Retinal Artery Occlusion

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

外眼端好，骤然失明，后极部视网膜广泛性灰白色水肿、混浊。黄斑区呈樱桃红点。兼见情志不舒，胸胁胀满，舌红，苔薄黄，脉弦

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The eye appears normal externally.
  • Sudden loss of vision, unable to see.
  • The retina at the back of the eye shows large areas of pale swelling and appears turbid.
  • Bright red dots appear in the central area of the fundus.
  • Feeling of depression and emotional stagnation, prone to unhappiness.
  • Distention and oppressive sensation in the chest and rib-side area, feeling uncomfortable.
  • The tongue color tends to be red.
  • The tongue coating is relatively thin and yellowish.
  • The pulse is taut and wiry, like a tightened string.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

行气活血，开窍通络

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Helps smooth the flow of stagnant qi and relieves sensations of distention, tightness, and discomfort from belching.
  • Promotes smooth blood circulation and resolves stasis, reducing stabbing pain, numbness, and purplish discoloration.
  • Opens obstructed sensory channels, enhances mental clarity and limb flexibility, and reduces numbness, stiffness, and pulling pain.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

视力骤降，眼前有蚊蝇、云雾飘动。后极部视网膜广泛性灰白色水肿、混浊。兼见头痛眩晕，急躁易怒，面红目赤，舌红少苔，脉弦数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Sudden decrease in vision, things become very blurry all at once.
  • Floating dark shadows or dots in front of the eyes, like mosquitoes or moving clouds.
  • The retina at the back of the eye shows large areas of pale swelling and appears turbid.
  • Accompanied by headache and dizziness.
  • Prone to irritability and anger outbursts, emotional instability.
  • Flushed face, eyes also appear red.
  • The tongue is reddish, with a very thin or absent tongue coating.
  • The pulse is taut and somewhat rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

平肝潜阳，活血通络

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Stabilizes liver yang to prevent it from rising, alleviating dizziness, head distention, and irritability.
  • Promotes blood circulation and unblocks the meridians, relieving numbness, pain, purplish discoloration, and stiffness.
  • Improves limb mobility and sensation, making the limbs more flexible and strong.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

发病日久，视物昏朦，动脉细而色淡红或呈白色线条状，视网膜水肿，视盘色淡白；兼见短气乏力，面色萎黄，倦怠懒言，形寒肢冷，大便溏薄；舌淡有瘀斑，脉涩或沉细

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The course of illness is prolonged, with no obvious improvement over a long period.
  • Vision is gray and hazy, persistently unclear.
  • The retinal arteries become narrowed, appearing very pale reddish or like thin white lines.
  • The retina is swollen.
  • The optic nerve head appears pale and light-colored.
  • Shortness of breath, easily becomes fatigued.
  • Sallow complexion without a healthy color.
  • Fatigued and listless, reluctant to speak.
  • Aversion to cold, hands and feet feel cold.
  • Loose stools, poorly formed.
  • The tongue color is pale, with visible dark purple spots on the surface.
  • The pulse is not smooth, or feels thin and weak when pressed deeply.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

补气活血，化瘀通脉

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Boosts physical strength and endurance, relieves shortness of breath, fatigue, and tiredness.
  • Promotes smoother blood circulation, reduces stabbing and distending pain and purplish limbs.
  • Resolves blood stasis to gradually dissipate stagnation, reducing indurations and tenderness.
  • Unblocks blood vessels to ensure smooth circulation, improving numbness, coldness in hands and feet, and poor circulation.

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