Why acupuncture can treat facial paralysis?

Modern medicine has affirmed the treatment of facial paralysis by acupuncture. Clinical research reports that Bell's facial paralysis patients did not improve significantly in the acute phase of10 for 20 days. If acupuncture is used, 85% of the patients are cured and 90% of the patients are obviously improved. It is not ideal for sequela patients, but it is also effective. It is generally believed that the mechanism of acupuncture in treating facial paralysis is to excite nerves, dilate blood vessels, promote blood circulation, diminish inflammation and relieve pain. Acupuncture therapy has been included in one of the treatment schemes of facial neuritis by multi-edition neurology. Traditional Chinese medicine's understanding of acupuncture treatment of facial paralysis can be clarified from etiology and meridian research. Facial paralysis in TCM generally refers to facial paralysis caused by facial neuritis, which was caused by common cold. Acupuncture can dispel wind and cold and dredge collaterals, so acupuncture can treat facial paralysis. For central facial paralysis (such as cerebrovascular disease) caused by liver-yang transforming into wind and phlegm blocking collaterals, acupuncture also has the functions of calming liver-yang, calming wind, resolving phlegm and dredging collaterals, and also has a good therapeutic effect.

Acupuncture treatment of facial paralysis often takes Yangming Meridian, Shaoyang Meridian and Jueyin Meridian as the main acupoints, which are three meridians that run along the face, especially Yangming Meridian of the hand and foot and Jueyin Liver Meridian run along the inside and outside of the mouth and lips respectively, and Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian runs along the face to the forehead. According to the meridian theory, acupuncture can mediate the local meridian qi and blood of the face, and can also regulate the meridian qi and blood, so that it can be balanced and nourished by the meridian muscles, and facial paralysis can recover itself. Acupuncture can directly affect the etiology and location of facial paralysis, and it is an effective means to treat facial paralysis.