Acupuncture and Chinese medicine treatment of 56 cases of facial paralysis.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 5 Acupuncture and Chinese medicine treatment of 56 cases of facial paralysis [Abstract] Objective: To investigate the treatment of acupuncture and Chinese herbs the clinical efficacy of facial paralysis. Methods: Acupuncture combined with Chinese medicine treatment of 56 cases of peripheral facial paralysis. Results: 56 patients recovered in 49 cases, 87.5%, improved in 6 cases , 10.7% healed in 1 case, 1.8%. The total effective rate was 98.2%. Conclusion: After differentiation acupoints, facial paralysis treated with acupuncture and Chinese herbs have achieved good effect. [Keywords:] Facial Paralysis: Acupuncture, Chinese medicine Facial paralysis, also known as peripheral facial paralysis. Chinese medicine, the disease is stroke, “oblique eye and mouth ?Z” category to Kouyanwaixie, bad language, mouth drooling for the performance. We use acupuncture and Chinese medicine treatment of 56 cases, results were satisfactory, are reported below. 1 Clinical data 1.1 General Information 56 patients were outpatients, 21 males and 35 female, aged 58 years maximum, minimum 8 years, 26 cases of facial paralysis on the left and right facial paralysis in 32 cases. 1.2 The diagnostic criteria for sudden onset, side of face numbness, loose skew to the healthy side, can not frown, incomplete eyelid closure can not be closed or, tears, after eating the food stuck in between teeth and cheek, mouth, drink plenty of water outflow from the affected side of mouth , the amount of grain lost, nasolabial fold flat askew, some patients with ear and neck pain, crooked mouth when speaking, particularly when you laugh. 1.3 Treatment 1.3.1 Chinese medicine treatment Scorpion 3g, white tuber 10g, silkworm 10g, cold-type plus Angelica 6g, Rhizoma 6g, wind 10g, wind-heat type plus mint 9g, even the shell 12g, recovery Astragalus 15g, earthworm 6g , safflower 6g, orange contact 12g. Shuijianbi. 1.3.2 acupuncture acupoints: Yifeng, a chain is, Heg