Effective treatment of oriental medicine for recovery of patients with paralysis of the liver
Aug 25, 2025
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On the 25th, the Spinal Joint Research Institute (Director Ha In-hyuk) of Jaseng Oriental Hospital announced that it published a research paper analyzing the clinical effects of oriental medicine treatment on patients with nerve palsy in Korea in the SCI(E)-level international journal `Medicine (IF=1.4).'
Middle-aged nerve palsy is a neurological disease that causes problems in eye movement, eyelid raising, and pupil response due to damage to the nerves while the main cranial nerve responsible for eye and eyelid movement. Symptoms such as eyelid sewage, double vision (a phenomenon in which a single object appears to be double), exotropia (a phenomenon in which the eyes turn outward), and pupil enlargement appear and place considerable restrictions on daily life.
Jeong Hyuk-jin, a research team of oriental doctors at the Spinal Joint Research Institute of Jaseng Oriental Medicine Hospital, conducted integrated oriental medicine treatment with external eye muscle motion acupuncture as the main treatment for nerve palsy patients while preservation treatment did not improve. Motion acupuncture is a acupuncture method in which an oriental doctor actively and manually induces a patient's movement while placing a needle in a blood spot around the painful area to relieve tense muscles.
The patient was a 43-year-old woman who developed symptoms of left ocular palsy, double vision, and fundus during postpartum care after cesarean section, and was diagnosed with neuroparalysis during left by brain MRI and clinical evaluation. In addition, the patient initially received inpatient treatment and outpatient steroid treatment at Yangbang Hospital, but there was no improvement in symptoms for four weeks, and then he received integrated oriental medicine treatment for six weeks from June 26 to August 9, 2023 at Jaseng Oriental Medicine Hospital.
As a treatment method, the external eye muscle motion acupuncture was performed first. The external eye muscle motion acupuncture method is a treatment that induces the patient's eyeball to move in a limited direction after placing saliva on the upper rectum (one of the muscles that moves the eyes upward), and was repeated for about 10 minutes. General acupuncture treatment was performed on the main blood spot located in the eyebrow area, ears, and back neck, and anterior acupuncture (precipitation stimulation) was performed in parallel.
In addition, the acupuncture needle was injected into the Yepoonghyeol located right behind the ear, and the acupuncture solution of Hwangnyeon Haedoktang was placed in the eyeball. On top of that, Chuna therapy and herbal medicine prescription were sequentially performed.
The degree of clinical improvement of the patient was confirmed by the levator palpebrae function test. The test measures the distance the eyelid travels by pressing and fixing both eyebrows with the thumb and looking up while looking down as much as possible. Normal people move more than 14mm, but when the patient first came to the hospital, the function of the eyelid root was 11mm, which was lower than the normal level, and was accompanied by horizontal double vision.
The degree of recovery of blepharius function was not noticeable until the second week of treatment, but improvement was confirmed from the third week, approaching the normal level at the fourth week, and eventually normalized at the sixth week. The eyelid sewage also gradually improved and recovered to a normal level at the end of the treatment, and the strabismus symptoms were completely corrected, showing normal eye alignment.
In general, it has been reported that the average recovery period of patients with nerve paralysis during the period is 130.1±145.1 days for vascular paralysis and 76.6±92.6 days for idiopathic paralysis, usually requiring follow-up observation of 3 to 6 months. However, in this case study, signs of improvement were observed at one and a half months after the start of treatment, showing more than twice as fast recovery as before.
Jeong Hyuk-jin, an oriental medicine doctor, said, "This case study confirmed that the integrated treatment of oriental medicine, including external eye muscle motion acupuncture, is an effective and rapid recovery method for patients with nerve paralysis while not responding to preservation treatment"We hope that clinical studies on a large number of patients will be conducted in the future, providing a basis for proving the effectiveness of motion acupuncture."
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
