Liu Chengzhong (Zhongguo Medical College)
The disease is characterized by the paroxysmal morbid feelings which spread along the channel on the body surface. It is of two types. One type is a painful feeling spreading along the channels and is called "Propagated Algesia along Channels", abreviated "PAC". The other consists of various abnormal feelings spreading along the channels is termed "Propagated Paresthesia along Channels", abreviated "PPC". Of the 80 cases 45 were male and 35 female, their ages are from 11 to 60. The shortest course was 3 days and the longest 10 years. There were 43 cases of PAC, the rest being cases of PPC. The feelings of PPC cases included numbness, warm, jumping, blowing, water flowing, cold, ache and itch. PAC and PPC were able to reach the channels 119 times. They tended to be concentrated in Urinary Bladder Channel, Stomach Channel, Large Intestine Channel, Gall Bladder Channel, Pericardium Channel, Ren Mai (the Front Midline Channel) and Du Mai (the Back Midline Channel) (totaling 101 times of channels, 84.9%). Others are distributed over Spleen Channel, Kidney Channel, Sanjiao Channel, Small Intestine Channel, Dai Mai (the Belt Channel), Chong Mai (the Vital Channel) and Yinchiao Mai (the Motility Channel of Yin).
The number of attacks was 2 to 6 everyday, each attack lasting 3 minutes to 3 hours. It always begins at a fixed point on the body surface, spreads at a certain speed and width along the channels and after reaching a fixed point, either remains unchanged or disappears and occurs again. There were 55 cases (68.8 per cent) in which the attack was stopped by pressing the course. In a few cases the attacks were accompanied by mental and emotional symptoms or visceral crisis. There were 47 cases (58.8 per cent) in which belt of sensory disturbances or areas composed of many dermatomes appeared following the attack. In 4 cases the patients fell asleep or had paresis of the corresponding limbs after the attack. 17 cases (21.3 per cent) had a history of concussion of the brain. Small localized foci were found at the point of origin in 29 cases (36.3 per cent). In 4 of the 13 cases who were examined with encephalography at intervals, there was a superiority of slow active waves.
Since 1959, 15 PAC cases and 1 PPC case have been reported in the country with different names. The author thinks: this disease should be considered as belonging to "producing diseases itself (in channel)". In modern medicine this disease is characterized by the features of both Jacksonian sensory epilepsy and reflex sensory epilepsy. It is perhaps a sensory epilepsy spread along the channels.
Anti-epilepsy drugs taken orally, blocking or burying of catgut at the point of origin have been used to treat this disease with satisfactory results.
The disease is characterized by the paroxysmal morbid feelings which spread along the channel on the body surface. It is of two types. One type is a painful feeling spreading along the channels and is called "Propagated Algesia along Channels", abreviated "PAC". The other consists of various abnormal feelings spreading along the channels is termed "Propagated Paresthesia along Channels", abreviated "PPC". Of the 80 cases 45 were male and 35 female, their ages are from 11 to 60. The shortest course was 3 days and the longest 10 years. There were 43 cases of PAC, the rest being cases of PPC. The feelings of PPC cases included numbness, warm, jumping, blowing, water flowing, cold, ache and itch. PAC and PPC were able to reach the channels 119 times. They tended to be concentrated in Urinary Bladder Channel, Stomach Channel, Large Intestine Channel, Gall Bladder Channel, Pericardium Channel, Ren Mai (the Front Midline Channel) and Du Mai (the Back Midline Channel) (totaling 101 times of channels, 84.9%). Others are distributed over Spleen Channel, Kidney Channel, Sanjiao Channel, Small Intestine Channel, Dai Mai (the Belt Channel), Chong Mai (the Vital Channel) and Yinchiao Mai (the Motility Channel of Yin).
The number of attacks was 2 to 6 everyday, each attack lasting 3 minutes to 3 hours. It always begins at a fixed point on the body surface, spreads at a certain speed and width along the channels and after reaching a fixed point, either remains unchanged or disappears and occurs again. There were 55 cases (68.8 per cent) in which the attack was stopped by pressing the course. In a few cases the attacks were accompanied by mental and emotional symptoms or visceral crisis. There were 47 cases (58.8 per cent) in which belt of sensory disturbances or areas composed of many dermatomes appeared following the attack. In 4 cases the patients fell asleep or had paresis of the corresponding limbs after the attack. 17 cases (21.3 per cent) had a history of concussion of the brain. Small localized foci were found at the point of origin in 29 cases (36.3 per cent). In 4 of the 13 cases who were examined with encephalography at intervals, there was a superiority of slow active waves.
Since 1959, 15 PAC cases and 1 PPC case have been reported in the country with different names. The author thinks: this disease should be considered as belonging to "producing diseases itself (in channel)". In modern medicine this disease is characterized by the features of both Jacksonian sensory epilepsy and reflex sensory epilepsy. It is perhaps a sensory epilepsy spread along the channels.
Anti-epilepsy drugs taken orally, blocking or burying of catgut at the point of origin have been used to treat this disease with satisfactory results.
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