[Professor SHAO Ming-xi 's experience in differentiation and treatment of arthralgia in breast cancer with acupuncture, moxibustion and tuina ].

Professor SHAO Ming-xi 's experience in treatment of arthralgia in breast cancer is summarized. Professor SHAO believes that the dysfunction of liver, spleen and kidney is the primary and the invasion of the exogenous wind, cold and damp is the secondary in arthralgia in breast cancer. Emphasized on syndrome/pattern differentiation, this disorder is identified as 4 patterns, i.e. liver qi stagnation, blockage by phlegm and stasis, qi and blood deficiency and obstruction by wind, cold and damp. Acupuncture-moxibustion is applied to Hegu (LI 4), Taichong (LR 3) and Waiguan (TE 5). The supplementary acupoints are selected on the base of syndrome/pattern differentiation. Tuina is combined with acupuncture-moxibustion and the reinforcing and reducing techniques are used appropriately. Shaoyang meridian is specially considered, due to which, Waiguan (TE 5) and Zhongzhu (TE 3) of triple energizer meridian of hand- shaoyang and Yanglingquan (GB 34) and Zulinqi (GB 41) of gallbladder meridian of foot- shaoyang are combined. Additionally, it stresses the combination of the local and distal acupoints and the coordination of various therapies of TCM to achieve the better effect.