Optic Atrophy
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
视物模糊，视野中央区或某象限可有大片暗影遮挡，心烦郁闷，口苦胁痛，善太息，目珠压痛或转动时牵拉痛，纳少，寐不安；舌红，苔薄白，脉弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Blurred vision, with details and edges appearing unclear.
- A large shadow blocking vision in the center or a quadrant of the visual field.
- Feeling irritable and depressed, often feeling down and unhappy.
- Bitter taste in the mouth, with pain or discomfort in the rib-side area.
- Prone to sighing, which becomes more obvious during emotional suppression.
- Pain upon pressing the eyeball, or a pulling pain when moving the eyes.
- Poor appetite, lacking interest in eating.
- Unsettled sleep, difficulty falling into a deep sleep.
- The tongue body is reddish, appearing rather bright red.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, with a light coverage.
- The pulse is taut like a bowstring, feeling tight and straight when pressed.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清肝疏热，行气活血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Reduce liver heat stagnation, relieve red eyes, bitter taste in the mouth, distending pain in the rib-side, and irritability.
- Promote the smooth flow of qi, reduce chest and abdominal distension and fullness, belching, acid reflux, and the sensation of a foreign body in the throat.
- Promote blood circulation and dissolve stasis, reduce stabbing pain, distending pain, and subcutaneous purpura.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
视力减退或丧失，头痛健忘，失眠多梦；舌质暗红或有瘀斑，苔薄白，脉细涩或结代
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Significant vision loss, which may progress to complete blindness in severe cases.
- Headaches and declining memory.
- Difficulty falling asleep, prone to excessive dreaming and restless sleep.
- The tongue body is dark red, with dark-colored stasis spots visible on the surface.
- The tongue coating is thin and white.
- The pulse is thin and choppy, not flowing smoothly, or has intermittent irregular pauses.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
行气活血，益气通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Promote the smooth flow of stagnant qi, relieve distention, oppression, and belching discomfort.
- Promote smooth blood circulation, reduce stabbing pain, distending pain, and purplish bruising.
- Supplement qi to strengthen vital energy, enhance endurance and repair capacity.
- Unblock the meridians, relieve numbness, stiffness and pulling pain, making the limbs more flexible.
- Promote the smooth flow of stagnant qi, relieve distention, oppression, and belching discomfort.
- Promote smooth blood circulation, reduce stabbing pain, distending pain, and purplish bruising.
- Supplement qi to strengthen vital energy, enhance endurance and repair capacity.
- Unblock the meridians, relieve numbness, stiffness and pulling pain, making the limbs more flexible.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
双眼昏朦，眼前有黑影遮挡，渐至失明，双眼干涩，头晕耳鸣，腰酸肢软，盗汗，烦热，遗精，大便干；舌质红，苔薄白，脉细或细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Both eyes see things as gray and hazy, overall vision is unclear.
- A dark shadow in front of the eyes obstructing vision.
- The condition gradually worsens to blindness.
- Dryness and discomfort in both eyes.
- Dizziness and tinnitus.
- Soreness and pain in the lower back, and weak limbs.
- Night sweats.
- Irritability and a sensation of heat.
- Nocturnal emissions.
- Dry, hard stools.
- The tongue body is reddish.
- The tongue coating is thin and white.
- The pulse is fine and weak, or fine and slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补益肝肾，开窍明目
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Replenish the essence and blood of the liver and kidneys, relieve soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, and fatigue.
- Promote clarity of mind and sensory functions, helping to improve mental clarity and stable responses.
- Improve nourishment and clarity of the eyes, relieve dryness, soreness, distension, and blurred vision.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
视力渐降，日久失明，面色无华，神疲乏力，懒言少语，心悸气短，纳少，唇甲色淡；舌质淡，苔薄白，脉细无力
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Gradual vision loss, with increasingly blurred vision.
- After a prolonged course, it may progress to complete blindness.
- The complexion is pale and lackluster, appearing without any color.
- Mental fatigue and sleepiness, general lack of strength.
- Speaking with little energy and reluctance, lacking interest in communication.
- Prone to palpitations, with shortness of breath and difficulty breathing comfortably.
- Markedly decreased appetite, eating little and finding food tasteless.
- The lips and nails are pale, appearing lacking in color.
- The tongue body is pale, appearing rather pallid.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, with light coverage.
- The pulse is fine and forceless, lacking strength upon pressure.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养血，宁神开窍
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Boost physical strength and blood nourishment, relieve shortness of breath, fatigue, pale complexion, dizziness, and palpitations.
- Calm the mind and improve sleep quality, reduce restlessness, forgetfulness, excessive dreaming, and palpitations.
- Enhance mental clarity, improve hearing and vision, and alleviate poor concentration and slow reactions.
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