Case report: Treating Guillain-Barré syndrome with acupuncture-moxibustion and traditional Chinese Medicine patent prescription (Jingui Shenqi Pill)

作     者：Yingying Zang Yongji Qin Yi Li Zhaoyang Wang 

作者机构：TCM Center of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine-St.PetersburgRussia School of Acupuncture and MassageBeijing University of Chinese MedicineBeijingChina Third Hospital of Shanxi Medical CollegeShanxiChina Tongzhou Maternal&Child Health Hospital of BeijingBeijingChina 

出 版 物：《Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences》 (中医科学杂志（英文）)

年 卷 期：2018年第5卷第3期

页      面：310-320页

学科分类：1006[医学-中西医结合] 1005[医学-中医学] 10[医学] 

基　　金：the support of TCM Center of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine-St.Petersburg (Санкт-ЦетербурГский центр ЦекинскоГо университета тардиционной китайской медицнны и фармакололГии) 

主　　题：Guillain-Barré syndrome Acupuncture Moxibustion Scalp acupuncture Jingui Shenqi Pill 

摘      要：Background:Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute demyelinating polyneuritis in which the immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous *** two-thirds of GBS patients have a history of acute infection before developing *** and supportive therapies are widely used to treat GBS;however,one in three patients experiences neurologic *** China,acupuncture-moxibustion has shown unique benefits for the treatment of neurological diseases and has a wide range of applications in *** presentation:We treated an elderly Russian female patient diagnosed with *** chief complaints were upper limb weakness,lower limb paralysis,and inability to *** traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis was flaccidity syndrome (Wei Zheng).After 5 weeks of acupuncture and moxibustion combined with Chinese patent medicine treatment,the patient s limb muscle strength was significantly improved and her ability to self-care was largely ***:The present findings demonstrated that acupuncture and moxibustion combined with Chinese patent medicine can alleviate muscle weakness caused by ***,clinical randomized controlled trials are warranted to verify the precise clinical efficacy.