Introduction to Prof. HUANG Xian-ming＇s Needling Techniques

In his over seventy-year practice of Chinese medicine, Prof. HUANG Xian-ming inherited plentiful academic experience from his father, Mr. HUANG Hong-fang and has a thorough understanding of the needling techniques described in Nei Jing （ Inner Canon ） and has developed his own school in the clinical treatment. Prof. HUANG believes that the manipulating skills of the needling techniques are the key to the therapeutic effects, and the needling techniques include the tonifying, reducing, warming, clarifying, ascending, descending, diminishing and opening skills. Among them, the tonifying technique is able to support the anti-pathogenic ability and get rid of deficiency, often used for diseases and patterns induced by insufficiency of qi and blood and low immunity. The reducing technique is used to reduce excessive symptoms and dissipate the pathogens, often used for pathogenic patterns of hyperactive pathogenic heat, qi stagnation and blood stasis, and muscular spasm and swelling.

Introduction to Prof. HUANG Xian-ming’s needling techniques

Prof.HUANG Xian-ming(1920-),a famous acupuncturist at home and abroad,was appointed as the director of Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian,director of WHO Shanghai International Acupuncture Training Center,chairman of shanghai Association of Acupuncture-moxibustion, vice president of China Association of Acupuncture and Moixbustion.