncture, and fire needle treatment vitiligo reports, need to emphasize, acupuncture treatment vitiligo has a certain efficacy, but pay attention to the progressive vitiligo caution with acupuncture, is likely to regenerate white spots on the eye of the needle, vitiligo patients trauma triggered vitiligo is not rare. It is observed clinically that acupuncture is more effective for patients whose white spots are distributed along the meridians regularly.

1. Acupuncture

The physician uses modified fire needles to treat vitiligo with better efficacy, the specific method: when acupuncture, with red-hot needles, quickly stabbed into the selected acupuncture points, that is, quickly out of the needle. The depth of fire needling depends on the patient's condition, physique, age, the thickness of the muscles, and depth of the blood vessels in the needling area.

2. Fire Acupuncture

Some scholars use fire acupuncture to puncture the diseased area, together with fire acupuncture to puncture the points of the “Governor's Vessel” and the points of the “Ren Vessel”. In cases of Yang deficiency, the acupuncture points are added; in cases of Spleen and Stomach deficiency, the acupuncture points of Dorsal Yu and Abdominal Collection are added; in cases of Liver Qi deficiency, the acupuncture points of Neiguan, Gongsun, Feosanli, and Taichong are added with milli-needles to achieve better results.

3. Plum Blossom Acupuncture

After local skin cleaning and disinfection, apply 2% tincture of iodine, then tincture of bone marrow, and then perform plum blossom acupuncture, until there is a small amount of bleeding, then apply tincture of psoralen (Bu Gu Zhi), etc.