Wei Syndrome

INTRODUCTION ACUPUNCTURE FOR WEI-SYNDROME

INTRODUCTION ACUPUNCTURE FOR WEI-SYNDROME

Peripheral neuropathy presents many of the characteristics of TCM wei-syndrome (萎证): it's marked by the symptoms of flaccidity of body tissue and motor/sensory impairment. Traditionally, wei-syndrome in TCM is a pattern has a wider range of implication to conditions such like sequelae of encephalitis, spinal cord trauma, muscular atrophy due to polio, multiple sclerosis (MS)and tumors in the CNS, etc.