Abstract
Most of the neurological diseases could benefit from acupuncture. This chapter will focus on some commonly seen neurological diseases, namely epilepsy, headache and pain associated with neurological disorders.
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder consisting of recurrent seizures resulting from excessive, uncontrolled electrical activity in the brain. Many patients remain totally unresponsive to conventional interventions and/or suffer from intolerance side effects. Headache is one of the most common disorders encountered in medicine, and still remains under-recognized and under-treated everywhere. Pain associated with neurological disorders is seen in neurological conditions where there has been a lesion or disease of pathways that normally transmit information about painful stimuli either in the peripheral or in the central nervous system, also called neuropathic pain. Only a small proportion of patients experience a good response to treatment for neuropathic pain.
Acupuncture has been widely used for the treatment of epileptic seizure, headache, and neuropathic pain. Brain acupuncture theory and techniques are uniquely beneficial for the above-mentioned neurological diseases. Scalp acupuncture and Dao-qi techniques on Du Mai (Governor Vessel) points are the two recommended therapies for these neurological diseases, especially when they are severe or less responsive to general acupuncture.
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Wang, T. (2021). Epilepsy, Headache and Pain Associated with Neurological Disorders. In: Acupuncture for Brain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54666-3_14
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