Observation Of Curative Effect On Abdominal Acupuncture For Pseudobulbar Palsy Patients After Cerebral Infarction

Objective To investigate curative effect on abdominal acupuncture for pseudobulbar palsy patients after cerebral infarction.Methods Sixty-two pseudobulbar palsy patients with cerebral infaction were randomly divided into two groups: Treatment group and control group. With two deletions, there were still thirty cases in both groups involved in the analysis of results. The prescription for treatment group was: Zhongwan(Ren 12), Xiawan(Ren 10),Qihai (Ren 6), Guanyuan (Ren 4), Huaroumen(ST 24), Jianli (Ren 11)of both sides, Shangqu(KI 17) of normal side. The prescription for control group was: Lianquan (Ren 23), Neiguan (P 6), Renzhong (DU 26), Tongli(HT5); Fengchi (GB20), Wangu (GB12), Yifeng(SJ17)of both sides. All patients got basic treatment including oxygen inhalation, anti-hypertension, anti-diabetics, anti-infection, water and electrolyte disorders control, dehydration, intracranial pressure reduction, and so on. Patients were evaluated by Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment and Harada Drinking Water Test before treatment, immediately after treatment, and one month after treatment.Results1. Immediately after treatment, Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment and Harada Drinking Water Test classifications of two groups were both greatly improved(P<0. 05). The therapeutic effect kept up to one month after treatment (P<0. 05), but there wasn' t any synergism without treatment (P>0. 05).2. There was no significant difference on Dysarthria Assessment and Harada Drinking Water Test classifications of two groups immediately after treatment and one month after treatment (P>0. 05). It could be assumed that two treatments had similar effect to improve Dysarthria Assessment and Harada Drinking Water Test classifications. 3. Among the sixty pseudobulbar palsy patients with cerebral infaction in this research, the percentage of patients with several lesions was over 70%. Therefore, the conclusion was similar with traditional theory that cites of lesions focused on corona radiata,basal ganglia,brain bridge and centrum semiovale. The conclusion was similar with Mr Liu Xingren' s research that lesion(s) from a single side of cerebral hemisphere could also cause pseudobulbar palsy. The percentage of patients with single lesion was 26. 7%. The most commonly seen single lesions were as follows: brain bridge with 5 people, post limb of internal capsule with 2 people.Conclusions The curative effect on abdominal acupuncture for pseudobulbar palsy patients after cerebral infarction was similar to that of traditional acupuncture. Both abdominal acupuncture and traditional acupuncture greatly relieved the patients' symptoms. However, abdominal acupuncture seldom caused pain while tradition acupuncture might do, so patients might refuse tradition acupuncture but not abdominal acupuncture. Therefore, abdominal acupuncture is an important method to treat pseudobulbar palsy after cerebral infaction. As a new theory and therapy, abdominal acupuncture is of profound significance for pseudobulbar palsy treatment, and it is worth further studying and extending.