Enlightenment and thinking on deqi (arrival of needling sensation) by abdominal acupuncture

Enlightened by clinical practice of new acupuncture techniques such as abdominal acupuncture, different recognitions on deqi (arrival of needling sensation), namely qi sensation under the tip of the needles and qi sensation at the affected region were analyzed in this article. The cause and effect r...

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Published inZhōngguó zhēnjiǔ Vol. 31; no. 2; p. 183
Main Author Wang, Yong-Zhou
Format Journal Article
LanguageChinese
Published China 01.02.2011
Subjects
Abdomen
Acupuncture Therapy
Humans
Qi
Sensation
Thinking
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Summary:Enlightened by clinical practice of new acupuncture techniques such as abdominal acupuncture, different recognitions on deqi (arrival of needling sensation), namely qi sensation under the tip of the needles and qi sensation at the affected region were analyzed in this article. The cause and effect relation of arrival of the qi sensation and effectiveness was unscrambled. Varying from the commonly accepted concept of qi sensation, a new concept of latent needling sensation which took the clinical effectiveness as the standard is proposed as a result to provide theoretical preparations for the clinical practice of painlessness acupuncture.
ISSN:0255-2930