Epilepsy, commonly known as sheep epilepsy and sow’s wind, is a chronic brain disorder caused by a variety of etiologies, with intermittent central nervous system dysfunction caused by repeated and sudden over-discharge of nerve cells in the brain. Epilepsy can be divided into two types: primary and secondary; primary epilepsy has no known cause, no obvious pathological or metabolic changes in the brain, and various changes in the internal and external environment within the physiological range can induce the onset; secondary epilepsy is caused by various diseases in the brain, such as encephalitis, meningitis, cerebral parasitosis, brain tumor, traumatic brain injury, cerebral hypoxia, and lead and mercury poisoning can lead to the occurrence of epilepsy. Certain types of epilepsy are hereditary. The prevalence of epilepsy among relatives of patients with primary epilepsy is 4-7.2 times higher than the prevalence of epilepsy in the general population, and secondary epilepsy is 2-3.6 times higher. Among them, 20-30% of patients become refractory to epilepsy through the ineffectiveness of regular antiepileptic drug treatment. According to epidemiological statistics, the incidence of epilepsy is 0.5-1%, and it is estimated that there are currently about 10 million or more patients in China, and the rate of growth is 270,000/year. The disease often develops in childhood and adolescence and causes great suffering to patients and their families due to the long course of the disease. The two main types of treatment currently used are medication and surgical treatment. The causes of epilepsy are caused by a variety of lesions in the brain, which are related to neurological abnormalities in the brain and are divided into two categories. The first category is primary epilepsy. These patients have no structural brain abnormalities, but have abnormal changes in brain function, mostly related to genetics, and no abnormalities on imaging such as CT and MRI. The second type of epilepsy is secondary epilepsy, which is an acquired condition that causes structural changes in the brain resulting in seizures. For example, common encephalitis, meningitis, brain tumor, cerebrovascular disease, cerebral hemorrhage, neonatal hemorrhagic brain injury and cerebral cortical dysplasia. In addition, there is another category of cryptogenic epilepsy, where there is a presumed neurological disorder, but no clinical cause can be found at present. These patients are accompanied by neurological dysfunction such as intelligence or motor, and are called cryptogenic epilepsy. Clinical symptoms of epilepsy Epilepsy is a chronic syndrome of brain dysfunction caused by multiple etiologies and is especially prevalent among children. The symptoms of epilepsy are sudden stopping of movement, fainting, loss of consciousness, distortion of the mouth and eyes, straightening of the eyes, twitching of the limbs, or sensory, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions caused by neuronal discharge in the brain. The treatment of epilepsy A. Drug therapy Regularly take phenytoin sodium, carbamazepine, sodium valproate, Toltea, Trilogy and other anti-epileptic drug therapy according to the doctor’s prescription, patients can basically control clinical symptoms and reduce the number of seizures after systematic regular drug therapy. However, some patients or family members in China believe in charlatan doctors, superstitious prescriptions (especially some so-called pure Chinese medicine), buried lines, false advertising and other indigenous methods of treatment without scientific basis, resulting in patients with clinical seizure symptoms difficult to control or ineffective, or even further deterioration, which not only delayed the disease, but also suffered huge economic losses. This is not only delayed, but also a huge financial loss. The first thing you should do is to take a look at the results of the surgery. The starting area of abnormal brain nerve cell discharge is the epileptogenic foci that cause seizures. If the epileptogenic foci that cause seizures are surgically removed, the seizures can be eradicated and controlled. If the epileptic foci are surgically removed, the seizures can be eradicated and controlled. The current status of epilepsy surgery: the effectiveness of surgery depends on the accuracy of the localization of the epileptogenic foci and the size of the range of the foci that can be removed by surgery. In China, we mainly use long-range EEG and multi-conductor video EEG (some people call it “epileptic knife”, but this is not a scientific term. where the epileptogenic focus is located in the brain region. Currently, temporal lobe epilepsy (with medial temporal lobe syndrome) has the best efficacy, with seizure control or remission rates of 85% to 90% after surgery; other lobar epilepsy has the next best efficacy; for example, frontal lobe epilepsy, occipital lobe epilepsy, etc.