Acupuncture can also be used in the acute phase of facial palsy

  Facial palsy is a common disease in winter and spring, divided into two types: peripheral and central, with peripheral facial palsy common.  The clinical manifestations include shallowing or disappearance of the frontal lines on the sick side, inability to frown, raise eyebrows and frown, enlargement of the eye fissure, inability to close the eyes or incomplete closure, photophobia, lacrimation and positive Bey’s sign, shallowing of the nasolabial folds, low hanging corners of the mouth, crooked corners of the mouth toward the healthy side, air leakage from the sick side when puffing, water leakage from the sick side when gargling, drooling, food staying between the teeth and cheeks on the sick side when eating, sometimes accompanied by hypoesthesia or loss of taste in the front 2/3 of the tongue on the sick side and auditory Sometimes it is accompanied by a loss of taste in the anterior 2/3 of the tongue and hearing allergy or hearing loss.  The onset of the disease is usually rapid, and it is often found in the early morning when washing or talking with others, and can develop at any age. Acupuncture is effective in treating this disease, but modern medicine believes that this disease cannot be treated with acupuncture within a week, which brings misconceptions to the general medical practitioners and causes such patients to fail to visit our department (Acupuncture Department) in time.  In fact, during the acute stage of facial palsy, infrared or ultrashort wave treatment can be given first, followed by distal acupuncture to stimulate the meridians and blood to reach the disease, and then with local shallow acupuncture without leaving needles, which can unblock the meridians and blood, improve local circulation, reduce inflammatory swelling, relieve nerve pressure and prevent muscle atrophy, creating good conditions for the recovery of facial palsy.  After the recovery period, we can carry out the regular acupuncture therapy and connect with electro-acupuncture, and generally the patient can be clinically cured after about 10-15 times.