Application of "Treating Diseases that Aggravate or Mitigate at a Specific Time with Shu Acupoints" in Time-Related Diseases
CHEN Sansan
GUO Fang
WU Bin
LIU Ran
WANG Jun
Abstract："Treating diseases that aggravate or mitigate at a specific time with shu acupoints" is from the chapter A Day Divided into Four Periods Based on Yang Qi of The Spiritual Pivot, and it is one of the treating principles for time-related diseases in acupuncture and moxibustion. In this study, 28 cases reported in 6 papers in the past 25 years have been comprehensively evaluated from the aspects of occurrence rules, symptoms characteristics, acupoints selection, manipulation features, treating time, needle retention time, efficacy and prognosis, to summarize the application rule of this principle and to guide clinical practice in time-related diseases.
Keywords：diseases that aggravate or mitigate at a specific timeshu acupointstime-related diseasesthe ebb and flow of midnight and midday
Publication Date：2018-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 445-447 )