Acupuncture treatment, alongside with conventional
medicine, helps reduce higher blood pressure, calm the patient’s fear and other
psychological symptoms and enhance recovery of a patient treated in the
intensive care unit of the hospital. According to a case report published in
the journal of Complementary Therapies in Medicine.
The report recorded the extreme physiological and
emotional shifts manifested in the patient’s tongue on a daily basis which was
rarely observed in other hospital settings.
Dr. Kreindler and colleagues, in the Bnai-Zion Medical
Center, Israel, reported a case study of individualized acupuncture treatment
according to the changes in the tongue of the patient. They reported that an
85-year-old female patient suffering from hypertensive crisis was administered
into intensive care unit. Her doctor requested acupuncture treatment in order
to provide integrative care for her. The changes in patient’s tongue and pulse
were recorded on the daily basis. During the course of medication, cardiac
catherterization and recovery, different acupoints were selected according to
traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) diagnosis, including main symptoms, tongue
and pulse diagnosis.
It was found that blood pressure of patient normalized
within hours after acupuncture and medication. Acupuncture markedly reduced
pain, anxiety and improved the wellbeing during the course of treatment and
recovery.
The authors suggest that combination of conventional
medicine and TCM carries potential to supplement each other and to provide a
better patient care.
Reference:
Kreindler GM et al., A
tongue’s tale — A case report of traditional Chinese medicine integration in the
cardiology department. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 6,
Pages 1041–1046, December 2014. http://www.complementarytherapiesinmedicine.com/article/S0965-2299%2814%2900156-3/abstract
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