[SHENG Can-ruo's experience in treatment of goiter with integrated acupuncture and herbal medication].

The paper introduces professor SHENG Can-ruo's experience in treatment of goiter with the combination of acupuncture and herbal medication. Professor SHENG believes that this disease is mostly related with emotional injury, improper diet and geographical and climatic factors, as well as body constitution. Qi stagnation, phlegm retention, blood stagnation and interaction of phlegm and stasis are the essential pathogenesis of goiter. Either acupuncture or herbal medication should focus on "phlegm and stasis" in treatment. Besides, the theory of western medicine should also be considered. In western medicine, thyroid enlargement is classified into Ⅰ, Ⅱ and Ⅲ degrees of struma, thus, the pathogenesis and treatment with Chinese medicine should be adjusted accordingly. The created "four throat points", combined with acupuncture at distal points, relieve the local masses. The basic herbal formula is prepared and the couplet medicines are modified based on syndrome differentiation. The integrated acupuncture and herbal medication regulates emotions and provides a comprehensive treatment for goiter.

[Professor SHENG Can-ruo's experience in treatment of peripheral facial paralysis with combined therapy of acupuncture-moxibustion and herbal medicine].

This paper introduces the specific clinical experience of professor SHENG Can-ruo in treatment of peripheral facial paralysis with the combination of acupuncture-moxibustion and herbal medicine. Professor SHENG Can-ruo advocates "acupuncture-moxibustion for the external and herbal decoction for the internal", inventes "three facial points" and "jianei point" and experienced in "pair points" and "pair herbs". Professor SHENG rationally applies penetrating needling technique, mutually uses acupuncture-moxibustion and herbal medicine and determines the treatment in stages so that the remarkably clinical effect has been achieved on peripheral facial paralysis.