Child wilting pattern

Any limpness of the limbs and inability to grasp objects in children. Chinese medicine traditionally had no disease name corresponding to infantile paralysis in modern medicine. Child wilting pattern is a modern Chinese medical term that corresponds in Western medicine to infantile paralysis as the sequela of poliomyelitis or resulting from other causes such as infantile myodystrophy. Child wilting patterns are attributed to dual depletion of qì and humor and lung heat scorching the lobes after febrile disease, depriving the skin and sinews of nourishment, or to warm heat sweltering the yáng brightness (yáng míng), with slackness of the ancestral sinews. They may also be attributed to insufficiency of the earlier heaven constitution with depletion of the liver and kidney.

Medicinal therapy: See wilting.

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on yáng brightness (yáng míng) channel points. Main points: LI-4 (Union Valley, 合谷 hé gǔ), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend, 曲池 qū chí), ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ), and SP-6 (Three Yīn Intersection, 三阴交 sān yīn jiāo). For lung heat scorching the lobes, add LU-7 (Broken Sequence, 列缺 liè quē), GB-20 (Wind Pool, 风池 fēng chí), and KI-6 (Shining Sea, 照海 zhào hǎi). needling with drainage. For insufficiency of earlier heaven constitution with depletion of the liver and kidney, add BL-18 (Liver Transport, 肝俞 gān shù), BL-23 (Kidney Transport, 肾俞 shèn shù), GB-39 (Suspended Bell, 悬钟 xuán zhōng), GB-34 (Yáng Mound Spring, 阳陵泉 yáng líng quán), and KI-3 (Great Ravine, 太溪 tài xī), needling with supplementation.

Point selection according to affected area: For difficulty raising the shoulder, add GB-21 (Shoulder Well, 肩井 jiān jǐng), LI-15 (Shoulder Bone, 肩髃 jiān yú), TB-14 (Shoulder Bone-Hole, 肩髎 jiān liáo), LI-16 (Great Bone, 巨骨 jù gǔ), and SI-11 (Celestial Gathering, 天宗 tiān zōng). For limp wrists, add TB-5 (Outer Pass, 外关 wài guān), SI-5 (Yang Valley, 阳谷 yáng gǔ), and Central Spring (中泉 zhōng quán). For paralysis of the lower limbs, add GV-4 (Life Gate, 命门 mìng mén), GB-33 (Knee Yáng Joint, 膝阳关 xī yáng guān), ST-31 (Thigh Joint, 髀关 bì guān), BL-37 (Gate of Abundance, 殷门 yīn mén), GB-30 (Jumping Round, 环跳 huán tiào), GB-34 (Yáng Mound Spring, 阳陵泉 yáng líng quán), and GB-39 (Suspended Bell, 悬钟 xuán zhōng). For paralysis of the abdominal muscles, add CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct, 中脘 zhōng wǎn) and ST-25 (Celestial Pivot, 天枢 tiān shū).