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[PureInsight.org] I learned my acupuncture skills from my family going back several generations. My patients near and far know me as a diligent and conscientious doctor. I try my best to deserve that reputation.

My clinic has three treatment rooms. Most of the time things are relatively quiet. My patients are from various backgrounds, comprised of various races, ages and dispositions. For the most part, they come to see me for their back pains, headaches, sore shoulders, pains in their arms, knees, wrists, and ankles, and stomach troubles. But from time to time I do treat emergency cases and complicated illnesses that other doctors feel helpless to treat. You may ask, “Why isn’t a patient in an emergency situation sent to an emergency room, instead of to a Chinese medicine doctor who can only inspect the tongue and read the pulses? Does this not endanger the patient’s life?” People usually misunderstand that Chinese medicine is capable of only treating and curing chronic illnesses. Actually, other than emergencies such as amputations and surgical organ removal because of serious internal bleeding, Chinese medicine is actually the best choice for many urgent and acute illnesses. This is because, 80% of patients who visit emergency rooms are forced to go there because they suffer from symptoms that cannot be controlled, such as angina pectoris, excessive bleeding, heatstroke, coma and asthma. The pains or the symptoms of the illnesses are beyond their tolerance level, and they cannot wait for an appointment that might be two or three months down the line. The patients feel helpless and have to seek urgent help from the emergency services. Acupuncture can promptly treat, control and cure many acute illnesses, and take patients out of danger.

In fact, using acupuncture treatment to treat acute diseases is not a new invention. It has a long history in China. Many such cases are documented extensively in ancient Chinese books. For example, Shi Ji: Bian Que Chronicles described how Bian Que, a famous Chinese doctor who lived during the Period of Warring States, used acupuncture to bring back a prince who had been pronounced dead for half a day. In the book Prescriptions for Emergency Cases written in the Eastern Ji Dynasty, Ge Hong described how to use acupuncture to bring people from heart failure and other complicated, acute illnesses such as cholera. In the book Theories on the Root Causes of Various Diseases written in the Sui Dynasty, Chao Yuanfa wrote how to use acupuncture to treat stroke and other acute heart problems. In Essential Emergency Prescriptions, Sun Simiao of the Tang Dynasty wrote extensively on using acupuncture to treat acute diseases such as stroke, severe vomiting and diarrhea, urinary obstruction, uterine bleeding, lung problems, swollen midriff, snake bite, rabies, epilepsy, and other acute illnesses. He indicated that these treatments were highly successful in clinical applications. Recently, I treated a patient who had a long history of having fevers so high that he would fall into a coma. When his family brought him to my clinic, he had become allergic to all kinds of medicines and his body was covered with rash from the allergic reactions. Doctors of western medicine did not know what more they could do. The patient’s fever just would not go down and he was beginning to exhibit signs of respiratory failure. I used a needle to scratch his ear lobe and let out 5 to 7 drops of blood. In less than five minutes, the high fever was gone. The medical effect was so remarkable that the patient’s family members were astonished.

Why is it that letting go of several drops of blood from the ear by means of an acupuncture needle can lead to something western medicine and treatment cannot achieve? It is because there is a direct relationship between the ear and internal organs. I will cover that in the next installment of this article.

Dr. Li Defu

转自【正见网】
作者：李德孚
我的针灸医术得自祖传，已有几代之久，远近皆知我行医勤恳，从不敢有所懈怠，时刻警醒在心。

我的诊所有三间诊室，大多时间倒也风平浪静，进进出出的不外乎是一些患有腰头痛，肩肘、膝、腕、踝关节扭伤及胃肠不适之症的各种肤色、年龄、性格的病人。但是有时诊室里会突然出现“惊涛骇浪”，进来一个令别的医生退避三舍的重症病人。可能您会问，“这样的病人为什么不送到急诊室？却要去看中医，看舌搭脉的功夫，会不会延误了病人的性命？”在一般人的眼里中医只能治慢性病，不救急；急症病人是西医的拿手好戏。殊不知，除了急需开刀截肢、内脏破裂大出血需摘除内脏或身体某部位的急重病人，中医可以说是急救中能保全性命及身体各个部位的最佳选择。因为80%的人到急诊室看病，是因为某种症状控制不住，象心绞痛、大咯血、中暑、昏厥、哮喘发作等急症，这些病症又超越了自身的忍耐程度，且等不了二、三个月的预约，才在无奈之下到急诊室去“应急”的。而针灸则可以即快、又稳地控制病情，使病人转危为安。

其实针灸治疗急症并不是现代人的新发现，针灸治疗急症由来已久。史记《扁鹊仓公列传》中就有扁鹊用针灸治疗虢国太子，起死回生的记载。东晋年间，葛洪在《时后备急方》中记录有用针灸治疗卒死尸厥、霍乱诸急等急症。在隋代巢元方《诸病源候论》中也有提到针灸治中风及各类心痛急症。唐代孙思邈的《备急千金药方》更是对针灸治疗中风、暴吐暴泄、癃闭、崩漏、吐血、腰肿、蛇咬及狂犬咬伤、惊痫等急症有详细记载，而且疗效很高。
最近，我的诊室里就来了一位有高热昏迷史的急症病人，他对各种药物都过敏，且浑身布满药物疹，西医对他是束手无策。当时病人高烧不退，并开始出现呼吸不畅等症状。我就用针只在病人耳尖处放了5-7滴血，不到5分钟，高热即退。疗效之显著，令其家人称奇。
为什么用针在这耳尖处放血几滴就能起到西医吃药、打针都难以取得的效果呢？
这得从耳与脏腑的关系说起，且听下回分解。

Tags: Chinese Medicine, cure emergency, suddenly occurring disease

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