METHOD OF TREATING THYROID DYSFUNCTION Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC A61H39/08 A61H39/04 A61H7/00 A61N5/67 A61M19/00 A61K31/245 A61P29/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: method involves acupuncture treatment of points and regions located on a surface of an auricle corresponding to a thyroid gland, a cervical spine, a hypophysis, a hypothalamus and a brain stem, as well as treatment of a neck and a paravertebral region. In addition, covered are points and regions on the surfaces of the auricle corresponding to two superior cervical, middle cervical and inferior cervical ganglions, lymphatic throat masses, a throat, a tongue, salivary glands, lateral and posterior horns of spinal cord, a reticular formation and a cerebellum. The treatment is combined with low-intensity infrared laser light, and/or with traditional massage, and/or acupuncture, and/or with therapeutic blocks of the reflex regions functionally related to cervical, and/or thoracic, and/or lumbar sympathetic ganglions and parasympathetic cerebral ganglions, and/or of their projections and nerve plexuses related to these vegetative structures, including paravertebral portions in a projection of spinal segments C 1-3, C 5-6, C 7 - Th 1, Th 1 - Th 3, Th 5 - Th 7, Th 11 - L 3, and/or of the regions found along edges of a sternocleidomastoid muscle opposite to a mandibular angle and in their middle, and/or of the region located behind a mastoid of a temporal bone, and/or of a mammary zone, and/or of a submaxillary zone, and/or an area under a malar bone, and/or parasternal and paraclavicular areas. Treatment point is specified by thermography on the basis of hyperthermia or hypothermia, and/or by physical examination on the basis of muscular induration and/or tenderness. Besides, in hypothyroidism, or in excessive functional thyroid tension, or in impaired cold tolerance, or in decrease of body temperature, the treatment involves therapeutic courses including thermal physiotherapeutic procedures.

EFFECT: method provides stable normalisation of thyroid activity with considerable reduction of drug therapy administered.

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