LI Jiangwei,YAO Xiaolie,DENG Jie,et al.PENG Qinghua's Clinical Experience in Treating Dry Eye by the Therapeutic Method of “Maintaining with the Sweet and Restoring the Body Fluids”[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2024,65(01):31-34.
LI Jiangwei,YAO Xiaolie,DENG Jie,et al.PENG Qinghua's Clinical Experience in Treating Dry Eye by the Therapeutic Method of “Maintaining with the Sweet and Restoring the Body Fluids”[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2024,65(01):31-34.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2024.01.006.
PENG Qinghua's Clinical Experience in Treating Dry Eye by the Therapeutic Method of “Maintaining with the Sweet and Restoring the Body Fluids”
This paper summarized PENG Qinghua's clinical experience in treating dry eye by applying therapeutic method of maintaining with sweet medicinals and restoring the body fluids. It is believed that the spleen earth insufficiency and fluids damage transforming into dryness are the main pathogenesis of the disease, and the basic therapeutic principle is maintaining with the sweet and restoring the body fluids by mainly using sweet medicines. It is advocated to use mild-sweet herbs, such as Baibiandou (
Lablab purpureus subsp. purpureus
), Fuling (
Smilax glabra Roxb.
), and Yiyiren (
Coix lacryma
-
jobi L.
), to transport spleen earth, so that
qi
is restored and body fluids are recovered; moderate-sweet herbs, such as Dangshen (
Codonopsis pilosula [Franch.] Nannf.
), Taizishen (
Pseudostellaria heterophylla [Miq.] Pax
), Shanyao (
Dioscorea oppositifolia L.
) and Zhigancao (
Glycyrrhiza glabra L.
) are suggested to cultivate earth and generate metal, so as to move
qi
and circulate fluid; sweet-cool herbs, such as Nanshashen (
Adenophora triphylla [Thunb.] A.DC.
), Beishashen (
Glehnia littoralis [A.Gray] F.Schmidt ex Miq.
), Yuzhu (
Polygonatum odoratum [Mill.] Druce
), Tianhuafen (
Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim.
) are suggested to nourish yin and increase body fluids, so as to promote fluid production to moisten dryness. In this way, when the source of fluid is restored and the fluid is circulated, the fluid can be produced continuously, which provides new ideas for the treatment of dry eyes with traditional Chinese medicine.
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