title: Acupuncture: a potential modality for the treatment of auricular pruritus in Ramsay Hunt Syndrome with multiple cranial nerve lesions.
abstract: Auricular pruritus coexisted with multiple cranial nerve lesions in Ramsay Hunt syndrome has been rarely reported in the literature especially its treatment. However, auricular pruritus cannot be better improved along with the improvement of multiple cranial nerve lesions. We tried to solve the problem with acupuncture and got experience from it. The following 2 cases of Ramsay Hunt syndrome show a potential modality for the treatment of auricular pruritus with acupuncture.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
authors.forename: Lan Ying
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: He Sheng
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jian Hua
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D020831:Acupuncture, Ear / Q000379:methods*; D000328:Adult; D004431:Ear, External / Q000821:virology*; D004433:Earache / Q000821:virology; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000821:virology; D005260:Female; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000821:virology; D016697:Herpes Zoster Oticus / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D006987:Hypesthesia / Q000821:virology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010612:Pharyngitis / Q000821:virology