Thread embedding treatment for respiratory diseases

Thread embedding treatment for respiratory diseases is a long-acting external treatment method developed based on the meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine. The clinical remission rate for chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic bronchitis, remission asthma, allergic rhinitis, etc. is in the range of 60%-80%. Currently, it is generally used in domestic clinical practice as a supplement to conventional drug treatment. It does not have a "radical cure" effect and is not suitable for patients in the acute phase.

Two years ago, when I was attending a consultation in a community Chinese medicine department, I met a 68-year-old Uncle Zhang. He had a 12-year history of chronic bronchitis and would suffer from it every October. He coughed so much that he couldn't even take a shower. He carried albuterol with him. Later, he was introduced to suture embedding by an old patient, and he chose it. Bilateral Feishu, Dingchuan and Tanzhong were performed once every 21 days, twice on the day when the temperature was about to cool down. He specially came to me and told me that he didn't have any wheezing this year. He only coughed a few times in the morning. The anti-inflammatory medicine he always prepared in previous years has not been opened.

However, the effect varies from person to person. Last month, there was a patient in his 30s with allergic rhinitis. After two courses of treatment, he still sneezed. When he checked for allergens, he found out that he was allergic to cat hair. He has three cats at home and sleeps with him every day. If this inducement is not removed, let alone suture embedding, no medicine will be of any use.

The controversy over this technology in the industry has actually never stopped. Most doctors with a background in acupuncture believe this. To put it bluntly, it means installing a small stimulator on the acupuncture point that works continuously, extending the action time of ordinary acupuncture from tens of minutes to 2-3 weeks. There is no need to go to the hospital three or four times a week for acupuncture. It is friendly to office workers and the elderly. There are also many domestic clinical studies to prove that for patients with asthma in the remission stage, catgut embedding can reduce the number of acute attacks by about 30%, and the dosage of inhaled hormones can also be reduced. However, many Western medicine doctors in the Department of Respiratory Medicine are more cautious. After all, there is currently no evidence-based medical evidence from large samples and multiple centers to clarify its mechanism of action. If the operation is not standardized, there is also a risk of local infection and excessive stimulation inducing airway hyperresponsiveness. Therefore, most patients will only be advised to try it as auxiliary conditioning under the premise that the control of conventional treatment is stable. It is absolutely not allowed to stop oral medications and inhalants at will.

I have been doing cable embedding for almost six years, and I have encountered many pitfalls. At first, I followed the textbook to select acupuncture points. All patients used the fixed acupoints Feishu and Dingchuan. Later I found something was wrong - for those who usually catch colds easily and get rhinitis when the wind blows, adding Zusanli and Fengmen would have a much better effect. ； If you are usually afraid of heat and cough up yellow phlegm, don't use too deep stimulation, and choose thinner threads, otherwise you will easily get angry. The sutures used now are all absorbable PGA sutures. They are slowly absorbed by the body after being buried for about half a month. There is no need to remove the sutures. Do not take a shower or eat spicy seafood on the day after the procedure. There are basically no major adverse reactions. I have done so many cases, and I have only encountered two or three local redness and itchiness. Apply iodophor and it will disappear in two or three days.

The most annoying thing is that some people on the market claim that "thread embedding cures asthma" and "thread embedding does not require taking medicine." Last year, I met a parent who brought his 10-year-old asthmatic child to the hospital. He said that he had had thread embedding done elsewhere before, but the doctor asked him to stop the inhaled corticosteroids. As a result, he was so breathless that night that he was sent to the emergency room. Later, he was still scared when he came to my place. It must be made clear here: for respiratory diseases in the acute stage, such as those who are having a fever, an asthma attack, or a severe cough due to pneumonia, suture embedding is absolutely not allowed. Suture embedding is for conditioning and cannot save the patient. Don’t think about relying on it to remove the root cause. Chronic diseases related to physical constitution and environment, such as allergic rhinitis and asthma, currently have no radical cure in the world. Thread embedding can help you reduce the frequency and severity of attacks, and make you suffer less. It is already a very good effect.

To be honest, no treatment method is absolutely good or bad, and the same is true for thread embedding. If you choose the right indications and operate with the right specifications, it will be a good thing that can help people. If you make nonsense of it and operate it randomly, it will easily cause problems. If you happen to be the kind of person who suffers from respiratory problems at the same time every year and can control it well with medication but always feels that it is not smooth enough, you might as well go to the acupuncture department of a regular hospital and ask if it is suitable for you, instead of looking for random institutions on your own.