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KMID : 1123920070210010328
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Korean Journal of Oriental Physiology and Pathology
2007 Volume.21 No. 1 p.328 ~ p.332
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Case of ’Dianxian’ Patient Induced by Eum Deficiency of Liver & Kidney Who was Considered as Complex Partial Seizure Treated by Acupuncture
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Cho Chang-Hyun
Cho Yoon-Soong
Yoon Ji-Won
Lee Sang-Kwan
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Abstract
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Epilepsy is any of various neurological disorders characterized by sudden, recurring attacks of motor, sensory, or psychic malfunction with or without loss of consciousness or convulsive seizures. It could be divided into subcategories due to the international classification of epileptic seizure and the complex partial seizure, that is one of epileptic seizure subcategories, is characterized by elaborate and multiple sensory, motor, and/or psychic components accompanying the clouding of consciousness, prodrome, automatism, postictal confusion. This study reports a patient who was presumptive diagnosed as complex partial seizure by having the clouding of consciousness, prodrome, postictal confusion. We also diagnosed him as a ‘dianxian’ patient induced by sum deficiency of liver & kidney. This patient was treated by acupuncture to tonifying eum of liver & kidney and it achieved markedly improved symptoms.
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KEYWORD
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Epilepsy, Acupuncture, Complex Partial Seizure
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