Today I would like to discuss a recent case where I treated a patient for shingles .
Male,49 years old. First visit was on 2018-10-31.
He had some uncomfortable feeling in his right abdomen , somewhere close to his navel on October 26th, 2018. The next day red dots appeared in that area. On October 28th, early in the morning he woke up with severe chest pain that made him thought he was going to have a heart attack. He went to the ER and got a diagnosis for shingles. He started to take antivirals on October 28th, however, the shingles still develop to his right back in lower and middle area.
I observed his tongue and felt his pulse . The picture below were taken in the first visit before acupuncture and herbs treatment.
Pulse: deep and slow.
Urine : yellow colour.
Diagnosis : shingles , Dampness-Heat type.
After one acupuncture and two days of herbs. His symptoms improved a lot.
The pictures below were taken in second visit.
After two treatment sessions, he is almost recovered from shingles.
Here is an old case I published before. I am sorry that this case I didn't take the picture before acupuncture treatment.
Female, 55yrs old, first visit was in 2017-02-05. Chief complaint: left lower back pain since January 28, 2017, the pain was fixed in one area; left breast had sense of electric shock. These symptoms have gotten worse. Now her left lower back has severe pain. She also has headaches, and aversion to cold. Other complaints include frequent urination with less fluid passed each time, a stinging feeling when urinating, unquenchable thirst, and preference for cold drinks.
Male,49 years old. First visit was on 2018-10-31.
He had some uncomfortable feeling in his right abdomen , somewhere close to his navel on October 26th, 2018. The next day red dots appeared in that area. On October 28th, early in the morning he woke up with severe chest pain that made him thought he was going to have a heart attack. He went to the ER and got a diagnosis for shingles. He started to take antivirals on October 28th, however, the shingles still develop to his right back in lower and middle area.
I observed his tongue and felt his pulse . The picture below were taken in the first visit before acupuncture and herbs treatment.
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Tongue: as you can see, this tongue is enlarged with thick white coating, which means he has dampness inside his body.Pulse: deep and slow.
Urine : yellow colour.
Diagnosis : shingles , Dampness-Heat type.
After one acupuncture and two days of herbs. His symptoms improved a lot.
The pictures below were taken in second visit.
Here is an old case I published before. I am sorry that this case I didn't take the picture before acupuncture treatment.
Female, 55yrs old, first visit was in 2017-02-05. Chief complaint: left lower back pain since January 28, 2017, the pain was fixed in one area; left breast had sense of electric shock. These symptoms have gotten worse. Now her left lower back has severe pain. She also has headaches, and aversion to cold. Other complaints include frequent urination with less fluid passed each time, a stinging feeling when urinating, unquenchable thirst, and preference for cold drinks.
Check: bright red rashes with a few bumps filled
with clear fluid. The bumps are as large
as soybeans.The rashes grow horizontal in the left lower back across
the body longitudinal line, and the skin
in that area feels hot.
Tongue: light
red colour, white coating
Pulse: rapid
and thread-like, pulse rate is not consistent.
This case has
both hot and cold symptoms at the same time, cold symptoms like aversion to
cold, and hot symptoms of hot skin, frequent and short urination,
thirst, and preference for cold drinks.
My diagnosis
is hot type of shingles.
Treatment:
First treatment was on 2017-02-05. I used acupuncture,
cupping and herbs.
Second was in
2017-02-06, acupuncture and herbs. The picture below was taken after one treatment.
Third
was on 2017-02-09. The picture below was taken after two treatments.
Fourth was on 2017-02-14. The picture below was taken after three treatments.
The third and fourth treatments
were herbal medicine only.
查：疹色鮮紅，手觸熱感,，在左腰部带状分布，已越过 人体纵线。 舌：淡紅，苔白 脈：細 數，不均勻。
該病例既有寒像，如怕冷，又有熱像如疹色鮮紅，熱感，尿短量少，尿頻，尿時有刺痛感。舌脈不是典型的熱像。但根據她的疹色和皮膚溫度，我診斷是熱證。
中醫診斷：蛇串
瘡—熱證
一診治療（2 月5日） ：
針刺選穴：蛇頭，蛇尾，蛇7寸。火針刺破幾個大泡。局部拔罐。
中藥：龍膽草 生地 菊花 黃柏 黃芩 丹皮 車前子 黃梔子 扁蓄草 甘草
