Abdominal Acupuncture for Eye Healing: The Sacred
Turtle and Ba Gua Map
By Shengyan (Grace) Tan
Our ideas about western medicine
have shifted in recent decades, while the public is asking more from health
care providers. The old method of referring each symptom to a particular
specialist isolated from the whole person has been replaced slowly with
alternative forms of health care like acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.
In the perspective of TCM, we are
looking at the whole person, his or her dietary preferences, life style,
exercise, and connections to different types of relationships, as well as
particular symptoms and signs which brought them in for treatment in the first
place.
We believe our vision does not
happen in a vacuum. Rather it has its roots in our total being. The body does
not work as a series of parts in isolation, but as a whole, dynamically
integrated with our whole system. Every cell is a nerve cell. This biological
awareness of every cell is really the foundation of vision. Each of us is
unique and literally takes in the world primarily through our vision; moreover,
the way we take in the world is, to some degree, a reflection of who we are and
which symptoms we might manifest.
Most eye problems respond to acupuncture.
In some cases this may come as a surprise. Acupuncture can be effective in
treating a wide range of conditions of eye disorders. For some conditions, such
as macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa,
Stargardt's disease and other degenerative disease, which have no treatment in
western medicine and acupuncture is the treatment of choice. For other
diseases, such as conjunctivitis, corneal ulcer, keratitis, retinal vein or
artery obstruction, optic neuritis, optic atrophy, cataract (in the early
stage) and chronic (open-angle) glaucoma, acupuncture can be beneficial as a
supplementary therapy. Acupuncture will change the patient's overall condition
so that both the symptoms and the underlying disharmony disappear. The body may
be supported sufficiently to remove all unpleasant symptoms.
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