Scalp Acupuncture and Clinical Cases
Dr. Jiao Shunfa, born in Jishan County, Shanxi Province in 1936, received medical education in Shanxi Medical College. Later, he served in succession as deputy director of Jishan County Hospital, deputy director and director of the Yuncheng Prefectural Hospital, director of Public Health Bureau of Yuncheng Prefecture, director of Scalp Acupuncture Institute of Yuncheng Prefecture, vice-chairman of the Acupuncture and Moxibustion Society of Shanxi Province, and president of International Medical College of Brain and Scalp Acupuncture in Kirghizstan. Devoting to the study of acupuncture and meridian theory while practising medicine, he invented scalp acupuncture in 1971 and developed the method of intra-arterial drip of drugs into the carotid artery to treat cerebrovascular diseases together with Du Quanzhi in 1976. He authored Investigation of the Essentials of Acupuncture and Intra-arterial Drip of Drugs into Carotid Artery for Treatment of Cerebrovascular Diseases.