Experience by LI Ziping in Treating Knee Osteoarthritis with Five Needles Above and Below Knee
DUAN Yingyu
LI Nanzhen
WANG Xiaoyan
ZHANG Tao
LI Ziping
Abstract：Professor LI Ziping holds that the cause of knee osteoarthritis is"combination of internal and external evils",that is,liver,kidney and spleen are in disorder as the internal cause and dampness is the external cause.On the treatment,five bodies should be identified,and then five needles above and below knee should be applied to treat the tendons and bones,in combination with medicines.The combination of acupuncture and medicine could effectively relieve knee osteoarthragia and functional limitations.Based on the location acupoints could be divided into upper and lower points,with different indications.Five needles above knee are used to treat bi-syndrome in sinews and muscles with muscle pain and weakness,functional limitations of squatting and standing up,and diseased muscles in biceps femoris,quadriceps femoris and semitendinosus.The main acupoints are:Heding(EX-LE 2),Neixiyan(EX-LE 4),Waixiyan(EX-LE 5),Liangqiu(ST 34)and Xuehai(SP 10).Five needles below knee are used for treating bi-syndrome in the bone,arthralgia,walking pain,joints deformity with audible bone rubbing sound or with osteoporosis.The main acupoints are:Heding(EX-LE 2),Neixiyan(EX-LE 4),Waixiyan(EX-LE 5),Yinlingquan(SP 9)and Yanglingquan(GB 34).
Keywords：osteoarthritis of the kneefive needles above and below kneecombination of internal and external evilscombination of acupuncture and medicineLI Ziping
Publication Date：2023-12-05
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 1333-1337 )