Health Care : Current Reviews

Energy alterations and treatment in systemic lupus erythematosus patients with altered proteinuria

7^th World Summit on Neonatal Nursing and Health Care & 5^th World Congress on Infection Prevention and Control

October 18, 2022 | Webinar

Huang Wei Ling

Medical Acupuncture and Pain Management Clinic, Brazil

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Health Care Curr Rev

Abstract:

Introduction: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a disease of unknown etiology affecting many organ systems. Clinical evidence of renal disease is present in about 50% of SLE patients and persistent proteinuria occurs in about half of them. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), all autoimmune diseases are linked with Yin deficiency. Purpose: Show that acupuncture was efficient in the treatment of proteinuria in a SLE patient. Methods: M.M.P., 20-year-old, female, had been treated for SLE since 2001 (swelling and pains in her knuckles). In 2003, her symptoms worsened and she was hospitalized (pleural effusion, pericarditis, kidney insufficiency, leukocyte at a low count and secondary septicemia). 2004: pulsotherapy with methylprednisolone. 2005: treatment with cyclophosphamide and azathioprine because of a kidney disease. 2007: pulsotherapy with cyclophosphamide because the kidney disease worsened. January/2008: she had 3540 mg/24 hours of proteinuria. July/2008: Kidney biopsy showed Diffuse Proliferate Glomerulonephritis and Membranous Glomerulonephritis. August 2008: acupuncture treatment twice a week. Points used: CV4, CV12, Ext5, GB34, GV20, HT7, KI3, KI7, LR3, LU9, PC6, ST36, SP6. Auricular points: Apex ear bloodletting; Kidney; Spleen; Lung; Diaphragm; Intestine; Lung; Shen men; Hunger point; Neurasthenic. Results: After 20 sessions of acupuncture her proteinuria fell to 697mg/24 hours. Conclusions: Acupuncture has shown to be a good method in controlling proteinuria for this SLE patient. To achieve this treatment, it is important to see the patient as whole treating energy imbalances of Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood and Heat retention. Keywords: Lupus, Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Auricular Acupuncture.

Biography :

Huang Wei Ling, born in Taiwan, raised and graduated in medicine in Brazil, specialist in infectious and parasitic diseases, a General Practitioner and Parenteral and Enteral Medical Nutrition Therapist. Once in charge of the Hospital Infection Control Service of the City of Franca’s General Hospital, she was responsible for the control of all prescribed antimicrobial medication and received an award for the best paper presented at the Brazilian Hospital Infection Control Congress in 1998. Since 1997, she works with the approach and treatment of all chronic diseases in a holistic way, with treatment guided through the teachings of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hippocrates. Researcher in the University of São Paulo, in the Ophthalmology department from 2012 to 2013.Author of the theory Constitutional Homeopathy of the Five Elements Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine. Author of more than 100 publications about treatment of variety of diseases rebalancing the internal energy using Hippocrates thoughts.