Professor Zhou Hongfei 's Experience In Treating Peripheral Facial Paralysis By Acupuncture And Moxibustion

Peripheral facial paralysis also known as Bell’s palsy or facial neuritis, caused by nonspecific inflammation of the facial nerve canal of facial nerve in peripheral facial paralysis, its pathogenesis is not clear, modern physicians that the chill and virus infection(such as herpes zoster, herpes simplex, popular measles, mumps, rubella, cytomegalovirus, etc.) and autonomic nerve functional instability are closely related. General symptoms of Kouyanwaixie, on one side of the face forehead wrinkles disappear, the air leakage of the speech, suffering from side bosomy cheek and whistle leaking gas, food detention in the disease of the lateral cheek teeth, can not lift the volume, frowning, eyelid closure weakness or closed. It is a common and frequently occurring disease. The incidence of male and female is similar to that of any age. The vast majority of them are unilateral and bilateral.In modern therapy, most of the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture treatment is the mainstream, with drugs and physical therapy in order to achieve the purpose of curing the disease. Now doctors working in acupuncture and moxibustion treatment research, the research direction and the research results are not the same, weeks teacher in years of clinical practice of acupuncture from multi angle of acupuncture treatment of peripheral facial paralysis proposed some views.Firstly from the angle of the Physique Theory of Chinese medicine to study acupuncture take points, found that different susceptibility to different constitution of external evil invasion of the body, in facial paralysis patients exist difference, in treatment of points can also be corresponding physical acupoints, mainly from the Wang Qi gives flat and quality, Qi deficiency, Yin deficiency, qi stagnation constitution, Yang deficiency constitution, phlegm dampness constitution, damp heat constitution, blood stasis, special intrinsic quality of the basic types of acupuncture, acupoint selection method research and discovery of the prescriptions of acupuncture and moxibustion added correct the physique of the acupoints after facial paralysis recovery is beneficial. Moreover, from the point of acupuncture and moxibustion methods to do some research on the treatment of disease, in addition to the single point of access to the treatment of acupuncture points, and the use of the method of puncture in the treatment of our clinical treatment also played a useful role. Miss Zhou also through years of practice summed up the gill left needling to specialized for treatment of peripheral facial paralysis, in clinical made remarkable results. In the late onset of symptoms alone, there are more in-depth study of the treatment of symptoms. Weeks the teacher from the Neijing, the proposed three because the idea of contingency time found, in the treatment of peripheral facial paralysis can also be the acupuncture of "time" for in-depth study in order to obtain a better curative effect, reduce the pain of patients with the disease. Here, the "time" has multiple meanings, in-depth study of the "time" is defined according to the patients of acupuncture and moxibustion tolerance time, acupuncture treatment of shift and patients requiring "interval" of acupuncture has a better effect to develop the most appropriate in patients with acupuncture treatment programs.