Clinical research on rule of acupoint heat-sensitization within patients suffer Bell's palsy

This study is to explore the rule of acupoint heat-sensitization within patients who suffer Bell's palsy. Probe the rule of acupoint heat-sensitization within patients suffer Bell's palsy by recording the phenomenon and contrasting the frequency of acupoints, meridians, patterns of manifestation between healthy control volunteers and patients. We found that there was statistical difference between two groups on the frequency of acupoint heat-sensitization phenomenon (P 0.05). Thus we conclude that the frequency of acupoint heat-sensitization phenomenon within Bell's palsy patients is higher than normal volunteers, and the difference of patterns of manifestation, distribution of acupoints and meridians are all associated with channels, but not with the TCM syndromes.