Abstract

Chinese medicinal herb therapy was adopted to treat 68 cases of peripheral facial paralysis. The treatment was conducted once daily, with 10 days being a therapeutic course. Following three courses of treatments, the results showed a reliable and rapid clinical therapeutic effect that 35 cases were cured, 17 cases experienced remarkable effect, and 9 cases had improvement and failure in 7 cases, with a total effective rate of 89.7%. And the patients whose disease duration was within 2 weeks, the effective rate was 97.6%, and for disease duration was over 2 weeks, the effective rate was 77.8%, indicating that the shorter the duration, the better the therapeutic effect was.

Key words: Chinese medicinal herb therapy, peripheral facial paralysis, therapeutic effect.