treating hydrocephalus and stroke has not been scientifically proven
Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Sabbagh, a consultant neurosurgeon and a member of the faculty at King Abdulaziz University and Chairman of the Scientific Council for Neurosurgery at the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, appealed to parents not to resort to cauterization to treat children, denouncing the resort of some parents to their children with major diseases such as tumors and hydrocephalus and the like. However, moxibustion hinders some surgical procedures and negatively affects the patient''s health in some cases. He added during his speech, according to “previously” that the feasibility of moxibustion for treating stroke has not been scientifically proven, and there is no scientific evidence that moxibustion treats hydrocephalus, which is due to a blockage in the waterways in the brain. What leads to excess water in the brain So the head has grown.
He indicated that moxibustion pain replaces some pain. Some patients believe that they have got rid of the main pain due to moxibustion, indicating that cauterization does not cure any disease, whether tumors or strokes. He stressed that the folk therapist cannot locate the clot, and that the improvement that occurs in some stroke patients is in a kind of temporary stroke, which heals with movement and not moxibustion. He also stressed that doctors are not against folk medicine, but against practices that have no scientific explanation, and against everything that may negatively affect the health of the patient. He also warned of the mixtures promoted by some perfumers, pointing out that discovering a cure for a specific disease is not easy. It needs great capabilities from laboratories, and a large number of scientists and doctors who are united to reach a scientifically proven drug, and not anyone who tests a specific mixture and claims that it treats diseases.
He suggested that some of them mix drugs such as cortisone with some herbs, and promote their mixtures as medicines and special mixtures for treatment. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine had earlier called on patients and community members not to deal with the users of cauterization therapy, justifying this that its usefulness was not proven, and to avoid the occurrence of harm to the patient. He also indicated that cauterization is not licensed in Saudi Arabia, calling on members of society not to deal with those who claim this type of treatment in order to avoid an unpleasant occurrence - God forbid.
