Ideas of “Treating Encephalopathy with Ear Therapy” Based on the Auricular Point Vagus Nerve Electrical Stimulation Technique and Its Clinical Application
LI Shaoyuan, RONG Peijing, ZHANG Yue, et al. Ideas of “Treating Encephalopathy with Ear Therapy” Based on the Auricular Point Vagus Nerve Electrical Stimulation Technique and Its Clinical Application[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2020, 61(24): 2154-2158.
LI Shaoyuan, RONG Peijing, ZHANG Yue, et al. Ideas of “Treating Encephalopathy with Ear Therapy” Based on the Auricular Point Vagus Nerve Electrical Stimulation Technique and Its Clinical Application[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2020, 61(24): 2154-2158.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2020.24.009.
Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) encephalopathy is a collective term for a variety of diseases of the nervous system
spirit mental and physical systems. Through systematically combing the relevant records on the treatment of encephalopathy in the ancient TCM literatures
combined with modern neuroanatomy theories
a method based on the electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve at auricular points is proposed; starting from the theoretical construction
it is proposed that the application of ear-point vagus nerve electrical stimulation in depression
epilepsy
disturbance of consciousness
insomnia disorders and other brain diseases
providing new ideas and methods for clinical treatment of encephalopathy.