1Department of Family Medicine, St. Martin De Porres Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan
2Institute of Traditional Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
3Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
4The School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
5Taiwan Association Traditional Chinese Medicine of Family, Taipei, Taiwan
【Summary】
Background: Epidemic myalgia is a disease that presents with fever and myalgia of the trunk due to an acute enterovirus infection. In western medicine, this disease is seldom reported in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. However, patients with epidemic myalgia tend to seek traditional Chinese medicine for acupuncture and Chinese herbal therapy. This article aims to highlight a case of suspected epidemic myalgia
which differentiated as the Shao-Yin type exogenous febrile disease according to traditional Chinese medicine symptoms.
Case presentation: A 38-year-old woman presented with fever, sweating, chills, and acute episodes of headache, chest tightness and back pain for three days. Following treatment with acupuncture at GV24 and BL3, the fever subsided and the symptoms of headache and back pain relieved immediately. Furthermore, the disease was totally cured barely two days later using traditional Chinese medicine treatment.
Conclusions: Based on this case report, epidemic myalgia differentiated as the Shao-Yin type according to traditional Chinese medicine symptoms could be rapidly relieved via acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine therapy.
Keywords:Shao-Yin Disease, Exogenous Febrile Disease, Epidemic Myalgia, Traditional Chinese Medicin