Progress in treatment of facial neuritis by acupuncture combined with medicine from the perspective of modern medicine: A review.

Autor: Cao Q; Shiyan People's Hospital of Baoan District, Shenzhen, China., Qi B, Zhai L
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Medicine [Medicine (Baltimore)] 2023 Dec 22; Vol. 102 (51), pp. e36751.
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000036751
Abstrakt: Facial neuritis is a common clinical disease with high incidence, also known as Bell palsy or idiopathic facial nerve paralysis, which is an acute onset of peripheral facial neuropathy. In modern medicine, there have been obstacles to the effective treatment of facial neuritis. At present, the clinical use of Western medicine treatment is also a summary of clinical experience, the reason is that the cause of facial neuritis is unknown. Facial neuritis belongs to the category of "facial paralysis" in traditional Chinese medicine. For thousands of years, Chinese medicine has accumulated a lot of relevant treatment experience in the process of diagnosis and treatment. At the same time, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and the combination of acupuncture and medicine play an important role in the treatment of facial neuritis. This article discusses the treatment of facial neuritis with acupuncture combined with Chinese medicine, based on the research progress of modern medicine. In this review, we provide an overview of the effectiveness of acupuncture and medication combinations and facial neuritis with current studies investigating acupuncture and medication combinations in the treatment of facial neuritis.
Competing Interests: The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
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Databáze: MEDLINE