Abstract:
Objective To analyze the development and evolution of Bian-stone treatment in ancient and modern times by sorting out the items, indications, usage and taboos in ancient literature, as well as the clinical application, operation techniques, operation time and treatment frequency in modern literature.
Methods The ancient literature is mainly based on the Chinese Classic Ancient Books Library and Ancient and Modern Medical Case Cloud Platform, combined with the Chinese Classics, Chinese Medical Book Reservation and other databases, and the original content of ancient books were consulted if necessary. Modern literature is based on databases such as CNKI, Wanfang Data, and VIP. The literiture retrieval timeis from the establishment of the database to October 2022. The literature information was extracted and input into the Excel table for collation and analysis.
Results A total of 120 ancient records related to Bian-stone were collected, involving 68 bibliographies and 184 modern documents. In the ancient literature, there were 82 records related to the indications of Bian-stone therapy, involving 30 kinds of diseases and syndromes. The indications of Bian-stone therapy were mainly surgical diseases, with a total frequency of 62 times (73.81%). Among them, most were ulcerative diseases, with a frequency of 55 times (65.48%), and the dominant disease was erysipelas of 15 times (17.86%). A total of 184 clinical studies were included in the modern literature, involving 71 diseases and syndromes. The main indications were internal medicine and orthopedics. The frequency of internal medicine diseases was 87 times (47.28%), and the frequency of orthopedics diseases was 58 times (31.52%). The dominant diseases included insomnia of 13 times (7.07%), periarthritis of 12 times (6.52%), constipation of 10 times (5.43%), cervical spondylosis of 10 times (5.43%), facial paralysis of 9 times (4.89%), low back pain of 8 times (4.35%). The results showed that 99 times (60.00%) of scraping method, 74 times (44.85%) of pointing method and 63 times (38.18%) of warm ironing method were used frequently. The point-scraping method had the highest support, and the key operation methods included 7 kinds of methods such as scraping method and pointing method. The operation time was 20-30 min, and the frequency of treatment was once a day.
Conclusions Modern Bian-stone technique has a wide range of clinical applications and various operating techniques. It is simple and inexpensive, and is worthy of in-depth excavation and application promotion.
Key words:
Stone needle,
Stone needling,
Data mining,
Review literature as topic
Ruqi Zhang, Bingxu Zhu, Ziyue Lin, Xiaojie Dong, Li Zhang. Literature research on ancient and modern clinical application of Bian-stone technique[J]. Chinese Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion(Electronic Edition), 2024, 13(01): 30-35.