Primary Angle-Closure Glaucoma

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

发病急剧，头痛如劈，眼珠胀痛欲脱，连及目眶，视力骤降，甚至失明，抱轮红赤，白睛混赤水肿，黑睛雾状混浊，瞳神散大，瞳色淡绿，眼珠变硬；全身可伴恶心呕吐，恶寒发热，溲赤便结；舌质红，苔黄，脉弦数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Sudden onset with severe headache resembling a splitting pain.
  • The eyeball feels distended and painful as if protruding, and the pain may radiate to the orbit.
  • Sudden significant vision loss, which may lead to blindness in severe cases.
  • Circumcorneal injection (ciliary flush) with redness around the cornea.
  • The white of the eye is congested, cloudy, and edematous.
  • The cornea appears cloudy and hazy, lacking clarity.
  • The pupil is dilated and appears pale with a greenish tint.
  • The eyeball feels hard to touch, with increased firmness and discomfort upon pressure.
  • May be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, aversion to cold, and fever.
  • Urine is yellow and reddish, with dry, difficult bowel movements.
  • The tongue appears red with a yellow coating.
  • The pulse is wiry, tight, and rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清热泻火，凉肝息风

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Clear internal heat-fire to relieve symptoms such as fever, sore throat, thirst, irritability, flushed face, and restlessness.
  • Subdue liver fire and calm internal wind to alleviate red eyes, head distension, dizziness, spasms, and tremor of the hands and feet.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

起病急骤，眼部症状与肝胆火炽相同；常伴身热面赤，动辄眩晕，恶心呕吐，溲赤便结；舌质红，苔黄腻，脉弦滑数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Sudden onset with rapid and severe symptoms.
  • Ocular manifestations are similar to ‘Liver-Gallbladder Fire Blazing’: red, swollen, hot, and painful eyes, photophobia, tearing, and blurred vision.
  • Feverish body with a flushed red face.
  • Frequent dizziness and vertigo.
  • Accompanied by nausea, retching, or vomiting.
  • Urine is yellow and reddish.
  • Dry and difficult bowel movements.
  • The tongue appears red.
  • The tongue coating is yellow and greasy.
  • The pulse is wiry, slippery, and rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

降火逐痰，平肝息风

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Clear internal fire to relieve symptoms such as dry mouth, sore throat, irritability, and facial heat.
  • Resolve sticky phlegm to facilitate expectoration and reduce cough and chest oppression.
  • Calm liver yang and internal wind to relieve dizziness, tremor, and shaking of the hands and feet.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

患侧头痛，目赤胀痛，瞳神散大，视力下降，眼珠胀硬；伴见情志不舒，胸闷嗳气，食少纳呆，呕吐泛恶，口苦；舌质红，苔薄，脉弦数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Headache on the affected side (ipsilateral to the affected eye) is prominent.
  • The eye is red, swollen, and painful.
  • Pupil dilation.
  • Decreased vision.
  • The eyeball is distended and hard, with increased discomfort upon pressure.
  • Emotional depression and unease.
  • Chest oppression, frequent belching, and acid reflux.
  • Poor appetite with no taste for food.
  • Nausea and possible vomiting.
  • Bitter taste in the mouth.
  • The tongue appears red with a thin coating.
  • The pulse is wiry and rapid (taut like a string and fast).

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清热疏肝，降逆和胃

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Clear internal heat and soothe liver qi to relieve distension and pain in the chest and hypochondrium, bitter taste, and irritability.
  • Direct rebellious qi downward and harmonize stomach qi to relieve nausea, vomiting, belching, acid reflux, gastric distension, and reduced appetite.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

头目胀痛，瞳神散大，视物昏朦，眼珠硬痛；心烦失眠，眩晕耳鸣，口干咽燥；舌质红，少苔，或舌绛少津，脉弦细数或细数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The head and eyes feel distended and painful, as if being pressed.
  • Pupil dilation.
  • Cloudy and blurred vision.
  • The eyeball is hard and painful, with increased discomfort on palpation.
  • Irritability and poor sleep with tendency to insomnia.
  • Dizziness with tinnitus.
  • Dry mouth and throat.
  • The tongue appears red with scanty coating, or deep red/crimson with dry appearance due to insufficient fluids.
  • The pulse is wiry, thin, and rapid, or simply thin and rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

滋阴降火，平肝息风

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Nourish yin and generate fluids to suppress internal heat, relieving dry mouth and throat, tidal fever, night sweats, irritability, and heat sensations.
  • Calm liver yang and internal wind to alleviate dizziness, spasms, tremor of hands and feet, red eyes, and head distension.

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