Outline of ophthalmology diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine

Ophthalmology is a method to diagnose and judge eye diseases from the overall concept. Diagnosis and judgment are two important links in the diagnosis of eye diseases by integrating theory with practice. As "Reviewing Yao Xin, Abandoning Evil and Righteousness" said: "If a husband has various symptoms, then the symptoms are external. If you get sick, you should check the visible parts, then know what is dirty, what is fu-organs, and what is suffering from a certain collateral vein, and then treat the symptoms. First of all, we should comprehensively use the four methods of looking, listening, asking and cutting to collect the illness extensively. Then, according to the basic theory of Chinese medicine, the symptoms and signs of patients are analyzed and summarized, from the outside to the inside, from the local to the whole, eliminating the false and retaining the true, finding out the internal relationship, identifying the etiology, location and pathological nature of eye diseases, grasping the essence and main contradictions of diseases, and then making a correct diagnosis and providing reliable basis for treatment. To diagnose eye diseases, we should not only use the general laws of traditional Chinese medicine to diagnose diseases, but also combine the special conditions of ophthalmology. Especially in the contemporary era, with the introduction of modern scientific inspection equipment and technology, the diagnosis and syndrome differentiation of traditional Chinese ophthalmology has been deepened and developed on the basis of traditional methods, and its professional characteristics are more obvious. This chapter mainly introduces the common methods of diagnosis and syndrome differentiation in ophthalmology.