EYE DISEASES ------------

VARIOUS TYPES OF CONJUCTIVITIS ------------------------------

Some of the various types of conjunctivitis are described in the classic includi ng purulent and epidemic kerato-conjunctivitis. In purulent conjunctivitis, a sti cky and thick slime (pus) and tears discharge from the eyes unceasingly. This is due to heart fire over controlling the lungs causing lung depletion. One should take the pills with steamed ai (ai ye, bo he, dang gui, di gu pi, wa can sha, nuo mi, qin jiao, huang bai, jie geng, huang qi) to eliminate the evil heat from the lung and large intestine conduits and then supplement with the powder with e-jia o (e jiao, shu nian zi, gan cao, nuo mi, ma dou ling, kuan dong hua, zi wan). In epidemic kerato-conjunctivitis or red eye poisonous qi flows between heaven and ea rth and infects entire families at a time. The symptoms of swelling, pain, sandy roughness and difficulty opening the eye should all resolve within five days as it caused by the qi of one of five days period according to Chinese meteorologi cal astrology. This is due to the influence of poisonous vapors that move around in certain times of the year and are transmitted to people. The treatment is to release the poison, clear heat and cool the blood with the powder to cleanse the liver (da huang, zhi zi, fang feng, bo he, chuan xiong, dang gui, qiang huo, gan cao) and the powder to cleanse the heart.