Treating Postlaparoscopic Surgery Shoulder Pain with Acupuncture

Table 4

Individual patient TCM syndrome and VAS scores.

Patient	Main TCM syndrome	PLSP before	PLSP after	General pain before	General pain after
1	Heat in the heart + phlegm	9.8	1.1	8.9	3.5
2	Sp Qi def. + phlegm	9.9	1.6	8.6	2.6
3	Phlegm	8	0.9	6.9	0.7
4	Phlegm	9.8	1.2	6.8	0.4
5	Lung Qi def.	9.9	3.8	7.8	2.1
6	Qi def. + phlegm	9.8	4.2	7.9	5.2
7	Phlegm heat in the stomach and intestine + kidney Yin def. + heat	7.9	0.9	5.7	2.8
8	Phlegm heat	3.6	0.6	5.4	0
9	Spleen Qi def., blood def. in the heart	9.9	1.9	1.2	0
10	Kidney Yin and Yang def.	5.2	1.1	0	0
11	Lung heat/fire + liver Yang rising	8.3	0.4	7.4	0.7
12	Spleen Qi def. + liver Qi stg.	9.7	0.3	6.6	1.2
13	Gall bladder heat and phlegm	7.1	1.8	0.8	0.3
14	Phlegm in upper burner	9.9	6.6	7.3	4.8
15	Liver Qi stg. + heat in upper burner	7	3.5	8.6	7.1
16	Lung heat/fire + gall bladder heat and phlegm stg.	8.9	1	6.6	0.4
17	Liver Qi and blood stg.	8	1	5.5	1.4
18	Kidney Yin and Yang def.	9.9	1.7	0	0
19	Stomach Qi stg. + spleen Qi def.	8.9	0.2	8.7	0.6
20	Spleen Qi def. + dampness + liver blood stg.	4.8	3.6	6	6.1
21	Spleen dampness + liver Qi stg.	9.7	6.5	6.8	4.8
22	Phlegm heat	9.7	0.8	8.8	1.2
23	Phlegm heat in the stomach + liver Qi stg.	6.3	0.6	4.7	0.8
24	Phlegm heat in the stomach + phlegm could in the triple burner	9.8	0.2	7.4	1.1
25	Spleen Qi def. and dampness, liver blood def.	7.6	1.8	5	1.6