三叉神经痛是现代医学病名,中医称之为“面痛”、“面游风”、“齿槽风”等病名。目前,病因尚未明确。该病是在三又神经分支区域内已出现反复发作短暂闪电样、刀割样、火灼样剧烈疼痛为特征。常因吃饭、饮水、洗脸、刷牙或触动面部诱发阵痛。严重危害患者的健康,直接影响其工作和生活,甚至会产生害怕剧痛的恐惧心理,患者极为痛苦,有少数病人因不能忍受其痛苦,曾有发生“轻生”的例子。三叉神经痛是医学界公认的顽固性疑难疾病之一,国内外还缺乏根治此病的特效疗法,攻克三叉神经痛是国内外医学界多年来研究的课题。目前,常用的治疗方法有手术、射频、封闭、药物穴位注射、针灸及口服西 Trigeminal neuralgia is the name of modern medicine, traditional Chinese medicine called “face pain”, “facial wind”, “alveolar wind” and other disease names. At present, the cause is not yet clear. The disease is characterized by repeated episodes of lightning, knife-like, and severe fire-like pain in the region of the triad and the nerve. Often due to eating, drinking water, wash your face, brush your teeth or touch the face to induce pain. Seriously endangering the health of patients, directly affecting their work and life, and even causing fear of fear of severe pain, the patient is extremely painful, there are a few cases of “suicide” occurred because a few patients can not stand the pain. Trigeminal neuralgia is one of the refractory and difficult diseases recognized by the medical community. At home and abroad, there is still a lack of specific therapies to cure the disease. To overcome the problem of trigeminal neuralgia is a subject that has been studied by medical circles both at home and abroad for many years. At present, the commonly used methods of treatment are surgery, radiofrequency, closed, drug point injection, acupuncture and oral