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Textbook Prescriptions Febrile Disease

Essentials of Chinese Acupuncture (Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing Colleges of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1980) — the standard prescriptions of the Chinese colleges.

Points

TE5 Waiguan bilateral

Luo-Connecting point of the Sanjiao; clears heat from the Sanjiao channel

Superficial, reducing.
TE17 Yifeng affected side

Sanjiao point behind the earlobe; local point that opens the channels over the parotid

Superficial, reducing.
ST6 Jiache affected side

Stomach point at the angle of the jaw; local point that relieves swelling and pain

Superficial, reducing.
LI11 Quchi bilateral

He-Sea of the Large Intestine; clears heat from the channel

Superficial, reducing.
LI4 Hegu bilateral

Yuan-Source of the Large Intestine; clears heat from the channel

Superficial, reducing.
- Pregnancy: contraindicated

Needling Safety

Cited hazards for these points. Tick what applies to the patient to see the cautions that follow from it.

Treatment Principle

Disperse wind and heat with shallow reducing needling at Large Intestine and Sanjiao channel points.

Indications

chills and fever at onsetredness and swelling over one or both parotid glandswith severe heat: thirst, constipation and dark yellow urinesticky tongue coat, floating rapid pulse

Method

Superficial needling with the reducing method.

⚠ Cautions

Mumps is infectious and notifiable in many countries; isolate the patient. Refer for severe headache, neck stiffness or vomiting (meningitis), testicular pain (orchitis), abdominal pain (pancreatitis) or hearing loss. LI4 is contraindicated in pregnancy.

About

The book's prescription for mumps, which it explains as seasonal epidemic heat lodging in the Sanjiao and Large Intestine channels with stomach heat rising.

Rationale

TE5 clears heat from the Sanjiao channel, and LI11 with LI4 clear the large intestine channel. TE17 and ST6 lie over the parotid itself and open the channels supplying it, reducing the swelling and pain.

Clinical Notes

The book adds that pricking the apex of the ear to let a few drops of blood, using a three-edged needle, also helps for mumps.

Sources

Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, et al. Essentials of Chinese Acupuncture. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1980. Chapter III, Mumps, p. 383.

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