Patient Case 2 (Autonomic imbalance, Headache)

Male, 40s, Headache

Main symptom

• Heavier than the neck and has a headache

Other symptoms

• Tinnitus
• Easy to wake up
• Easy to diarrhea
• Clenching
• Sensitive to cold air

Palpation and observations

• Pulse examination
  • deficient/excessive pulse
  • rapid/slow pulse
  • sunken/floating pulse
  • thin/weak pulse
  • tension/strig-like pulse
• Tongue inspection
  • Tongue
  • Tongue coating
• Meridian Pulse Diagnosis
  • Kidney deficiency
  • pattern: Spleen Kidney Yang Deficiency

Treatment policy

• Due to chronic diarrhea, nutrients cannot be absorbed sufficiently and the brain cannot be supplied with nutrients.
• The spleen meridian improves the intestines. The back meridian improves the flow of qi.
• Relaxed for muscle tone in the neck, temporal region, and crown.

Follow-up

• First time: After the treatment, there were no symptoms for 3 days.
• Second time: Strong clenching. I came to the hospital because my headache was getting worse.
• 3rd time: I came to the hospital because it became painful after 3 weeks.
• 4th time: Symptoms gradually appeared, so He visited the clinic, and acupuncture to the left neck relieved the pain in the left side of the head.
• After that, I visited the hospital once a month, and four and a half months after the first visit, my headache had improved and it was not a pain,
  The heavy and taut feeling remains.