Sublingual bloodletting therapy treating cardio-cerebrovascular diseases combined with acupuncture

Yang Zhong-run.

Sublingual bloodletting therapy is a new therapeutic method developing from tongue diagnosis and combing with TCM and western medicine theories. It punctures patients’ essential sublingual acupoints and wipes off waste as blood stasis and toxin. Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine said：“the heart governs blood and vessels and has its special orifice in the tongue.” Tongue has close relationship with heart and brain. TCM considers that tongue examination could distinguish diseases, discerning excessive and deficiency of five viscera and identifying depth of evils. Western medicine considers that there are nerves, body fluid, arteries and veins, abundant lymph system, placket of glandular duct, glands excretion location and gas passage under the tongue. Brain, communicating viscera and internal and external excretion glands restrict and depend on each other. Tongue can not regulate everything, but it can process actions as mixed motor nerves under the domination of cerebral cortex. So it punctures patients’ essential sublingual acupoints and wipes off waste as blood stasis and toxin, at the same time, It can promote blood circulation and remove stasis, active cells and promote cardio-cerebrovascular blood circulation which will prevent cardio-cerebrovascular diseases. Basing on clinical observation of sublingual bloodletting therapy, the author uses it to regulate disharmony excretion organs through opening obstructed glandular duct. Physical stimulation of acupuncture inspires the essential qi of body and organs, regulates the balance among each part, actives cells, promote metabolism and organs’ motion. It has good preventing and treating functions to cardio-cerebrovascular diseases, such as cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis, embolism, cerebrovascular atherosclerosis, hemiphegia after stroke, coronary heart disease, hypertension, hypotension and liver diseases, which belong to dysfunction of blood circulation. It’s a kind of folk nature treatment methods with characters, of easy management, no operation, no drugs, riskless, noninvasive, painless and no adverse effect.