溫氏現代針灸 溫崇凱中醫診所-耳針眼針頭皮針舌針權威-跟診日誌

Saving Patients from Hearing Loss with Acupuncture

Treating the functional degeneration or loss of the sensory system is very tricky, be it visual, auditory, olfactory, or gustatory. Therefore, it is important to protect the five sense organs when healthy. However, clinically, there are some patients whose functions of the sensory systems are congenitally weak. For these patients, although they do not overuse their sensory system, their sensory system is likely to degenerate prematurely. During my observation at the clinic, I encountered a patient who had lost the hearing in one of his ears since he was little. He was now about fifty years old and had experienced hearing loss in his other ear for several months, along with ‘fragmenting’ noises that sounded like broken TV or radio signals. He could not hear his colleagues or wife calling him from far away. When people talked to him from a close distance, they sounded very piercing to him. After contracting this illness, the pre-existent ringing in his ears had become louder. Furthermore, he had had his hearing tested in hospitals before and the results were poor. He had received hyperbaric therapies and taken steroids, B vitamins and western medicines for boosting blood circulation, but none of them had improved his condition. As a result, the patient had been so anxious that he could not sleep. He worried that if he could not hear even with the remaining ear, his life would become black and white.

    人的五官覺受功能退化或喪失，是非常難處理的一件事。不管是視覺、聽覺、嗅覺、味覺等都屬高難度，因此平時五官要好好保護。但臨床上少數有些先天功能比較弱化的患者，雖沒過度使用，也可能提早發生退步。臨床跟診就遇到一位從小就單耳失聰的患者，現今約五十歲，另一耳也開始出現聽覺損壞(hearing loss)幾個月了，還伴隨著像是電視或收音機收不到訊號會出現的斷訊雜音，同事或老婆太遠叫他，他都聽不到，太靠近他講話，則還會覺得很刺耳；病發後本來就有的耳鳴變更大聲。再加上已去過大醫院測試聽力，數據很糟；做了高壓氧、吃類固醇與維他命B群和促進血液流動的西藥，能做的全試過皆毫無進展，因此患者焦慮到睡不著，擔憂如果連這一耳也聽不到，那人生就變黑白了。

    其實他坐在老師跟前說明症狀時，已可看出這個患者聽力損害程度蠻嚴重的，因為他在交談時，身體側身前傾，用他微弱聽力那側對著老師。一般若有聽力損害不甚嚴重者，坐姿通常不會那麼明顯側身的，因為還有另一邊是聽得到的。因此他幾乎是用哀求的語氣在跟老師陳述的，一般情況老師聽完主訴後就開始扎針，但那天老師罕見地講了一句話，他與患者面對面，語氣堅定厚實地說，"我了解你的痛苦，我一定盡全力救你！"那位男患者聽完後當場擒住淚水、用力抿著嘴、說不出話來，低下頭表示謝謝。現場那種連動的氣場與氛圍，連站在旁邊跟診的我都感染到想泛淚了。無論如何，面對抓著最後一根稻草的患者，醫師仍舊不放棄、願意用最強大的願力能量來救，怎可能不感動呢！