Question
What are the acupuncture treatment methods for children with fever?
Answer
Acupuncture can indeed treat fever in children, with common techniques including clearing the Heaven’s Water, clearing the Large Intestine, clearing the Lung, and clearing and reinforcing the Spleen Earth. However, it is not recommended for parents to perform pediatric acupuncture at home, as delayed treatment of a child’s fever may lead to pneumonia. When dealing with a child’s fever, it is advisable to first take oral antipyretic medication and consider a combined treatment approach of traditional Chinese and Western medicine.