Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
双眼先后或同时发病，眼胀头痛，视物模糊，眼压升高，视野缩小；性情急躁或抑郁，胸胁胀满，心烦易怒；舌质红，苔薄，脉弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Both eyes may be affected either sequentially or simultaneously, with a feeling of distension in the eye accompanied by headache.
- Vision becomes blurry and unclear.
- Intraocular pressure is elevated and measured as high.
- The visual field gradually narrows.
- Irritable and easily angered, or showing signs of depression and low mood.
- Fullness and oppression in the chest and hypochondrium, with restlessness and agitation.
- Tongue appears slightly red with a thin coating.
- The pulse is wiry (like a taut string).
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
行气疏肝
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Smooth the flow of stagnant qi to relieve distension and pain in the chest and hypochondrium, frequent sighing, and emotional oppression.
- Ease the sensation of tightness and obstruction, reducing abdominal distension, belching, poor appetite, and discomfort from fullness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
眼压升高，头晕目胀；胸闷恶心，纳差；舌质淡或红，苔腻，脉滑或滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Intraocular pressure is elevated, with dizziness and a feeling of eye distension and discomfort.
- Chest tightness, nausea, and poor appetite.
- Tongue appears pale or slightly red.
- Greasy tongue coating (thick and sticky, the tongue surface looks unclean).
- The pulse is slippery, or slippery and slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
利湿化痰，和胃降逆
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Promote urination and drain dampness while resolving sticky phlegm, alleviating chest oppression, cough, and discomfort from profuse, thick, difficult-to-expectorate phlegm.
- Harmonize the spleen and stomach to descend qi, relieving nausea, vomiting, belching, acid reflux, stomach bloating, and poor appetite.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
病久瞳神渐散，视物不清，视物缩窄，目珠胀硬，视盘苍白。可伴有精神倦怠，头晕耳鸣，腰膝酸软，舌淡苔薄，脉沉细无力；或面色㿠白，手足不温，少气乏力，舌质淡，苔白，脉沉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- As the condition persists, the pupils gradually dilate.
- Vision is unclear, and the visual field progressively narrows.
- The eye feels distended and firmer, more noticeable on pressure.
- The optic disc appears pale or whitish (visible on examination).
- May be accompanied by fatigue, dizziness, tinnitus, and soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees.
- Tongue appears pale with a thin coating.
- The pulse is deep, thin, and forceless.
- Or the complexion appears pale and lusterless, with cold hands and feet, shortness of breath, and fatigue.
- Tongue appears pale with a white coating.
- The pulse is deep and thin.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补益肝肾
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Nourish and replenish internal essence and energy, relieving soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, and fatigue.
- Strengthen the bones and sinews and boost vitality, reducing night sweats, sensitivity to cold, and declining physical strength.
- Improve blurry vision, dry eyes, and unstable sleep, promoting a calmer emotional and physical state.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
眼压升高，头眩头痛眼胀；胸痛手麻，失眠健忘；舌质紫暗瘀斑，舌下血脉紫暗怒张，脉涩或弦细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Intraocular pressure is elevated, with dizziness, headache, and distending pain in the eye.
- Chest pain and numbness in the hands.
- Poor sleep with a tendency toward insomnia, and declining memory with forgetfulness.
- The tongue body is purplish-dark, with visible static spots or ecchymoses (signs of poor blood circulation).
- The sublingual veins are dark purple, engorged, and tortuous (indicating blood stasis obstruction).
- The pulse is choppy, or may be wiry and thin.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血化瘀，利水开窍
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Promote blood circulation and resolve stasis, alleviating distension, stabbing pain, and purple discoloration.
- Drain excess fluid to reduce swelling and eliminate dampness, making the head clearer and improving hearing and vision.
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