What reason is ache after acupuncture?

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Many patients who come to the acupuncture and moxibustion department will ask whether acupuncture and moxibustion is painful or not. This kind of disease will undoubtedly affect their normal work and study. For fear of pain, some patients who are especially suitable for acupuncture treatment will give up acupuncture, thus missing the best treatment time. For some patients with stroke sequelae, their families will think that the more painful the acupuncture is, the better, indicating that the patient's nerves are still more sensitive, and the pain of acupuncture is getting stronger and stronger, which is also a sign of taking effect. Let me share with you the pain after acupuncture.

What reason is ache after acupuncture?

First: usually, after acupuncture into the acupoints of the human body, it will produce the feeling of acid, numbness, distension and heaviness. Sometimes it is a feeling that is difficult to describe. Some patients will feel comfortable, which can be said to be a kind of comfortable pain, but some patients will mistake the uncomfortable feeling of numbness and distension for pain. This kind of uncomfortable pain exists in "acupoints" and "meridians". The part is not in the epidermis, and it is usually deep. From a professional point of view, these feelings indicate "Deqi", which is the response of correct acupuncture points and effective manipulation. If these feelings are very weak, acupuncturists sometimes adjust the feeling of "Deqi" through "twirling", "lifting and thrusting" and other manipulation techniques according to different conditions and different constitutions, so as to enhance the therapeutic effect of acupuncture.

Second: acupuncture into the skin moment, often have a short "mosquito bite" like pain. If a doctor is skilled in manipulation, he will have little or no pain. Of course, it has something to do with the patient's mood. The more relaxed he is, the less obvious he feels.

Third: but if there is a pricking pain in the skin surface, it is caused by acupuncture to the pores or capillaries. This feeling starts from the acupuncture into the skin until the needle is pulled out of the skin. In view of this situation, sometimes doctors will choose to re acupuncture.

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Therefore, acupuncture treatment, generally painless, even if there is a slight mosquito bite like instant pain. The acid, numbness, distension and heavy sensation produced by local or meridian can be felt in most cases, which is also an effective response of acupuncture. As for the effect of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment, it is not simply evaluated by pain or no pain.