Symptoms and treatment of facial paralysis in traditional Chinese medicine: long term treatment or advantages?

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Facial paralysis, as the name suggests, is a disease named after the main symptom of mouth and eye deviation. This disease has no age, season, or even male and female restrictions, and has few symptoms in the anterior region, so it is difficult to prevent and the onset is urgent. Moreover, the prevalence rate of urban people under pressure is getting higher and higher, which has a huge impact on the life and work of patients, and the treatment of Western medicine always feels that the heart is powerful but the strength is insufficient.

Symptoms and treatment of facial paralysis in traditional Chinese medicine: long term treatment or advantages?

First: long term contact with patients with facial paralysis, I feel that traditional Chinese medicine has great advantages in the treatment of some facial paralysis. Now let's understand what is facial paralysis. Peripheral facial paralysis needs timely treatment. If it can't be recovered after 3 months, there will be sequelae and it's difficult to recover.

Second: in fact, facial paralysis is one of the best diseases to be diagnosed. According to the main symptoms and medical history, it can be basically diagnosed. The main reason for the patients is that their mouth is crooked and their eyes can't be closed, that is, "mouth and eye are crooked". Usually on one side. When the patients wake up, they often find that the muscles on one side of the face are sluggish, numb and paralyzed, the forehead smell disappears, the eyes are fissioned, the tears are large, the nasolabial groove becomes shallow, the pain behind the ear is abnormal, and the taste is abnormal. Sometimes, they will be accompanied by some symptoms, such as wind cold and wind heat cold.

Third, traditional Chinese medicine believes that overwork, lack of healthy qi, invasion of six evils and other factors are the causes of facial paralysis. Because the Shaoyang and Yangming meridians are in the facial area, they are also the location of the meridians where the disease occurs. Understanding this has certain guiding significance for acupuncture treatment.

matters needing attention

The recovery of peripheral facial paralysis is related to the degree of facial nerve injury. Electromyography is a common means to check the degree of injury. Aseptic inflammation has a good effect on facial paralysis, while viral infection has a relatively poor effect.