[Clinical and experimental studies on the treatment of severe facioplegia with compressing drug, acupuncture and infrared rays].

Abstract

In 160 patients with severe facioplegia detected by the strength-duration curve, partial or complete reaction of degeneration of the facial nerve and its related muscles occurred in 158 patients and no reaction of degeneration in 2 patients. All the patients were arbitrarily divided into 2 groups. One group of 62 patients was treated with the regimen 1: Mianmasan adding acupuncture and the other of 98 patients with the regimen 2: modified Mianmasan adding acupuncture and red lighting. The treatment concretely was an application method by dusting the Mianmasan, over the scarified skin corresponding to the selected acupoints and motor points, and finally stick a piece of adhesive plaster on them. The clinical experiment was carried out by using double contrast method, i.e., autogenous and allogenic contrasts with ear pulse wave and skin temperature records. It was confirmed that the affected side of the face had chronic tissue ischemia and returned to normal after treatment. The results showed that among 160 treated patients, 70(43.8%) were cured, 46 (28.7%) markedly improved, 43 (26.9%) improved and 1 (0.6%) remained ineffective. By the statistical analysis, it was demonstrated that the curative effect of regimen 2 was superior to that of regimen 1 (P less than 0.01), and the effective rate in the patients with partial reaction of degeneration was higher than that in those with complete reactcon of degeneration (P less than 0.05).