Center for Traditional Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital

Announcement and Precautions of Chinese Medicine Consultation for inpatient care                                                                                    Edited at 2023.02.17

Precautions

1. Chinese herbal medicine：

1. Taking concentrated Chinese herbal medicine extract with warm water.
2. Double-boiling Chinese herbal medicine decoction before having it.

2. Acupuncture：

Before treatment：

1. Please wear loose and comfortable clothing for acupuncture treatment.
2. Hungry, overeaten, drunk, exhausted, terrified or excessive stress should not accept acupuncture treatment.
3. Relaxation of your whole body before treatment can enhance the efficacy of acupuncture therapy
4. Avoid acupuncture with skin infections, ulcers, sores, spontaneous hemorrhage or clotting problems.
5. Please inform your physicians if it’s your first time being punctured or you used to faint during acupuncture treatment.
6. Please notify your physicians if you have implanted pacemaker or other electronic equipment.

During treatment：

1. Keep joyful mood during treatment, don’t move your body or change positions randomly in order to avoid acupuncture needles falling down and dangerous situations.
2. Supposing feel uncomfortable symptoms during acupuncture, such as dizziness, nausea, cold sweating, palpitation, short breathing, or dyspnea, please tell our doctors and nurses as soon as possible.
3. Mild sour sensation, numbness, swelling, and pain are normal phenomenon.
4. Stroke, inconvenient, and other critically ill patients should accompany with family members or care-givers so as to prevent emergency incidences.

After treatment：

1. To avoid bleeding, do not rub pinhole after acupuncture.
2. Mild subcutaneous hemorrhage or bruises are normal conditions, bruises will be absorbed few days later.
3. In some situations, patients may aware of temporary exacerbating symptoms, do not over concerning, it will relieve 2-3 days later.

3. Cupping