Retinal Periphlebitis (Eales Disease)
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
视力突降，或眼前云雾飘动，玻璃体积血；心烦失眠，口舌生疮，小便短赤；舌质红，脉数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Sudden vision loss, with objects becoming very blurry all at once.
- A sensation of clouds or mist floating in front of the eyes, as if vision is covered by a layer of fog.
- Bleeding into the vitreous humor, making the fundus appear blood-red.
- Irritability and restlessness, with difficulty falling asleep at night.
- Ulcers in the mouth and on the tongue, causing pain when eating or speaking.
- Scanty urine that is reddish and dark in color.
- The tongue appears red, bright red and shiny.
- The pulse is noticeably rapid, about 90 to 130 beats per minute at rest.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清心泻火，凉血止血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear heart fire to help relieve irritability, heat in the mouth and tongue, and insomnia with vivid dreaming.
- Cool the blood and stop bleeding to help reduce nosebleeds, gum bleeding, and skin red spots.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
病情迁延，玻璃体积血反复发作；头晕耳鸣，腰膝酸软，潮热颧红，五心烦热，口干唇燥；舌质红，苔薄黄，脉细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The condition persists for a long time with repeated relapses and no improvement.
- Recurrent bleeding into the vitreous humor, with vision obscured by blood shadows.
- Dizziness and vertigo accompanied by persistent tinnitus.
- Soreness and weakness in the lower back and knees, worsening after activity.
- Paroxysmal heat rising, with redness and warmth over the cheekbones.
- Heat and irritability in the palms, soles, and chest, making it hard to calm down.
- Pronounced dry mouth, with dry, peeling lips.
- The tongue appears reddish.
- Thin, slightly yellow tongue coating.
- The pulse is thin and somewhat rapid, about 90 to 130 beats per minute at rest.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋阴降火，凉血化瘀
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Replenish fluids and internal nourishment to subdue internal fire, helping relieve dry mouth, dry throat, and irritability with heat sensations.
- Cool the blood and resolve stasis to help reduce subcutaneous bruising, stabbing and distending pain, and residual ecchymosis after bleeding.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
视力急剧下降，眼底视网膜出血，颜色紫暗；伴眼胀头痛，胸胁胀痛，情志抑郁，食少嗳气，或烦躁失眠；舌质红有瘀斑，苔薄白，脉弦或涩等
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Vision drops markedly all at once, making objects look even more blurry suddenly.
- Bleeding spots appear on the fundus, dark purple and dusky in color.
- Eye distension accompanied by headache and discomfort.
- Distending pain in the chest and rib sides, worsening with breathing or movement.
- Low mood and depression, with difficulty mustering energy.
- Poor appetite, with a frequent sensation of gas rising from the stomach and belching.
- Or easily agitated and irritable, with trouble falling asleep at night.
- The tongue appears reddish, with visible dark stasis spots on the surface.
- The tongue coating is relatively thin and white.
- The pulse feels tight and straight when pressed, like a taut string.
- Or the pulse is rough and hesitant, lacking smoothness with a choppy rhythm.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝解郁，化瘀止血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Smooth stagnated qi to help relieve chest and rib-side distension, emotional depression, and frequent sighing.
- Dispel blood stasis to help reduce stabbing and distending pain and subcutaneous bruising.
- Astringe and stop bleeding to promote repair, helping reduce the tendency for recurrent hemorrhages.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
视物昏朦，病程较长，出现玻璃体腔内增殖膜，眼底视网膜出血增殖病变及新生血管；畏寒肢冷，头晕目眩，面色㿠白，气短懒言，周身乏力，大便稀溏；舌质暗淡，苔薄白，脉沉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Vision is gray and hazy, remaining unclear all the time.
- The disease course is prolonged and recurrent, difficult to resolve.
- Membrane-like tissue grows within the vitreous humor.
- The fundus shows retinal hemorrhages, proliferative changes, and new fine blood vessels.
- Sensitivity to cold, with cold hands and feet.
- Dizziness and blurred vision.
- Pale complexion with little rosy color.
- Shortness of breath and a reluctance to talk much.
- Generalized fatigue and low energy.
- Loose stools that are poorly formed.
- The tongue appears dull and pale.
- Thin white tongue coating.
- The pulse is only clearly felt at a deeper level and is relatively thin.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补肾健脾，化痰软坚
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Strengthen the kidney and spleen functions to support more stable energy and digestion, and help improve physical strength and appetite.
- Transform and expel thick phlegm-turbidity to help relieve chest oppression, profuse sputum, and a heavy, sticky sensation.
- Soften and gradually dissipate nodules and masses, helping reduce local distension, pain, and tenderness.
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