The common causes of neuralgia are viral infection, tumor compression, idiopathic neuralgia, etc. If the first two kinds of acupuncture do not work, you need to treat the primary disease first, and if it is idiopathic neuralgia, you can consider acupuncture.
1. Treatment of primary disease: If the neuralgia is caused by tumor, virus and other factors, simple acupuncture treatment is useless, and there is a possibility of delaying the disease, at this time to actively treat the primary disease.
2. Idiopathic neuralgia: this kind of neuralgia can not find a clear cause, this time can be under the guidance of the physician oral medication carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine and so on. Add acupuncture treatment, if necessary, you can also use surgical decompression therapy.
Neuralgia acupuncture should go to a regular hospital, so as not to cause nerve damage and infectious diseases because of acupuncture.