[Experience of professor Sun Liuhe in treating facial peripheral paralysis].
Professor Sun Liuhe is engaged in medical service for over 40 years. He is deeply involved in research on intractable and complicated diseases. Especially, in treating facial paralysis, he makes diagnosis and treatment based on overall analysis of symptoms and causes, differentiation of syndrome for etiology. Without confining himself to ancient treatment methods, by applying both acupuncture and Chinese medicine, selecting auxiliary acupoints according to differentiation of meridians related to illness, as well as considering anatomy. Professor Sun holds ancient and modern therapeutic methods, brings forth ideas of using new acupoints to prevent perversion based on pulse tracings, and uses cutting therapy for the cases suffering from facial paralysis for a long time. This method can shorten treatment courses, to a great extent, and achieve good therapeutic effects on intractable facial paralysis, which has revealed distinctness of acupuncture therapy.
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Mei
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Overseas Education College of Henan TCM College, Zheng-zhou 450008. lumei0712@163.com
Zhang
Huan-huan
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Zhang
Hui-fang
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D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome