FULMINANT RED EYE BY QUICK PUNCTURE ON TENDER POINT OF EARS COMBINED WITH BLOOD LETTING THERAPY

Deng Shifil

(Dianjiang County People's Hospital, Sichuan)

Fulminant red eye, or "tianxing-chiyan", is synonymous with acute catarrhal conjunctivitis and epidemic hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, and is characterized by sudden onset and high infectivity through contagion. Rapid and widespread prevalence in the multitude after its occurrence and pain of the sufferers make the people very agonizing.

The author treated the patients with this malady employing quick puncture on tender point of ears combined with blood letting therapy during the epidemics at Dianjiang County and the neighbouring counties. Points of "Tayang" and "Zanzhu" on both sides were punctured for blood letting in order to remove stasis, purge heat and eliminate toxication. In addition, 0.25% chloromycetin solution as eye drops was applied topically 3-4 times a day simultaneously. Sixty patients were treated and observed with the curative rate of 100%.

Thirty patients with the same disease as the control group were set up at random and treated by herb drugs which act as agents for clearing away heat and toxic material, cooling the blood and dissipating blood stasis expelling wind and improving eyesight respectively, about 80% rate of cure was obtained. The difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P<0.01).

Almost all of the patients treated by quick puncture with blood letting experienced rapid relief of foreign body sensation, itching and pain of the eyes involved, headache and general malaise right after quick puncture. The course of treatment required was between 3-7 days, with the average of 5'/2 days, about half-long duration of spontaneous recovery. While the symptoms began to eliminate approximately 8-10 hours after administration of herb drugs and the healing processes lasted for 5-7 days with the average of about 6 days. However, the remain ineffective cases were cured, following quick puncture with blood letting procedures afterwards. In a word, quick puncture combined with blood letting therapy has been proved to be effective, reliable and easy to operate with no side-effect.

Basing on the pathogenesis of the fulminant red eye, i.e., ocular affection by the interaction of exogenous seasonal evil factors and intense evil heat with blood stasis due to endogenous evil heat in the blood, 60 persons who were not afflicted with the disease in the epidemic area were manipulated by preventive quick puncture with blood letting upon bilateral earlobes in order to purge the interior-heat to which the seasonal and heat evils may become not attached. The satisfactory result was shown by the fact that none of them had suffered from any symptom of red eye.