WANG Zijing,YANG Chao,HONG Bing,et al.A Brief Overview of Acupuncture in Regulating the Spirit for Treating Head and Facial Orifice Disorders[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2025,66(03):317-320.
WANG Zijing,YANG Chao,HONG Bing,et al.A Brief Overview of Acupuncture in Regulating the Spirit for Treating Head and Facial Orifice Disorders[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2025,66(03):317-320.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2025.03.018.
A Brief Overview of Acupuncture in Regulating the Spirit for Treating Head and Facial Orifice Disorders
It is believed that the head and facial orifices are connected with the brain's spirit and the spirits of the five organs. Their functions, including vision, hearing, smell, taste, and speech, are manifestations of the activity of the spirit. Furthermore, head and facial orifice disorders are interrelated with spirit disorders, forming a cause-and-effect relationship. Acupuncture has a regulatory effect on the spirit. Based on this, acupuncture for regulating the spirit in treating head and facial orifice disorders is proposed. This includes regulating the brain's spirit to treat functional disorders, regulating the heart's spirit to clarify the functions of governing substances, regulating the organ's spirit to benefit the orifices and enh
ance the communication of the spirit, and regulating the liver's spirit to promote the flow of
Qi
(气) and relieve stagnation, thereby providing a framework for acupuncture to treat head and facial orifice disorders.