Can acupuncture cure impotence?

In life, there are many men who have lost confidence in life because of impotence. They feel ashamed in front of their lovers. In fact, impotence is still curable. During the treatment period, the patient not only needs to cooperate with the doctor, but also needs to have a positive attitude, so that the disease can be cured quickly. So can acupuncture treat impotence?

Impotence refers to the inability of a man's penis to erect or to have an erection that is not strong or lasts only for a short time during sexual intercourse, and the inability to complete normal sexual intercourse, or the inability of the penis to enter the vagina for sexual intercourse. Impotence is also known as "impotence" and is the most common male sexual dysfunction. If you fail to have sexual intercourse once or twice, you cannot assume that you have impotence. Impotence can only be diagnosed when the failure rate of sexual intercourse exceeds 25%.

The key points for diagnosing impotence are as follows:

(1) Married men’s penis cannot erect or is weak, which makes them unable to have sex. This is the main clinical manifestation of this disease.

(2) Impotence can be divided into primary and secondary types, and can be divided into organic and functional types. Primary impotence means that the penis has never been able to enter the vagina for sexual intercourse, while secondary impotence means that sexual intercourse has been possible but then problems occur.

Organic impotence is characterized by the inability of the penis to move at any time, neither erection during sexual excitement (such as in sleep and when the bladder is full) nor spontaneous erection; functional impotence has spontaneous erection, but fails to achieve clinical erection.

(3) The disease is mostly caused by psychological factors.

Therefore, patients are in varying degrees of mental states such as tension, fear, depression, anxiety and distress.

(4) Some patients with this disease lack normal sexual knowledge, so it is necessary to ask patients about their sexual life and other issues to find out the cause of the disease.

(5) To rule out functional impotence, other physical signs should be combined to trace the primary disease. If it is secondary to diabetes, blood and urine sugar tests should be performed.

1. Sex hormones: Suitable for impotence caused by hypogonadism, testosterone propionate, 25 mg, intramuscular injection, once every other day, for 2 weeks; gonadotropin 500-1000 units, intramuscular injection, 1-2 times a week, for 4 weeks. (Hypothalamic and pituitary diseases)

2. Psychological: mainly psychological counseling and sex education, supplemented by medication.

3. Sexual dysfunction: gonadotropin and thyroid hormone treatment.

4. Hyperprolactinemia: dopamine enhancer (bromocriptine);

5. Inject 30 mg of castanea into the corpus cavernosum of the penis. Use a 1 ml syringe and a skin test needle to inject 30 mg of castanea into the corpus cavernosum of the penis. Use a 1 ml syringe and a skin test needle to vertically pierce the corpus cavernosum of the penis from the front side of the base of the penis. Inject the drug solution into the corpus cavernosum, press the base of the penis for 1 minute, and gently massage the penis for 3 to 5 minutes. The penis will then become erect.

6. Vitamin E, 100 mg, 3 times a day, and oryzanol 20 mg, 3 times a day.

7. Endocrine surgery: Hypothalamic pituitary tumors, feminizing tumors, cortisol, and hyperthyroidism can be treated with surgery.

8. Penile prosthesis.