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root-severing therapy; needle-picking therapy. A method of treating disease that involves picking subcutaneous fibers with a needle. Picking therapy is a widely used folk remedy that came to be practiced by Chinese medical health-care workers after the so-called liberation. It is performed at specific sites including acupuncture points and is mostly used to treat hemorrhoids, but is also used for prolapse of the rectum, clove sores dīng chuāng, welling-abscesses yōng and flat-abscesses jū acute conjunctivitis (wind-fire eye), sties, profuse menstruation, and chronic prostatitis. BL-25 (Large Intestine Transport, 大肠俞 dà cháng shù) and BL-32 (Second Bone-Hole, 次髎 cì liáo) are used for hemorrhoids, and GV-14 (Great Hammer, 大椎 dà zhuī) for conjunctivitis. Sites other than acupuncture points are those of papules on relevant parts of the body, for example, the shoulder blade for sties, and the lumbar and sacral region as well as the frenulum of the upper lip for hemorrhoids.

Method: At the selected site, a three-edged needle or large sewing needle is inserted to a depth of 2–3 mm a lifted so as to draw out and sever white fiber from under the skin. The site is then dressed. Treatment may be repeated at the same point 2–3 weeks later. Attention must be paid to hygiene to avoid infection.

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