LI Guiping. SHI Xuemin’s Experience of Regulating Mentality and Bladder Needling Method in Treating Urinary Dysfunction[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2017, 58(24): 2088-2090.
LI Guiping. SHI Xuemin’s Experience of Regulating Mentality and Bladder Needling Method in Treating Urinary Dysfunction[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2017, 58(24): 2088-2090.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2017.24.005.
Urinary dysfunction is complex syndromes caused by various factors
and it belongs to the categories of"strangury"
"uroschesis"and"enuresis"in Chinese medicine. Traditionally
it is treated from kidney and bladder.Professor SHI Xuemin not only pays attention to the function of "kidney governing water and controlling excretionretention"
but emphasizes the function of kidney governing bones and generating marrow
while the spinal cord upcommunicating with the brain which is the fu-viscera of mental activity. Prof. SHI holds that filled brain maintains normal mind functions. Brain-mentality disorder leads to bladder disorder of excretion-retention and urinary dysfunction. Prof. SHI proposes that the new pathogenesis of urinary dysfunction is"brain-mentality disorder and bladder incontinence". The disease location is brain
kidney and bladder. Prof. SHI establishes "regulating mentality and bladder"needling method and based on this
he standardizes the measurement of manual operation
which provides new insight and new method for acupuncture treating urinary dysfunction.