The development of Chen's flying needle based on the traditional Chinese Medicine: A needle-inserting technique created by a distinguished veteran doctor of TCM

摘要

Nowadays acupuncture is considered as a widely-used and complementary therapy for many diseases, which also has a long history in the development of traditional Chinese medicine. However, it still troubles us for the needling-infection, pain-sensation and inflexibly-operating. Chen's flying needle treatment has solved the problem above-mentioned for he has created a brand-new technology of acupuncture inserting-operation with the concept of ‘simple-ness, convenience, cheapness and effectiveness’. The inventor of the new technique is professor Chen-quanxin who has been engaged in acupuncture for fifty-six years and well respected as a distinguished veteran doctor of TCM in China. A research focusing on the clinical experience and academic ideological of professor Chen-quanxin has been established and carried out since 2007, which was supported by the Eleventh Five-year Project of State Ministry of Science and Technology(No. 2007BAI10B01-066). In this paper, we present a introduction for the development of Chen's flying needle based on traditional Chinese medicine. The objective is to arrange the operating standardization of Chen's flying needle and attempt to make it conducive to promote the use in hospitals all over the country.