Professor Peng Qinghua's experience in treating perimenopausal dry eye disease
Perimenopausal women are prone to dry eye disease,which is closely related to the imbalance of sex hor-mones.The incidence of perimenopausal dry eye disease is increasing year by year,and its clinical manifestations are dry eyes,foreign body sensation,burning sensation,easy fatigue,etc.,which seriously affects the quality of life of patients.Professor Peng Qinghua believes that perimenopausal dry eye disease is based on kidney deficiency,and the imbalance be-tween kidney-Yin and kidney-Yang is the key pathogenesis.Its syndrome types include insufficiency of kidney-Yin causing failure of water to nourish wood,deficiency and decline of kidney-Yang causing loss of warming function of spleen,and stagnated heat of liver meridian causing stagnation of Qi activity.In clinical practice,the treatment should adopt the meth-ods of tonifying the liver and kidney to achieve treating disease in the upper part by managing the lower,warming Yang and nourishing Qi to achieve reinforcing Yang from Yin,and clearing the liver and relieving depression to achieve regulating the body and mind,combined with acupuncture at the periocular acupoints of Cuanzhu,Jingming and Chengqi,Sanyinjiao,Yanglao and Hegu,etc.,and the fumigator treatment with Mimenghua Granules,and the clinical effect is remarkable.
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