Abstract:

Massive cerebral Infarction is the complete stroke of the main trunk of internal carotid artery or the main trunk of middle cerebral artery and cortical branches, which is the severe case of cerebral vascular diseases and can develop multiple complications. Consciousness-restoring resuscitation acupuncture method can alleviate the damage of cerebral tissues, giving at the early stage of cerebral infarction in patients. It could also have a good curative effect on the complications of cerebral infarction in the rehabilitation stage. Pulmonary infection is the common complication of cerebral infarction, which is usually the cause of death too. Thus, to prevent and treat pulmonary infection as early as possible could not only relieve the pain and improve the living quality of patients, which also slow down the progression of the disease and decrease the death rate. At present, the routine treatment for pulmonary infection after cerebral infarction includes antibiotic therapy, nursing prevention, and rehabilitation training. These methods have some curative effects on pulmonary infection, but they have limitations too. The methods of acupuncture combined with Chinese herbal medicine have a significant advantage in the treatment of massive cerebral infarction and the concurrent pulmonary infection. This method merely produces drug resistance and has lower recurrence rate than the routine therapies.

Key words: Stroke, Acupuncture therapy, Consciousness-restoring resuscitation, Wei Jing Tang