Type 1: Blockage of the Meridians:
Symptoms:
Sudden attack of paroxysmal and radiating pain intolerable like eletricity shocking, as if being teared to shreds, pricked or scorched. Short time for each attack, relieving spontaneously after several seconds or several minutes. May attack continuously in several hours or days. The period of remission varies from several days to several years.
Principle of treatment:
Dredging the Meridianss of Yangming, Taiyang, Shaoyang. Puncture with reducing method. For cold syndrome moxibustion may be applied.
Prescription:
For pain of forehead: Cuanzhu (BL2) (Cuanzhu (BL2)), Yangbai (GB14) (Yangbai (GB14)), Touwei (ST8) ( Touwei (ST8)), Shuaigu (GB8) (Shuaigu (GB8)), Houxi (SI3) Shu-Stream Point, The Eight Confluent Point (Houxi (SI3) Shu-Stream Point, The Eight Confluent Point) are added. For pain of upper jaw: Sibai (ST2) (Sibai (ST2)), Quanliao (SI18) (Quanliao (SI18)), Shangguan (GB3) (Shangguan (GB3)), Yingxiang (LI20) (Yingxiang (LI20)), Hegu (LI4) Yuan-Source Point (Hegu (LI4) Yuan-Source Point) are added. For painof lower jaw:Chengjiang (RN24), Jiache (ST6) (Jiache (ST6)), Xiaguan (ST7) (Xiaguan (ST7)), Yifeng (TE17) (SJ17), Neiting (ST44) Ying-Spring Point (Neiting (ST44) Ying-Spring Point) are added.
Modification according to symptoms:
Select the first five points in the above prescription for pain of forehead, the middle 5 points for pain of upper jaw, and the last 5 points for pain of lower jaw, or select Ashi points, or press some points at the head and face, and puncture and mxibust the points where the patient feels ease.
Cautions and precautions:
Some patients suffered the severe pain on the face, they slept and ate a little, were nervous, thin and with symptoms of weakness, such as hyperhidrosis and shortness of breath. The quite and long retaining reinforcing method must be applied to "strengthen the body resistence and eliminate pathogenic factors". Geat attention should be paid to the diagnosis and treatment on primary diseases of the palients with infiltration of inflamation or tumour pressure.
Key Words: pain in face, acupuncture
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