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A Preliminary Study on Warm Acupuncture and Moxibustion for Treating Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Abdominal Distension
Published on: September 1, 2023
[Commentary on PU Xiang-cheng's experimental verses of acupuncture and moxibustion]
Xiao-mei Zhou1, Jian-guo Zhoung, Guang-yu Luan
1Chengdu Xinhua People's Hospital, Sichuan 610066, China.
Abstract:
Pu Xiang-cheng, a famous TCM physician in Sichuan Province, were engaged in medicine for dozens of years, with complete and systematical theory and great academic attainments. He summarized whole course of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment by means of verses with easy to be understood and easy to be read aloud, from examination of acupoints, location of acupoints, needling depth, manipulation, reinforcing and reducing to treatment of diseases in departments of internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and five sense organs, etc., and treatment of fainting during acupuncture. This is valuable medical book in recent time and clinically, it has profound inductive significance for later generations.

