Professor SHAO Jing-ming’s clinical experience of fire needling for bone-joint tuberculosis

tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis

ganglion cyst and thyrophyma is summarized.Professor SHAO used fire needling to treat bone-joint tuberculosis.The acupoints included ashi points and nearby acupoints

particularly local opposite acupoints（Neixiyan [EX-LE 4] and Dubi [ST 35]

Yinlingquan [SP 9] and Yanglingquan [GB 34]

Xuehai [SP 10] and Liangqiu [ST 34]）

and for the patients with severe yin-cold syndrome

Yanghe decoction was additionally used.For tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis

fire needling was used at different stages.In the early stage

the nucleus was punctured with fire needling;in the middle stage

the pustule was punctured with fire needling combined with cupping;in the late stage

the fire needling was inserted into the fistula or sinus tract

and the surrounding granulation tissue was treated with horizontal penetrating needling.For ganglion cyst

fire needling combined with centro-square needling was applied.For thyrophyma

the surrounding needling with filiform was used;for simple thyroid mass and thyroid nodule

the surrounding needling with fire needling was used.