Acupuncture plus cupping treatment of 32 cases of herpes zoster.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Acupuncture plus cupping treatment of 32 cases of herpes zoster [Keywords:] herpes zoster; EA; around thorn; Cupping Herpes zoster, Chinese medicine called “snake strand sore,” “spider sore”, “wrapped around the waist fire Dan,” that fire more depressed as the liver or spleen damp and hot and complex feeling, when the evil poisoning caused by damp, even cited without anger, Yun steam heat, bathed skin, context, stagnant blood and hair as herpes. curative effect of acupuncture treatment of this disease, especially in comprehensive treatment more prominent [1] .2008 March in October -2009 , the author uses electro-acupuncture plus cupping treatment of the disease to obtain a more satisfactory outcome, are reported below. 1 Clinical data The group of 32 patients from the hospital out-patient, are in line with 1994, issued by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine lt;lt;TCM Syndrome Diagnostic efficacy of the standardgt;gt; [2] snake strand sore diagnosis. Including 18 males and 14 females ; age of 18 to 79 years, mean 47 years; course of 2 ~ 12 d, an average of 7.5 d. In the head and facial lesions in 3 cases, in the neck, chest, back, upper limb in 13 cases, waist, abdomen in 11 cases, hip, leg in 5 patients. which by Western medicine, Chinese medicine does not scab lesions after treatment, the pain was still drama in 5 cases. 2 treatment 2.1 Acupuncture The local surrounding needling, and back-shu points meridian acupoints, supplemented through Jiaji. Liver Yu fire plus Yanglingquan, Taichong, between the lines, Xia Xi; spleen Yin Ling Quan plus hot and humid, in chambers; herpes above the waist with the upper points (Qu pool, within the customs, Hegu, etc.); those with lower limb below the waist point (sea of #8203;#8203;blood, the full three years, Hong Leong, Taichong, etc.); herpes who indulge in the side of the point to take the affected side ; according to the site of herpes chest and abdomen, t