Traditional Chinese therapy initiates oral feeding in a stroked woman after three years of nasogastric tube feeding

Abstract

Banxia Houpu Tang, a traditional Chinese medicine, helped in initiating oral feeding in a stroke patient, after three years of nasogastric tube feeding. This Chinese medicine has potential in eliminating the need for nasogastric feeding and for physical restraints in geriatric individuals after a stroke.

Keywords

• Aspiration pneumonia
• Banxia Houpu Tang
• nasogastric tube
• physical restraints
• traditional Chinese medicine