膏肓穴临床探析

An Analysis of Application of Gaohuang in Clinical Practice

膏肓穴属足太阳膀胱经,被医家称为"增益正气之门",在临床上多采用灸法或针刺法进行治疗。膏肓穴用灸法,侧重于补虚,具有补益虚损、敛肺止咳、补火驱寒、固本防疫、散寒通经等功效。针刺膏肓穴可补虚泻实,调和阴阳。膏肓穴点刺放血,以疏散风热、泻火解暑、熄风止痉、凉血醒神、祛邪外出。通过按揉或是叩拍膏肓穴,引导经气运行,外可放松肩颈背部肌肉的僵硬,内可调整脏腑,治疗慢性支气管炎、急性额窦炎、病毒性心肌炎后遗症等。

Gaohuang(BL 43)belongs to the bladder meridian of foot Taiyang,which is called"the gate of strengthening qi"by doctors.Moxibustion or acupuncture at this point is often used in clinical treatment.Moxibustion at Gaohuang(BL 43)which focuses on tonifying deficiency,has the effects of nourishing deficiency and damage,arresting lung and relieving cough,tonifying fire and expelling cold,consolidating the foundation and preventing epidemic diseases,dispersing cold and unblocking meridians.Acupuncture at Gaohuang(BL 43)can replenish deficiency and purge excess,and regulate yin and yang.Pricking bloodletting at Gaohuang(BL 43)can disperse wind and heat,relieve summer heat by purging fire,extinguish wind and stop spasm,cool blood for resuscitation,and remove pathogenic factors.By pressing and kneading or tapping Gaohuang(BL 43)can guide the movement of meridian qi relax the muscle stiffness of shoulder neck and back,and adjust the internal organs to treat chronic bronchitis,acute frontal sinusitis and viral myocarditis sequelae.