What are the traditional Chinese medicine treatments for trigeminal neuralgia?

Acupuncture treatment of trigeminal neuralgia in traditional Chinese medicine is mainly manual, and drugs or electroacupuncture are not used in the treatment process.

Treatment: expelling wind and dredging collaterals.

Prescription: Hegu, Taichong, Zheng Qian, Buche, Underground Warehouse, Fengchi, Shimonoseki, Xiang Ying, Slurry Bearing or Buccal Slurry. Choose three or four points at a time.

Addition and subtraction: If the eyelids can't be closed and the eyes shed tears, add bamboo, fish loin and silk bamboo.

For those with pain behind the ear, add wind. For those with decreased taste, Jialian Spring. Manipulation: Xie Ping.

Operation: Purging acupuncture points Hegu, Taichong and Fengchi, Shimonoseki, Zheng Zheng and Xiang Ying with flat needles, using the method of flat reinforcing and purging, piercing the waist of fish with yang white, the bottom flat to the cheek car, and the cheek car obliquely to the bottom, pulling the needles to make facial muscles twitch backwards, and keeping the needles for 20 minutes. Other acupoints were treated by reinforcing and reducing method.

Acupuncture therapy has a certain curative effect on trigeminal neuralgia, especially for acute attack, which is characterized by quick effect.

Acupuncture therapy includes electroacupuncture, auricular acupuncture, water acupuncture, scalp acupuncture, foot acupuncture and deep acupuncture. From the perspective of modern medical anatomy, the position of acupuncture is consistent with the branch of trigeminal nerve in Dachuan. After acupuncture, trigeminal neuralgia may be relieved or even disappeared due to the harmony of nervous system.