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Pediatrics

Children’s excess type of constipation is generally causes by accumulated heat in intestine-stomach and the irregular transmission due to excessively eating spicy and greasy food, we puncture Tianshu (ST25) Front-Mu Point of the Large Intestine which is Large Intestinal Mu Point and Dachangshu (BL25) which is Back Shu Point, accompanying with Shangjuxu (ST37) The Lower He-Sea Point of the Large Intestine to activate Fu Qi, Zhigou (TE6) to disperse and activate qi function, Fu Qi can be regulated due to smooth San Jiao Qi, transmission function becomes normal after Fu Qi is activated. Accompanying Quchi (LI11) He-Sea Point and Hegu (LI4) Yuan-Source Point to disperse intestinal heat, Chengshan (BL57) is experiential point which have the function of adjusting stomach-intestine; Fenglong (ST40) Luo-Connecting Point is Luo Point of Yang Ming meridian, which has function of  pushing spleen-stomach Qi; Shuidao (ST28) (left), Guilai (ST29) (right) are local experiential points which can benefit stools via promoting intestinal peristalsis. Once per day, 5 days are one course, 2 days break between every two courses.

Treatment result: total effective rate is 85.7%

Key words: acupuncture, children’s excess type, constipation

Writer: Yanmin Zhao, Ying Zhang
Baoding city No.1 TCM hospital, Hebei province 071000

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