Classification | Shallow needling | Deep needling |
Position of evil Qi | Superficial body | Deep body |
Seasons | Spring and summer | Autumn and winter |
Body built of patients | Thin | Fat |
Qi and blood running | Fast and smoothly | Slowly and unsmoothly |
Pulse manifestation | Slow and weak | Rapid and strong |
Nature of diseases | Yang syndrome | Yin syndrome |
Pain and itch | Itch | Pain |
Heat or cold of illness | Heat syndrome | Cold syndrome |
Excess and deficiency of patients | Deficiency syndrome | Excess syndrome |
Reinforcing and reducing manipulations | Reinforcing method | Reducing method |