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KMID : 1189420010140020183
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Journal of Korean Oriental Medical Ophthalmology & Otolaryngology & Dermatology
2001 Volume.14 No. 2 p.183 ~ p.193
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Two case studies of Ramsay Hunt syndrome
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Kwon Kang
Park Young-Hwan
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Abstract
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Background: Ramsay Hunt syndrome is a disease that cause faical palsy, ear pain, ear vesicle, tinnitus, hardness of hearing by geniculate ganglion herpes. Ramsay Hunt syndrome could be taken two sides view of herpes zoster and facial palsy. In traditional oriental medicine Ramsay Hunt syndrome could be diagnosed as heat and dryness syndromes.
Object: These studies are clinical observations about two Ramsay Hunt syndrome patient cases that is recovered under the treatment by herbal-acupuncture therapy and moxibustion.
Methods: For treatment in acute state, acupuncture therapy was used and in convalescent stage, herbal acupuncture therapy and moxibustion therapy were used. For diagnosis system, House-Brackmann system, Yanagihara's system used as diagnosis scales.
Result&Conclusion: The results as follows. 1. Generally, to treat Ramsay Hunt syndrome, it is knwon that from invasion of virus to period of first effect a short term bring about good result, but in these two cases, though a long term. considerable effect was braught out. 2. In treating two cases, herbal acupuncture therapys what are called CF, JSD were used. satisfactory results was produced.
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KEYWORD
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Facial palsy , Herpes zoster oticus , Ramsay Hunt syndrome , Herbal-Acupuncture Therapy
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