There is no record about electric or flash ophthalmitis in ancient Chinese medical literatures. The symptoms of this disease, including redness of conjunctiva, pain in both eyes, photophobia, blurred vision etc., are due to the invasion of both eyes through the route of channels by external "Wind" and "Heat". The pathological changes are located in conjuactiva and cornea. According to the traditional Chinese ophthalmology, the conjunctiva is related to the "Lung" while cornea is related to the "Liver". Furthermore, in the "Canon of Medicine" it is pointed out that conjunctiva belong to "Yang", so that two points, Hegu and Fengchi, are selected for treatment. These two points are located on Large Intestine Channel of Hand-Yangming and Gallbladder Channel of Foot-Shaoyang respectively, both of which are exterior (Yang) channels while Lung and Liver Channels are interior (Yin) channels.
Based on the principle of acupuncture, we applied Xie (reducing) manipulation to these patients using No. 30 needle placed at the site for 15 minutes.
In our series of 210 cases the effect was all estimated after the first treatment of acupuncture. Patients are considered prominently effective cases if symptoms subsided quickly; while effective cases are considered for those patients whose symptoms were only improved. Those patients whose symptoms remained unimproved or subsided just for a while and recurred in an hour are considered noneffective. The results are reported as follows, prominently effective 38 cases occupying 18.1% of all cases; effective 168 cases occupying 80% of all cases; noneffective 4 cases occupying 1.9% of all cases.
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