Diabetic Retinopathy

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

视物模糊,舌质暗红,舌底瘀

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Vision easily becomes blurred, with unclear sight affecting visual discrimination.
  • The tongue appears dark and reddish, lacking brightness and moisture.
  • Bluish-purple stasis marks or petechiae can be seen under the tongue, dark in color.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

活血化瘀,行气通络

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Helps smooth blood flow, resolves blockage and stasis, and reduces stabbing pain, fixed pain, and swelling.
  • Promotes smooth circulation throughout the body, relieves distension, numbness, and coldness, and increases flexibility of movement.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

视力下降或视觉异常、眼底瘀血征象、神疲乏力、咽干、口干

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Vision is unclear, with decreased visual acuity or visual abnormalities.
  • Fundus examination may reveal signs of blood stasis, such as stagnant red or hemorrhagic changes.
  • Mental fatigue and lack of energy, easily fatigued.
  • The throat feels dry, often with a persistent desire to drink water.
  • The mouth feels dry, often wanting to moisten it with water.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

益气养阴,活血化瘀

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Replenishes physical strength and energy, making one feel more vigorous and less prone to fatigue.
  • Increases body fluids and moisture, relieving dryness of the mouth, throat, and skin.
  • Promotes smoother blood circulation and resolves stagnation, reducing stabbing pain, fixed pain, ecchymosis, and numbness.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

口干口苦,眼底出血,舌红少津,苔薄白干或少苔,脉虚细数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The mouth feels dry with a desire to drink, and the mouth frequently tastes bitter and unclean.
  • Fundus shows signs of hemorrhage, with stagnant redness or bleeding spots visible on the retina.
  • The tongue appears red, with decreased fluids making it look dry.
  • The tongue coating is thin, white, and relatively dry, or almost absent.
  • The pulse tends to be weak, thin, and somewhat rapid, often over 90 beats per minute at rest.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

养阴清热化瘀

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Increases body fluids and moisture, relieving dryness of the mouth, throat, and skin.
  • Reduces internal heat and fire, alleviating discomforts such as irritability, dry mouth, and feverish sensations.
  • Promotes smoother blood flow and clears stasis, reducing stabbing pain, fixed pain, and bruising.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

目涩畏光,视物模糊,迎风流泪,舌红少苔,脉细数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The mouth feels dry with a desire to drink, and the mouth frequently tastes bitter and unclean.
  • Fundus shows signs of hemorrhage, with stagnant redness or bleeding spots visible on the retina.
  • The tongue appears red, with decreased fluids making it look dry.
  • The tongue coating is thin, white, and relatively dry, or almost absent.
  • The pulse tends to be weak, thin, and somewhat rapid, often over 90 beats per minute at rest.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

滋肾,养肝,明目

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Enhances the body’s foundational drive and endurance, promoting more stable sleep and reducing fatigue.
  • Supports smoother metabolic function and more stable emotions, making the body more flexible and energetic.
  • Makes the eyes feel more comfortable and clear, relieving dryness, fatigue, and blurred vision.

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