|
Acupuncture-Herbal Medicine Epilepsy Treatment WHAT IS EPILEPSY?Epilepsy is a disease, which defined as paroxysmal and temporary disturbance of brain characterized by loss of consciousness or muscle tic or abnormal sensation, emotion and behavior. In Acupuncture word, this disease is categorized as 'xian zheng'(epilepsy syndrome) and 'dian xian'(epilepsy). CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS
1. Histories of the family, epileptic attack and encephalopathia.
2. Clinical manifestations are varying greatly. There may be grand mal, rolandic mal, infantile spasms and petit mal. Grand mal is characterized by suddenly loss of consciousness, involuntary of muscular contraction with foam in the mouth, which last for 1 to 5 minutes. The patients may then fall into sleep and awake after a few hours. The petit mal is sudden, short loss of awareness without aurea and muscle tic, come with interruptions of speech or action, which persist for 2 to 10 seconds. The patients often normally come to consciousness quickly.
TYPES OF SYNDROMES1. Epilepsy Induced by FearMain symptoms are sudden panic, confusion and loss of self-control, frighten and may be alarm and restlessness, crying with fear during sleep, tendency to remain in the mother's arms, alternative flush and pallow on the face, red tongue with white fur, taut and rapid slippery pulse. 2. Epilepsy due to Accumulation of Phlegm Main symptoms are convulsion of extremities during a fit od epilepsy, unconsciousness, headache and abdominol pain, come with stridor produced by phlegm in the throat, salivation, yellow face, thick fur of tongue, and slippery and rapid pulse. 3. Epilepsy due to Blood Stasis Main symptoms are with a history of birth injury or trauma which characterized as paroxysmal localized headache, occasional vomiting, paroxysmal convulsion of the whole body or half body or local region upon attack, dark purple tongue, thready and un smooth pulses and dark purple superficial venule of the index finger.
TREATMENTSUsually it takes between 1 to 6 months by Chinese Master's theory of acupuncture and herbal medicine. WHAT IS ACUTE TOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHYAcute toxic encephalopathy is caused by the abrupt appearance of symptoms and signs of the central nervous system in the course of primary diseases. The reason of the disease is unknown. The disease may be associated with immunoreactions to infection and its toxin invading the brain tissue directly. In Acupuncture, this is called 'jing feng'(infantile convulsion).
CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS
1. It may occur at any age, but usually in infants from 1 to 3 years old. The
brain damage always follows by the primary disorders within a few days or 1 to 2
weeks after their attack.
2. The diagnosis is usually abrupt with high fever, headache, vomiting, restlessness, convulsion, coma, delayed reaction to light, always come with holotonia, decerebrate rigidity. Some of the patients may have the symptoms of meningeal irritation, increased or reduced of tendon reflex and have cerebellar symptoms, such as ataxia and kinetic tremor. 3. The lab exam shows that cerebrospinal fluid is clear. All are normal only the pressure is high and sometimes there is a slight increase of protein. 4. By fundus exam, Arteriolar spasm, blood stasis of small vein and retinal edema can be observed. TYPES OF SYNDROMES1. Always seen in the stage of cerebral edema of toxic encephalopathy, in the case of the primary disease, with abrupt high fever, headache, vomiting, restlessness, delirium, drowsiness, convulsions of the limbs, involuntary staring, lockjaw or unconsciousness, deep-red tongue with yellow and dry fur, stiffness of the extremities and neck, either taut and rapid or slippery and rapid pulse. TREATMENTSUsually it takes between 1 to 6 months by Chinese Master's theory of medication Ask more about herbal medicine via Email
|
Acupuncture- Treatment In The World
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||