针刺治疗干眼症的研究进展

Research progress of acupuncture for treating dry eye

干眼症,中医称之为"白涩病",目前干眼症的西医治疗主要是药物干预,治疗方式单一。中医方面从单纯针刺、针刺配合药物、针刺配合艾灸、针刺配合中药口服等治疗,临床疗效显著。针刺治疗干眼症方法众多,对中医药加以肯定的同时,还面临诊断标准和疗效标准不统一、长期临床疗效不明确、实验研究缺乏、对照组设置不合理、临床试验样本量小等问题。

Dry eye,which named "xerosis conjunctivitis" in Chinese medicine.The current Western medicine treatment for dry eye is mainly by drugs.Traditional Chinese medicine has a significant clinical effect for this disease by several TCM ways,such as acupuncture,or acupuncture combined with drugs,moxibustion,and oral administration of TCM.Meanwhile,it also faces problems such as inconsistent diagnostic criteria and standard evaluation,unclear long-term clinical efficacy,lack of experimental research,unreasonable control group setting,and relatively small sample of clinical trials.