Wang Yongzhou, Yang Lu, Wu Yongzheng
International Cheek Acupuncture Therapy Institute, Fontenay-sous-Bois, France.
Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing United Family Hospital, Beijing, China.
Front Neurosci. 2023 Jul 20;17:1211361. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1211361. eCollection 2023.
Peripheral nerve compression or permanent damage of central nervous system (CNS) can trigger severe neuralgia to patients. Analgesic medicine or even surgery to remove nerve compression is commonly used for pain relief. But these treatments either are ineffective, have side-effect or can cause subsequent complications. Acupuncture, a technique that has been widely used in China and other Asian countries for thousands of years, is an alternative to relieve pain, although the mechanism of action is not fully understood. In this study, two patients who had symptoms of severe neuralgia associated with peripheral nerve compression or permanent damage/dysfunction of CNS and analgesic medicines are ineffective, underwent cheek acupuncture, a new technique established recent years by the author with the features of painless, standardization, simplicity, and precision. An immediate analgesic effect of the cheek acupuncture was observed without any side effects, and clinical remission was achieved after several sessions of treatments. It suggests that this new approach is an efficient alternative for pain relief induced by nerve impairment. The authors proposed a biological holographic model of triplet homunculi existing at the level of the local cheek, spinal cord, and cerebral cortex, to explain the immediate and accurate analgesic effect of the cheek acupuncture. These homunculi have the same structure, and synchronized sensations and actions that are mediated by afferent and efferent neurons, as the integrated human body. Therefore, the nociception and needling signals are sensed, transmitted, analyzed, and manipulated cooperatively and simultaneously among these homunculi with the subsequent pain relief in the body.
周围神经受压或中枢神经系统（CNS）的永久性损伤会给患者引发严重的神经痛。通常使用镇痛药甚至手术来解除神经压迫以缓解疼痛。但这些治疗方法要么无效，要么有副作用，要么会引发后续并发症。针灸是一种在中国和其他亚洲国家已被广泛使用数千年的技术，尽管其作用机制尚未完全明了，但它是缓解疼痛的一种替代方法。在本研究中，两名患有与周围神经受压或中枢神经系统永久性损伤/功能障碍相关的严重神经痛症状且镇痛药无效的患者，接受了颊针治疗，颊针是作者近年来创立的一项新技术，具有无痛、标准化、简便和精准的特点。观察到颊针具有即时镇痛效果且无任何副作用，经过几次治疗后实现了临床缓解。这表明这种新方法是缓解神经损伤所致疼痛的一种有效替代方法。作者提出了一种三联体小人的生物全息模型，该模型存在于局部面颊、脊髓和大脑皮层水平，以解释颊针即时且精准的镇痛效果。这些小人与完整人体具有相同的结构，以及由传入和传出神经元介导的同步感觉和动作。因此，伤害性感受和针刺信号在这些小人之间协同且同时地被感知、传递、分析和处理，随后身体疼痛得以缓解。
