TCM acupuncture treatment of myopia

Method 1: traditional Chinese medicine

Advantages: TCM treatment of myopia is mainly based on the general condition of the overall diagnosis and treatment using traditional Chinese medicine, that in the visual organs, especially liver and kidney has an important role in the regulation. The study found that the drug's efficacy and severity of myopia is closely related to the degree of myopia lighter, higher clinical cure rate and markedly effective.

Disadvantages: Most of the herbs on pseudo myopia obvious, but effective prescription for myopia less true, this needs further study and improvement.

Method 2: acupuncture

Advantages: Acupuncture is an effective method of myopia control one has been widely used. Dharmas in acupuncture in order to plum-blossom needle and ear pressure beans is simple, easy to use, and early treatment of clinical systems using more traditional acupuncture points on the thorn, if the report points out that the shade of acupuncture in 173 eyes , the total efficiency up to 91.9%, almost the original disease, visual acuity improved in varying degrees of vision. At the time, it also found that from the beginning to the acupuncture needle back to this point between the 30-minute process, the vision that there are different degrees of improvement, indicating the efficacy of acupuncture on myopia quick and precise.

Disadvantages: on existing experience, the acupuncture treatment of juvenile myopia, short-term effect is the exact, but the long-term effects are still not satisfied, and the mechanism remains to be further deepened. The problem is long-term effect is not ideal, more than a recurrence. Myopia, pseudo myopia prevention and treatment has some effect, but certainly true efficacy of myopia is not exact.

Method 3: Auricular Therapy

Advantages: prevention and treatment of myopia with the ear is widely used in China in recent years, effective therapies. Many different types of ear acupuncture therapy for the prevention and treatment of myopia are: ear acupuncture, ear buried needles, auricular acupressure, ear massage 4 species. With good effect, simple, easy to grasp, non-toxic side effects, etc., especially for schools, families, primary hospital control children, students of myopia, by the community and the general health workers welcome. Therefore, understanding the mechanism of the treatment, control their operating methods and precautions have important practical significance and practical value of the statistics show that reported nearly 5,000 patients, treatment from 12 days to six months, the efficacy reached 67.2% to 100% The total effective rate, cure rate was 10% and 30%.

Disadvantages: long-term efficacy is not clear.

Method 4: acupuncture treatment

Advantages: the ability to relieve muscle spasm, and promote blood circulation, reduce the ball away, so for most young people have a therapeutic effect of myopia to visual acuity improved.

Disadvantages: long-term efficacy is not clear.

Method 5: massage method

Advantages: The selected acupoints, using massage to stimulate the nerves around the eye receptors and peripheral blood vessels, improve blood circulation around the eye and nerve regulation to improve the eye tissue blood circulation and metabolism, the physiological regulation of muscle recovery and add a musk percutaneous absorption, resulting in local and systemic adjustments to restore normal physiological function of the eye. The method is simple, the exact health effects, to improve to improve vision, health effect is obvious.

Disadvantages: Only qualified massage the job right. As parents and students to master the massage, I can not correct knowledge, even if I do the massage, the massage intensity can not be achieved, it is difficult to achieve control objectives. General professional massage costs are relatively high, with the use of drugs need to take long to professional massage clinic, because the students homework is very tight, simply did not have time to do professional massage therapy. Massage should always insist on doing the job, not to consolidate the treatment, will continue to rebound, leading to naught.

Method 6: Magnetic therapy

Advantages: The traditional Chinese medicine point of view, through the stimulation of acupuncture points on the eye to produce desired therapeutic effect of myopia. These products do the blood circulation to the eye, the ciliary muscle relaxation play a certain role, but it has not been a product can be widely accepted and recognized.

Disadvantages: This method is only a temporary stimulus, not a fundamental solution to produce the short-sighted incentives.