• The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.515-519
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• 2000

Developing of antibiotic, bacterial meningitis is one of the disease of high mortality. Especially in case of gram negative, pneumococal meningitis, they have high mortality and neurological disorders after treatment. Main symptoms of bacterial meningitis are fever, headache, vomit, neck stiffness and coma etc. In oriental medicine, acute feverish infectious diseases have been treated as wenbing(溫病). We can divide wenbing into 8 kinds. Bacterial meningitis is included as Chunwen(春溫), fengwen(風溫) in the sight of similarity on the symptoms and falling ill. Comparing with CVA, we have too rare cases of treating bacterial meningitis with oriental medicine. A case of sequelae of bacterial meningitis patient diagnosed as Chunon, pungon showed prominent improvement by herb med and acupuncture treatment etc.