Postherpetic neuralgia treated with acupuncture combined with Chinese medicine.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 5 Postherpetic neuralgia treated with acupuncture combined with Chinese medicine [Abstract] Objective To observe acupuncture combined with the efficacy of treatment of herpes zoster neuralgia. Methods The treatment group was the method of combining acupuncture treatment, the control group only treated with traditional Chinese medicine differentiation. Results of treatment group and control group pain fast rate, cure rate, efficiency significantly. Conclusion acupuncture combined with the pain of postherpetic neuralgia treatment effect is obvious. [Keywords:] postherpetic neuralgia Shingles is a viral skin disease, by the varicella - zoster virus infection, because of the virus involved and the incidence of root ganglion. Chinese medicine called “wrapped around the waist fire Dan,” “snake Dan.” sudden onset of the disease, peripheral nerve distribution area along the side of the set of clusters of blisters appear, arranged in ribbon, accompanied by neuralgia and nearby lymph nodes. In addition to the clinical appearance of skin redness, blisters, its a major pain-based disease Features and more as the first symptom, pain in the skin after healing of herpes is still several weeks, to months, saying “postherpetic neuralgia” [1]. I used since 2003, the method of Chinese medicine and acupuncture treatment of herpes zoster nerve pain achieved good results. The report is as follows. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 General information on the treatment group (30 cases, 21 cases of Hepatobiliary wet, wet spleen Sheng-type in 9 cases, 18 males and 12 females, aged 23 to 71 years, mean 38 years. The control group (30 cases, 23 cases of liver and gallbladder damp, Spleen wet Sheng in 7 patients, 16 males and 14 females, aged from 20 to 68 years, mean 37.6 years old. lesional distribution of parts: the head and face were two groups of 4 cases and 5 cases, 7 cases and Sternocostal District 8 cases, the waist is 19 cases and 17 cases,