Behcet’s disease is a disease which has oral, eye, genital lesions as the major symptoms, also known as “mouth, eye, genital mucosa ulcerations triad.” or painful oral mucocutaneous ulcerations, Inflammatory eye disease and Inflammatory eye disease. The disease often involves conditions in the joints, large blood vessels, lungs, kidneys, gastrointestinal and central nervous system, and even cause damage to many organs at the same time. As the disease recurring, it can be misdiagnosis into oral, skin, and eye isolated disease. Its etiology is unknown, and the modern Western medicine has no ideal control of the disease drug.
As early as the third century AD, “Synopsis of the Golden Chamber” has a specific description: “HuHuo disease … … in accordance with the throat for Huo, erosion in the Yin as Hu. Its description report is earlier as Behcet’s more than 1700 years. At the same time, “Golden Chamber” also recorded licorice Xiexin formula for its treatment.
Three diagnosis differentiations with Behcet’s:
1) Heat Damp: Oral, genital ulcers, ulceration with red color and burning pain. Two eyes are swelling and pain, foggy. Other conditions are fever, mouth pain, dry throat, upset irritability, restless, bad breath constipation, urination yellow red. Red tongue, with some ulceration, yellow greasy tongue coating, slippery pulse number or string number.
2) Yin deficiency and heat up: lingering, oral, genital ulcers recurrent, dark red ulcers, ulcers burning, eyes dry, dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia and more dreams, PM facial flushing, short red urine, constipation, tongue red and crack with thin white coating.
3) Spleen and Kidney Yang deficiency: Dizziness, fatigue, pale, no appetite, back and knee pain, chills, face swelling, lower extremity edema, diarrhea, urine clear long. Tongue coating thin, side with tooth marks, pulse deep and weak.
Acupuncture treatment of Behcet’s disease researched in China hospital.
Acupoints: Hegu, Feishu, Pishu, Neiguan, ShaoChong, FengChi, Zusanli.
Operation: each selected 5-6 points; take bilateral, make sure the needle sensation is ‘De Chi’, needle in 10–15 minutes, every day or every other day. Once treatment cycle includes 15 times visits.
Efficacy: A total of 12 patients treated in the course of treatment. After treatment cycle, various symptoms are evaluated: oral ulcers is 80%, genital ulcers 80%, skin nodules and hyperplasia is 70%, joint symptoms are 100 improved.
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