A study of ZHANG Tang-fa's acupuncture academic ideology and clinical treat-ment experience
The induction and collation of study notes,medical records and works of ZHANG Tang-fa,a famous veteran doctor of traditional Chinese medicine,enabled his academic ideology on acupuncture to be summarised as follows:dredging with acupuncture at precise and appropriate acupoints,with attention paid to acupuncture at Jiaji and Fenglong points;the original creation of acupuncture by twirling,with an emphasis on the treatment of vitality and keeping the needle sensation in the whole process of acupuncture treatment;diagnosis and treatment of diseases from the aspects of disease differentiation,syndrome differentiation,meridian differentiation,and stage differentiation,of which the specific operation methods of clinical syndrome differentiation and treatment by stages were expounded by taking facial paralysis as an example;the ingenious use of scalp acupuncture,with excellent skills in treating complex and miscellaneous diseases related to the nervous system and attaching importance to the three methods of acupuncture,moxibustion and medication,bringing forth the new through the old and absorbing the quintessence.