Uveitis

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

发病急骤,瞳神紧小,抱轮红赤,黑睛后壁有灰色点状沉着物,神水不清,畏光,流泪,目珠坠痛,头额痛。舌红,苔薄白或微黄,脉浮数或弦数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The onset is abrupt, with symptoms appearing rapidly and intensely.
  • The pupil is markedly constricted (“contracted pupil”).
  • Circumcorneal injection with redness (“ciliary flush”).
  • Gray, dot-like deposits are visible on the posterior corneal surface (keratic precipitates).
  • The aqueous humor appears turbid (“cloudy aqueous”).
  • Photophobia and lacrimation, with marked discomfort when exposed to bright light.
  • A sensation of distension, pressure, soreness, and heaviness in the eye.
  • Frontal or forehead headache.
  • The tongue body is slightly red.
  • The tongue coating is thin white or slightly yellow.
  • The pulse is floating and rapid, or wiry and rapid (floating rapid or wiry rapid).

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

祛风清热

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Dispel factors that cause migrating discomfort and itching, and relieve symptoms such as aversion to wind, headache, and body aches.
  • Clear internal heat and alleviate discomfort such as fever, sore throat, dry mouth, and irritability.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

发病或急或缓,瞳神紧小,抱轮红赤持久不退或反复发作,黑睛后壁有灰色沉着物,神水浑浊,瞳神有白膜黏着,骨节酸楚,或小便不利,或短涩灼痛。苔黄腻,脉滑数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The onset may be acute or gradual.
  • The pupil is markedly constricted (“contracted pupil”).
  • Circumcorneal injection with persistent redness, or recurrent episodes (“ciliary flush”).
  • Gray, dot-like deposits are visible on the posterior corneal surface (keratic precipitates / KPs).
  • The aqueous humor is turbid (“cloudy aqueous”).
  • White membranous adhesions are visible at the pupillary margin (posterior synechiae / fibrous adhesion).
  • Joint soreness and discomfort.
  • Difficult or scanty urination, with dysuria and a burning sensation.
  • The tongue coating is yellow and greasy.
  • The pulse is slippery and somewhat rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

祛风除湿清热

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Dispel factors that cause migrating discomfort and itching, and relieve symptoms such as aversion to wind, headache, and body aches.
  • Drain dampness and turbidity from the body, and alleviate heaviness, sticky sensations, edema, chest tightness, and a thick, greasy tongue coating.
  • Clear internal heat and relieve fever, sore throat, thirst, irritability, flushed face, and restlessness.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

病势较缓或日久不愈,眼前黑化飞舞,瞳神紧小或干缺,玻璃体混浊,眼底色素紊乱和色素脱落,赤痛时轻时重,干涩昏花,口干咽燥,口舌生疮,心烦失眠。舌红苔薄,脉细数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The condition progresses slowly, or may be prolonged and difficult to resolve.
  • Floating dark spots or threads appear in the visual field.
  • The pupil is noticeably constricted, or appears irregular and atrophic.
  • Vitreous opacity causes blurred or hazy vision.
  • Fundus examination shows pigmentary disturbance and depigmentation changes.
  • Eye redness and pain fluctuate in intensity and recur repeatedly.
  • Dry eyes and blurred vision.
  • Accompanied by dry mouth and throat, and a tendency to develop oral ulcers.
  • Irritability and poor sleep with susceptibility to insomnia.
  • The tongue body is reddish with a relatively thin coating.
  • The pulse is thin and somewhat rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

滋养肝肾,滋阴降火

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Nourish the liver and kidneys, and relieve soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, and fatigue.
  • Supplement yin fluids and subdue internal heat, alleviating dry mouth and throat, tidal fever, night sweats, and irritability with heat sensations.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

病情反复,迁延不愈,玻璃体混浊,视网膜渗出多而难消,睫状体新生血管逐渐向晶状体发展,引起晶体混浊,锯齿缘可见机化膜及广泛的前后粘连形成。视力下降,眼胀疼痛,头痛不移,舌质紫暗,苔厚腻,脉沉涩

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The condition fluctuates repeatedly and has persisted without significant improvement.
  • The vitreous humor becomes cloudy, causing vision as if through a fog.
  • Numerous retinal exudates are present and are slow to resorb.
  • Fine new blood vessels proliferate within the eye and gradually extend toward the lens region.
  • The lens becomes opacified, resulting in more severe visual blurring.
  • Membranous proliferation is visible in the peripheral eye, with extensive adhesions between anterior and posterior structures.
  • Visual acuity declines, and vision becomes more blurred than before.
  • The eye feels distended and painful.
  • Headache persists without relief.
  • The tongue body is dusky and purplish.
  • The tongue coating is relatively thick and appears greasy.
  • The pulse is deep and only clearly felt with deeper pressure; its movement is not smooth.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

活血祛瘀,化痰散结

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Promote blood circulation and resolve stasis, alleviating stabbing pain, distension, and purplish discoloration.
  • Transform viscous phlegm and facilitate its expectoration, relieving chest tightness and cough with sticky sputum.
  • Soften hardness and dissipate masses, reducing lumps and nodules and relieving tenderness.

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