What Are the Common Causes of Blindness?

Blindness, Chinese medicine is called blindness or blindness, proof of name, see "Suwen · Angry Tongtianlun". Commonly known as blindness, which means that nothing can be seen. "Difficulties · Twenty Difficulties": "Those who are out of yin are blind." There are many causes and there are innate and acquired. All serious internal and external eye diseases and trauma can cause blindness. All symptoms that have a tendency to cause blindness should be actively treated.

Basic Information

Causes of blindness

Mostly caused by cataract diseases and other diseases of the eye, but also caused by brain disease. Qi and blood stasis, phlegm and heat palpitations, liver fire hyperactivity, liver and kidney yin and blood deficiency are common pathogenesis.

Clinical manifestations of blindness

1. Severe vision loss and even blindness are the main symptoms.

2. Combined with eye examination, different manifestations of different eye diseases:

(1) Those who are old and have turbid eyes, slowly decrease their vision, and become blind, are more common in round cataracts.

(2) Blindness is more common in fundus lesions. Common diseases include obstructive blindness, blindfold blindness, blindness of collateral damage, blindness due to fire depression, and detachment of visual clothing. The blindness of the blood-puffered pupil can not see into the eye.

(3) Blindness seen in the yellow liquid rushing, spiral snail tip-up, crab eye disease, positive leakage and other diseases, and there are corresponding ophthalmic characteristic pathological changes.

(4) The black eyes produce the diaphragm, which covers the pupils and causes blindness. Examination of the diaphragm can be seen. The common diseases include white membrane invasion, moon invasion, and calyx white depression. Condensate tincture, black tincture like beads, mixed-eye obstacles, palpitations and so on.

(5) The pupils are dilated and turbid with pale yellow, pale green, and dark, and those with decreased vision are mostly yellow wind cataract, green wind cataract, and black wind cataract.

(6) Drooping erythrocytes, blood-stained eyes, wind wheel red beans, tight pupils, etc., can also affect vision, and have corresponding ophthalmic characteristics and pathological signs.

3. Different medical histories and conditions also have different manifestations:

(1) Those who have symptoms such as thin body, large belly, diarrhea, and night blindness are considered to have accumulated.

(2) Blindness caused by real eye damage, shock cataracts, fetal cataracts, etc., history of trauma, or early childhood illness.

(3) Blind and mentally impaired patients are mostly brain diseases such as qi. Head blindness, ischemia and stroke are mostly blind.

(4) There is no obvious change in the appearance of the eyes such as blue blindness, dim vision, high wind cataract and other diseases.

Blind Dialectical Treatment

Qi stagnation and blood stasis

Vision is severely reduced or even blind, accompanied by severe headache, eyeball pain such as acupuncture, even at night, purple spots on the tongue, varicose veins under the tongue, pulses sinking or astringent. Rule: Xingqi Hualuo Tongluo. Master: Tongqiao Huoxue Decoction or Xuefu Zhuyu Decoction.

2. Liver Fire

Severe vision loss or even blindness, chest pain, dizziness, irritability, red face, red eyes, bitter throat, red tongue, yellow fur, and strong pulse strings. Rule: Qinggan Xiehuo. Main formula: Huagan Jian addition and subtraction.

3. Wind phlegm obstruction

Severe vision loss or even blindness, dizziness, chest tightness, nausea and vomiting, excessive sputum, white or greasy tongue, slippery pulses. Rule: Qufeng Huatan Tongluo. The main party: phlegm-guided tang plus silkworm, earth dragon, calamus, gastrodia, and vine.

4. Phlegm heat accumulation

Severe vision loss or even blindness, dizziness, chest tightness, yellowish sputum, red, fat, yellow greasy fur, and slippery pulses. Rule: clearing heat and phlegm. Master: Huanglian Wendan Decoction.

5. Qi deficiency and blood stasis

Vision is severely reduced or even blind, the condition is prolonged, the color of blood spots in the retina is dull, the tongue has bruising, the tongue is fat, the fur is thin, and the pulse is fine. Rule: Yiqi Huoxue Huayu. The main party: Buyang Huanwu decoction.

6. Liver and kidney yin deficiency

Severe vision loss or even blindness, dry eyes, dizziness, tinnitus, sore waist and knees, five upsets and fever, less tongue coating, and fine pulse strings. Rule: nourish liver and kidney. The main party: Dading Fengzhu plus or minus.

Other Therapies for Blindness

Chinese patent medicine

Mingmu Dihuang Wan, Dendrobium Yeguang Wan, etc.

2. Common eyesight Chinese medicine

Dense Mongolian flowers, Equisetum, Senecio, wild chrysanthemum, glutinous grass, barnyard grass, night-light sand, moon-moon sand, grass cassia, etc., can be selected on the basis of disease identification.

3. Acupuncture

Acupoints such as Jingming, behind the ball, Hitomi, bearing, bamboo, sun, wind pool, Hegu, Neiguan, Waiguan, Taichong, Qifeng, Zuguangming, Mingmen, Shenshu and other points are often selected.