Ancient Literature Research On Treatment Of Epilepsy With Acupuncture And Moxibustion

Objective: Retrieve the literature about acupuncture treatment of epilepsy in ancient medical books, analyze the regulation of prescription and acupoint selection in treating epilepsy systematically and summarize the high-frequency acupoints, which can provide the basis of acupoint selection and theoretical support for clinical research and treatment.Methods: Retrieve the Encyclopaedia of Chinese Traditional Medicine in computer and select the related literature in the part of acupuncture, massage and moxibustion. Establish the database after completing the standardization of data processing and make a statistical analysis with Microsoft Excel.Results: The amount of related prescriptions is 501 and there are 406 prescriptions which are composed of one single acupoint. There are 296 prescriptions from which we can figure out the treatment method and moxibustion is the only method in 176 of them. When it comes to 108 acupoints, 99 of them are in the Fourteen Meridians and 76 of them are specific acupoints. There are 30 acupoints in the head and face, 10 acupoints in the thorax and abdomen, 11 acupoints in the back and 57 acupoints in the limbs.Conclusion: In ancient time, most doctors just used one single acupoint to treat epilepsy and the use of moxibustion is much more than acupuncture. The acupoints in the Du Meridian, the Bladder Meridian of Foot-Taiyang, the Ren Meridian and the Heart Meridian of Hand-Shaoyin are used mostly. Most acupoints are located in the head and limbs. Among the specific acupoints, doctors paid more attentions to the Five-Shu point, the Eight Confluent point and the Luo-Connecting point. According to the using times, the top ten acupoints are bai hui(DU 20), jiu wei(RN 15), shen men(HT 7), shen ting(DU 24), pu can(BL 61), xin shu(BL 15), hou xi(SI 3), jin men(BL 63), yong quan(KI 1) and ju que(RN 14).