Professor Zhou Hongfei 's Experience In Treating Acne By Acupuncture And Moxibustion

Acne is a common clinical department of dermatology disease, and often attacks in adolescence. There is a tendency to self healing. With the development of society, and the change of people’s living environment, the incidence of adult acne also increased gradually, and it has a long course of disease, easily relapses, and is difficult to cure.These characteristic has a great impact on patients’ appearance and self-confidence,and reduces the quality of their life. Western clinical medicine usually gets application of antibiotics, lasers and other means of treatment of acne, well because of its strong resistance, adverse reactions,patients are not easy to accept it. The traditional Chinese medicine has the records of acne as early as "Huang Di Nei Jing". The traditional treatment is still widely used via the evolution of each generation of physicians. My teacher,Professor Zhou Hongfei engaged in acupuncture clinical work for more than 20 years. According to the law of acne pathogenesis, syndrome differentiation, he sort out a synthesize treatment of acupuncture,including surrounding acupuncture,pricking and cupping, ordinary acupuncture.There has a quite remarkable clinical effect especially on the chronic and stubborn acne patients.