Tympanic membrane penetration

The tympanic membrane is a gate of the middle ear which separates the external and middle ear and responsibles to protect cavity of the middle ear. Once it is penetrated due to otitis media (inflammation of middle ear) or external injury, it can resulted in two main complications: protective function is impaired causing external microbes infections, drainage of dirts, invasion of foreign substances where all these cause suppurative infection; penetration of tympanic membrane diminishes the vibration surface area and causes decreased of hearing function. The causative factors are otitis media, external injury and etc.[Clinical treatment result] There were 1560 cases adopted traditional chinese medicine (TCM), among them were 1023 cases of otitis media patients; 1550 cases recoverd completely and 10 cases turned out better.