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CC BY 4.0 · Chinese medicine and natural products 2023; 03(02): e56-e62
DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-1762572
Review Article

Qi Field Effect of Acupuncture Time-Acupoints-Space in the Treatment of Long Coronavirus Disease and Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine Adverse Reactions

Miansheng Zhu
1   Paris Institute of Acupuncture Time-Acupoints-Space, Paris, France
2   Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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Abstract

Corona Virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a serious challenge. On the one hand, there is not a single explanation of its pathological mechanism, which directly affects the treatment efficacy. On the other hand, the complicated symptoms of long COVID and COVID-19 vaccine adverse reactions involve multiple systems and the number of affected patients is large, which have attracted great attention. Acupuncture time-acupoints-space (ATAS) is a new acupuncture technique developed on the basis of four methods of day-prescription of acupoints (Na Jia method), hour-prescription of acupoints (Na Zi Method), eightfold methods of the sacred tortoise (Ling Gui Eight Methods), and eight methods of swift puncturing of needles (Fei Teng Eight Methods) in midnight-noon and ebb-flow doctrine (Zi Wu Liu Zhu). The main idea of ATAS is to use the orderly combination of time acupoints and space acupoints to construct a field to regulate qi movement and treat diseases through the qi field effect. In France, although traditional Chinese medicine cannot be directly used to treat COVID-19, hundreds of patients with long COVID and COVID-19 vaccine adverse reactions have been treated using the four methods of ATAS. With reference to the microcirculatory lesions in the pathological mechanism of COVID-19 in Western medicine, hour prescription of acupoints (Na Zi Method) of ATAS showed specific efficacy for long COVID.

CRediT Authorship Contribution Statement

M.Z. was responsible for conceptualization, investigation, methodology, validation, writing, and writing-review and editing.




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Eingereicht: 10. Juli 2022

Angenommen: 22. September 2022

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06. März 2023

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