Professor Chen Yiguo 's Experience In Treating Intractable Facial Paralysis By Acupuncture And Medicine

Facial paralysis is a clinical common and frequently-occurring disease, about80%of the patients can be recovered in1-2weeks or months, but part of the patients after long treatment still have no curative effect, so such parts Known as refractory prosopoplegia clinically. The traditional Chinese medicine thinks that the etiology and pathogenesis of refractory prosopoplegia has three theories, Internal cause pathogenic said, Exogenous pathogenic said, and both inside and outside for pathogenic said, but give priority to the theory with "Lack of vital qi in the body and pathogens invade at outside, inside and outside pathogens cause the occurrence of diseases". Most thinks that the disease location in the meridians and aponeurotic channels of Foot-Yangming, Foot-Taiyang and Hand-Taiyang. For refractory prosopoplegia, due to its treatment is very long, meridians have long blocked, qi-blood stagnation for a long time, the face loss in qi moisten and with pathological product of the accumulation of phlegm and blood stasis, thus forming the intractable ills of deficiency in origin and enrichment in symptom, and It is more difficult on treatment.Professor Chen committed to acupuncture clinical, teaching, scientific research more than30years, Frequently learns from the old adage, for refractory prosopoplegia formed mainly fine through thorn needle medicine and unique method of treatment. Acupuncture, especially fine thorn can communicate more via blood gas, leaving all the bullishness of circulation perfusion with each other, so as to promote facial muscle function recovery. And on the basis of the led are scattered medicines are can fundamentally dialectical treatment, tone up vital qi, removing pathogens and pathological products, supporting to enlarge. Cinnamon tincture external treatment in huangdi neijing "method of liquor and guangxi", and the patient’s synergies and acupuncture. Acupuncture combined with medicine and suitable in the treatment of refractory prosopoplegia, achieve better clinical curative effect.