@article{Spaskova_2018, title={ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE IN THE TREATMENT OF PRURITAS}, volume={22}, url={https://ikm.mk/ojs/index.php/kij/article/view/3678}, abstractNote={<p>Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has a history of thousands of years. It is formed by summarizing the valuable experience of understanding life, maintaining health and combating the diseases accumulated in everyday life, production and medical practice. Not only does it have systematic theories, but it also has preventive and therapeutic methods for diseases. According to traditional Chinese philosophy, people’s health depends on the state of energy called Qi, which moves through the body and is responsible for all physical and psychological, emotional, spiritual and mental states. Materials and methods. The procedure uses sterile acupuncture needles of varying length depending on the area of treatment and is applied at certain points on the channels in order to correct Qi flow and help balance the body. Results. A 65-year-old patient retired with 35 years of experience in polyurethane paints. Anamnestic data on the long history of intense itching of the detected parts of the body (palms, neck and head) that reduce the quality of life and cause chronic insomnia and irritability. The inspection reveals hyperemic papules, in places, numular erythema plaques, lightly elevated, oedematous, which in places interfere and create an aspect of plates with irregular borders. Exorcisms and bark are visible due to the presence of itching. The patient is provided with classical acupuncture for a period of two months in the period from April / 2016 to June / 2016. With the frequency of treatment twice a week, throughout the body, with emphasis on certain points along the median length, whose main goal is to strengthen and abolish the patient’s immunity and to circumvent the changes in the face and other parts of the body in order to limit and deny the Spread of Changes. The duration of a treatment range is between 25-30 min. Conclusion. At the very beginning, after the second treatment, the patient improved general health, bypassing the shoulder to 50%, and after the fifth treatment, the itch completely disappeared. The application of acupuncture as part of traditional Chinese medicine can give good results in improving the health condition and there is no contraindication in its application for pruritus</p>}, number={5}, journal={KNOWLEDGE - International Journal }, author={Spaskova, Vaska}, year={2018}, month={Mar.}, pages={1145–1146} }