Clinical Example of I-Ching Balance Acupuncture (ICBA) Treatment for BMS

摘要

BURNING MOUTH SYNDROME (BMS) affects Up to 7% of the general population and is a chronic idiopathic pain condition that afflicts middle-age and elderly peri- and postmenopausal women preferentially. These patients present variably with nonspecific persistent symptoms of burning and intraoral pain although their mucosa are healthy.1'2 The prevalence of BMS in the elderly population (ages 65 to 75 or older) has increased exponentially from 5.6% to 57.4% in Japan over the past decade.3 Intraoral pain, distaste, and dryness of the mouth, with variable diurnal severity and presentation are the triad of type I to type III BMS.