干眼症中医临床研究概述

Overview of the clinical journal of TCM in xerophthalmia

干眼症为目珠干燥之症。中医学认为其为五脏正常功能受"燥"所伤,肺、肝、肾津伤液耗,不能发挥其生理功能所致。病机以阴虚为本,尤以肝肾阴虚为主。中医药治疗干眼症疗效显著,无论是辨证论治还是针对特定证候的专方、验方,建立在经络学说基础上的针灸治疗以及中药熏蒸、按摩等方法。但中医药治疗干眼症的临床研究还存在缺乏统一的辨证论治标准、科学的疗效评定标准以及科研设计不够严谨等不足。以后应在在进行临床研究的同时,深入研究本病的发病机制、其病理生理状况、预防以及治疗。并将动物实验结果转化为临床可用的知识,为干眼症治疗拓展更为广阔的空间。

Xerophthalmia is the disease of dry eyeball. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that if normal function of the five Zang is hurt by dryness, body fluid of lung, liver and kidney will be consumed and be injured , unable to play its physiological functions, then will result to xerophthalmia. Its pathogenesis is Yin-deficiency, especially Yin-deficiency of liver and kidney. There is a significant effect to treat xerophthalmia by traditional Chinese medicine, either syndrome differentiation and treatment, or using specific or experience prescription for specific syndromes, either acupuncture treatment based in the meridian theory or using traditional Chinese medicine fumigation method or massage. But there is a lack of unified standards of syndrome differentiation and treatment, scientific evaluation of clinical standards. Research design is not stringent enough. In the later days,while clinical studies, an in-depth study on the pathogenesis of this disease, its pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment is needed. And tranform animal experimental results to available knowledge for clinical, expand a wider space for the treatment of xerophthalmia.