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<Articles JournalTitle="Traditional and Integrative Medicine">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Traditional and Integrative Medicine</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2476-5104</Issn>
      <Volume>4</Volume>
      <Issue>3</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2019</Year>
        <Month>09</Month>
        <Day>24</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Relapsing Sudden Hearing Loss Treated and Prevented with Principles of Persian Medicine: A Case Report</title>
    <FirstPage>117</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>122</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Somayyeh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Khalilzadeh</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Persian Medicine, School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Mahdi</FirstName>
        <LastName>Alizadeh Vaghasloo</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Persian Medicine, School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2019</Year>
        <Month>09</Month>
        <Day>24</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">WHO has declared sudden hearing loss (SHL) as the third cause of disability. The mechanism of SHL remains unknown. Considering numerous complications of related medication, we decided to use non-medical therapeutic modalities derived from Persian Medicine (PM). A middle-aged female patient had a history of multiple attacks of SHL, she disliked to get injection again and preferred a traditional treatment. Therefore, she was advised to take a simple protocol in order to make rheological changes in and evacuation of the probable stagnant phlegmatic matter as it was diagnosed from the given oral history. The hearing loss recovered 60% after the first attempt and up to 100% after the second round and has not yet relapsed in the recent two and a half years of follow up despite its recurrences in the year before the trial. In this patient, by using safe user-friendly methods without any medications, we tried to increase the blood circulation to the affected organ, in order to change the consistency of the stagnated waste material so that it could be disposed from the auditory nerves and also out from the body.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://jtim.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jtim/article/view/205</web_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
