Techniques
How a point is stimulated: needles, current, heat, suction, pressure and light, and what each looks like in a trial.
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Bloodletting
Pricking points to release a few drops of blood: the instruments, the points it uses, what reviews of gout, stroke, shingles and styes report, and the infection controls it needs.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 6 min
Cupping
Cups that draw the skin up by heat or a pump: the styles, what the round marks are, and what systematic reviews and a sham-controlled trial found.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 7 min
Ear acupuncture
Where the ear map came from, how its points are named and stimulated, the NADA and battlefield protocols, and what reviews of ear trials found.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 10 min
Moxibustion
Burning mugwort on or above the points: the forms it takes, what the Cochrane review found for breech presentation, and what studies measured in burns and smoke.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 7 min
Needling and de qi
The filiform needle, the angle, depth and time it is left in, how it is moved, and what trials found when one group was meant to feel de qi and the other was not.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 10 min
Point application
Herbal pastes left on acupuncture points for hours, including sanfu summer application for asthma and allergic rhinitis: what goes in the paste, when it is applied, what the reviews and placebo-controlled trials found, and the skin reactions they recorded.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 9 min
Scalp acupuncture
The fourteen international standard scalp lines, the schools that map the brain or the body onto the scalp, and what reviews of scalp acupuncture trials report.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 8 min