title: [Professor GAO Yuchun's experience on "sequential acupuncture leads to smooth movement of qi"].
abstract: Professor GAO Yuchun is considered as the key successor of GAO's academic school of acupuncture and moxibustion in Yanzhao region. Professor GAO's clinical experience of, "sequential acupuncture" is introduced in details in this article. In Professor GAO's opinions, appropriate acupuncture sequence is the key to satisfactory clinical effects during treatment. Based on different acupoints, sequential acupuncture can achieve the aim of qi following needles and needles leading qi; based on different symptoms, sequential acupuncture can regulate qi movement; based on different body positions, sequential acupuncture can harmonize qi-blood and reinforcing deficiency and reducing excess. In all, according to the differences of disease condition and constitution, based on the accurate acupoint selection and appropriate manipulation, it is essential to capture the nature of diseases and make the order of acupuncture, which can achieve the aim of regulating qi movement and reinforcing deficiency and reducing excess.
authors.forename: Yanjun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xing
authors.forename: Linhua
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cui
mesh_terms: D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods; D002681:China; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009339:Needles; D019413:Qi / Q000266:history