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Traditional Chinese Medicine and Skin Diseases Ear Acupuncture Therapy for Psoriasis | Chapter 15 | New Insights into Disease and Pathogen Research Vol. 3

Psoriasis is an inflammatory chronic disease affecting both genders, approximately 2-3% of the world population. Although there are different clinical forms of psoriasis, the most common type is Psoriasis vulgaris. It presents skin patches typically red, itchy and scaly with different levels of severity and extension, established clinically by Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI). Because of these facts, there are many types of interventions focused on your treatment, looking for effectiveness and safety. The immunomodulatory effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine (MTC) technics has been proven experimentally in the control of inflammation and analgesia, however there are few studies that evaluate the auriculotherapy as treatment in autoimmune diseases and its pathological processes. Six patients with different degrees of PASI were treated with auriculotherapy using the points: Shemen, Kidney, Sympathetic Nervous System, Occipital, Adrenal, Allergy, Anxiety, Local Point, Hives and Tension for fourteen weeks or until symptoms disappeared. These cases showed that ear acupuncture therapy can be effective in the treatment of psoriasis at different stages. While the patients in the early stage of symptoms, even if was relapse, respond quickly to treatment, it was observed the clinical response of a patient with severe erythematous psoriasis (PASI 25.8), resistant to other treatments, significantly regressed after 14 weeks (2.4 PASI). The results indicate the importance of the development of a case-control design, to confirm the indication of this kind of therapy to Psoriasis vulgaris.

Author(s) Details

Maria Lucia S. G. Jorge
Department of Pharmacology, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), IBRATE – Faculty of Technology, Brazil.

Sandra Silvério-Lopes
Acupuncture Research Center, IBRATE - Faculty of Technology, Brazil.

Lirane Carneiro-Suliano
Department of Odontology, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), IBRATE- Faculty of Technology, Brazil.

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