Scalp Acupuncture in Traditional Chinese Medicine

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"When apply acupuncture needles on certain points or lines of the scalp, it is called scalp acupuncture, which originated from 1970s in china. At the present, scalp acupuncture can be used to treat more than 80 kinds of common disorders. Those main lines or zones for stimulation on the scalp are near or correspond to functional locations of cerebrum cortex. Therefore corresponding names are assigned after then, such as motor area, sensory area, and visual area and so on. This has been demonstrated that the main indications of scalp acupuncture are disorders of the central nervous system psychosis, pains, and other neurgenic viscera dysfunctions. Where applying scalp acupuncture a sufficient amount of stimulation are often required which can be realized a fast paced twisting of the needles at a greater degree or combined with needle lifting thrusting method. It also can be neuralized so that a longer needle retaining period such as one to three hours. "