LIN Hongyang, TENG Zhengwen, LI Jia. Nursing Report of Bamboo Cupping Combined with Acupoint Bloodletting for One Patient with Postherpetic Neuralgia[DB/OL].Clinical Archives of Integrative Medicine, 2026.
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LIN Hongyang, TENG Zhengwen, LI Jia. Nursing Report of Bamboo Cupping Combined with Acupoint Bloodletting for One Patient with Postherpetic Neuralgia[DB/OL].Clinical Archives of Integrative Medicine, 2026.DOI: 10.12209/CAIM202605200005.
Nursing Report of Bamboo Cupping Combined with Acupoint Bloodletting for One Patient with Postherpetic Neuralgia
This article summarizes the nursing experience of treating a patient with postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) who responded poorly to conventional Western analgesic therapy using bamboo cupping combined with acupoint bloodletting. Through TCM syndrome differentiation-based nursing, the patient initially received oral Chinese herbal medicine in combination with external TCM therapies—namely, bamboo cupping and acupoint bloodletting. At the later stage, external TCM therapies were administered alone at the patient's request, accompanied by systematic nursing interventions. After a total of three weeks of treatment, the patient's rash resolved, pain was completely alleviated, hyperpigmentation at the original lesion site faded, and sleep quality improved significantly. This case indicates that bamboo cupping combined with acupoint bloodletting can markedly relieve PHN symptoms, with definite efficacy in analgesia and sleep improvement. Moreover, this approach is simple to perform, provides a safe and effective external TCM nursing protocol for PHN, and warrants broader clinical application.
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