A case of pneumonia; cough and accompanying body pain by the cough were effectively treated with acupuncture
10.3777/jjsam.60.84
- VernacularTitle:肺炎による咳嗽とそれに伴う身体疼痛に対する鍼治療の１症例
- Author:
Miki KONISHI
;
SUZUKI Masao
;
Taro TAKEDA
;
Fumihiko FUKUDA
;
Naoto ISHIZAKI
;
Tomoki DOUUE
;
Hiroshi KITAKOUJI
;
Yoshiharu YAMAMURA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
pneumonia;
cough;
body pain;
acupuncture;
antitussive agent
- From:Journal of the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
2010;60(1):84-90
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
Pneumonia is one of major causes of cough, which sometimes resists medication and remarkably deteriorates QOL of the patient. We report a case of pneumonia in a person suffering from severe cough and pain in the general body accompanied by cough for which conventional medication did not work but was improved by acupuncture treatment.
A 47-year-old woman was diagnosed by her physician with pneumonia on August 2, 200X. Although antibiotics were administered, her symptoms were not improved. She visited Meiji University of Integrative Medicine Hospital and was hospitalized on the same day. Despite strict medication with antibiotics, antitussive agent and expectorant during hospitalization, her severe cough and body pain remained unchanged.
Acupuncture treatment was then started on August 7. The basic meridian points used were LU1 (Zhongfu), LU5 (Chize), BL13(Feishu), LU7 (Leique), LI4 (Hegu), GB20 (Fengchi), GB14 (Danzhui), ST12 (Quepen), ST11 (Qishe), and CV22 (Tiantu). The acupuncture needles were retained for ten minutes at these points in each session. After ten acupuncture treatments for over seven days, the VAS for body pain accompanied by cough showed a remarkable improvement. Also, significant relief in cough was observed every time immediately after treatment.
We suggested that acupuncture treatment might be useful for cough and/or pain in the body accompanied by cough in a patient with pneumonia.
