Is self acupuncture dangerous?

summary

If you don't learn and master certain acupuncture techniques, it's better not to prick them by yourself. Because we don't know much about the acupoints and organs of the human body, and we don't know enough about the strength, it's easy to puncture the blood vessels, and in serious cases, it's easy to become pneumothorax. Acupuncture and moxibustion is mainly about the angle, depth and manipulation of acupuncture. There are many things to pay attention to, such as where to tie and where not to tie. In short, for the sake of safety, it is better not to do acupuncture by yourself.

Is self acupuncture dangerous?

If the acupuncture points are not accurate, it is dangerous. If some high-risk points of the body are wrongly punctured, it is easy to cause physical harm, such as Dazhui, Fengchi, Jingming, Zhongji, which can stab the spinal cord, or damage local organs, or even cause paralysis and other adverse consequences. If a needle is inserted into the heart, it will die within a day, because the heart's true Qi is damaged, and the Qi is lost; If the needle is punctured to the kidney by mistake and Yin Qi is damaged, the patient will die within 6 days; He stabbed his lung, coughed due to gas damage, and died within 3 days.

Stabbed to the liver and died within 5 days; If you hit the spleen, you will die within 10 days; Stab the gall, one and a half days will die; Stab the big veins on the tarsus of the foot, the blood flow will not only die; Puncturing the veins on the face will lead to blindness; Stabbed in the head, once hit the brain will immediately die; Stab the great vein of the Yin thigh, the blood flow will not only die immediately; Stab the arm Taiyin pulse, bleeding too much can also cause death.

After the silver needle is inserted into the acupoints of the human body, the capillaries may be broken. Therefore, if the silver needle is not fully disinfected by high temperature and high pressure when it is repeatedly used, it is easy for patients to spread blood, hepatitis B and other diseases to each other. Due to improper acupuncture, heart, lung, liver and other visceral injuries occur.

matters needing attention

In the process of acupuncture and moxibustion, some parts are not allowed to be needled, such as some important organs, some parts where big blood vessels flow through and important joint parts. For pregnant women, Hegu, Sanyinjiao, kupen, abdominal and lumbosacral acupoints are all prohibited. Children should be forbidden to needle fontanelle, women should be forbidden to needle stone door.