We came to the conculsion after considering all of information from many kinds of books on the cause, pathogenesis and treatment of Flaccidity-syndrome.
The results were as follows
1. Flaccidity-syndrome means limb-relaxation due to muscle atony that isn´t able to constraction. It`s begun as mild degree from extremities, in some cases ended to quadriplegia or expire.
2. Cause factor and pathogenesis of Flaccidity-syndrome is various. After Lung fluid consuptic;n caused by heat-evil was refered in The Yellow Emperor´s Canon of Internal Medicine. They were refered as cause- factor that Main channel asthenia, excess of sexual intercourse, wetness-evil, heat-evil gets into the interior, asthenia of the spleen and stomach.
Since Ming Dynasty, It´s classified to wetness-heat evil, wetness-phlegm, deficiency of vital energy, deficiency of blood, deficiency of yin, blood stasis and indygestion, etc.
3. In the view of treatment of Flaccidity-syndrome, Yangming was selected in The Yellow Emperor´s Canon of Internal Medicine, and it´s been mean to clear away wetness-heat evil located at Yangming. In the method of acupuncture it was same on the base, and many skills have been used that electronic acupuncture, point-injection theraphy, acupuncture point block, catgut implantaion at acupuncture point, cutaneous acupuncture, auriculo-acupuncture and head acupuncture by the through post generation.
4. Flaccidity-syndrome was defined to weak, disuse and non-pain. Beacause it was non-pain, so medicine to expel wind-evil was prevented to use. But through post generation Flaccidity-syndrome has been treated that is able to cause pain or numness as arthralgia-syndrome. Therefore there is tendency that medicine to expel wind-evil is capable within pathological basement of Flaccidity-syndrome in recent.
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