Fire needle acupuncture

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Fire needle acupuncture also known as fire needling is an acupuncture technique that involves quickly inserting a red hot needle into acupuncture points on the body.{{cite journal |vauthors=Zhang Y, Peng W, Clarke J, Liu Z |title=Acupuncture for uterine fibroids |journal=Cochrane Database Syst Rev |issue=1 |pages=CD007221 |year=2010 |pmid=20091625 |doi=10.1002/14651858.CD007221.pub2 |type=Systematic review|pmc=11270531 }} Deep insertions result in greater pain and other side effects.{{medrs|date=March 2016}}{{cite book|author=Cui-lan Yan|title=The Treatment of External Diseases with Acupuncture and Moxibustion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W0Ety2Hqug8C&pg=PA112|date=January 1997|publisher=Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.|isbn=978-0-936185-80-4|pages=112–}} Fire needling combines conventional acupuncture and cauterization with heated needles.{{cite book |last=Villareal |first=Ruben L. |date=2003 |title=New Frontiers in Research for Sustainable Development: Lecture Series in Honor of UPLB Chancellor Ruben L. Villareal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HRvbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22fire+needling%22 |location=Laguna, Philippines |publisher=University of the Philippines Los Baños |page=128 |isbn=9715471846 |access-date=2016-03-12 }}

The technique has been used since ancient times, when it was called "puncturing with a red-hot needle".{{cite book |author=原一祥 |date=1997 |title=汉英双解中医大辞典 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_eQvAQAAIAAJ&q=%22fire+needling%22 |location=Beijing |publisher=:zh:人民卫生出版社. National Health and Family Planning Commission |page=217 |isbn=7117023066 |access-date=2016-03-12 }}{{cite book |date=1998 |title=Chinese-English dictionary of acupuncture & moxibustion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kCwQAQAAMAAJ&q=%22fire+needling%22 |location=Beijing |publisher=:zh:华夏出版社 |page=40079342 |isbn=7508013778 |access-date=2016-03-12}}