Styes/blepharitis etiology, herbals

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Chinese Traditional Medicine , " Rob " <emeerob> wrote:

> Does anyone have any takes on this from a TCM perspective?

> have tried drops and ointments from doctors(antibiotics/cortisone)

> which alleviates symtoms temporarily,but then it re occurs .

> Mainly on left hand eyelids.

> Any specific herbs? Or well proven formulas?

> Kind regards from Rob

 

from my chinese traditional chinese ophtalmology textbooks:

1. accumulated heat in spleen/stomach, then contracting a wind evil,

wind and heat complicate each other and stagnate in the lid, damage

the jin-fluids and transform into dryness.

Treatment: expel wind, stop itching, cool blood, clear heat

modified yin-qiao-san

 

2. accumulated damp-heat in spleen/stomach, then contracting an outer

wind evil, then wind, dampness, heat

complicate each other and attack upwards to the lid.

Treatment: expel wind, clear heat, drain dampness

modified chu-shi-tang

 

3. wind-heat in the exterior, heart-fire flares in the interior, wind

and heat float upwards and scorch/hurt the lid.

Treatment: clear hear, drain fire

dao-chi-san combined with huang-lian-jie-du-tang

 

A herbal formula is composed that addresses the inner and outer

condition at the same time,

as it is always an outer wind that adds to an existing inner process.

 

Dampheat in sp/st, sp/st heat and heart fire are conditions

I often see in my practice, typical 'too-much-money' diseases,

too much meat, sweets, fats, proteins, alcohol, cigarettes, mass

media-heat, overwork, stress,

too few vegetables, plant-proteins, rest.

Antibiotics damage the TCM sp/st, cortisone damages the TCM Ki./Li.-

yin and leads to very stubborn, complicated phlegm-damp accumulations.