Abstract:According to traditional Chinese medicine, most of the patients in the later stage of eye diseases suffer from prolonged diseases and injure yin, and those with old and frail suffer from exhaustion, deficiency of liver and kidney, and asthenia of essence and blood. For the later stage of diseases and chronic recurrent diseases, the treatment based on traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation is often more advantageous than western medicine. As the basic theories of eye diseases of traditional Chinese medicine, the “five-wheel theory” and “liver-orifice theory” expounds the close relationship between the eye and the liver and kidney, and provides a theoretical basis for the treatment of eye diseases from the liver and kidney. Internal treatment is widely used in internal and external eye diseases of traditional Chinese medicine. As one of the internal treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine, tonifying liver and kidney is mainly used for the treatment of eye diseases caused by liver and kidney insufficiency, such as hepatic fatigue, ptosis of eyelid, senile cataract, vitreous opacity, blue blindness, after visual garment detachment surgery, blurred vision, blue wind glaucoma, retinopathypigmentosa and so on. By searching related literature, this paper briefly describes the application progress of liver and kidney supplementing in ophthalmology of traditional Chinese medicine in recent years.
张斌 李青松 干静云 桂炎香 王亚卉 许愿. 补益肝肾法在中医眼科中的应用进展[J]. 中国医药导报, 2020, 17(11): 32-35,52.
ZHANG Bin LI Qingsong GAN Jingyun GUI Yanxiang WANG Yahui XU Yuan. Application progress of tonifying liver and kidney in ophthalmology of traditional Chinese medicine. 中国医药导报, 2020, 17(11): 32-35,52.