Eye pain

Any pain of the eye. Pain in the eye during the day is a yáng pattern; pain during the night is a yīn pattern. Pain accompanied by vexation and oppression indicates qì repletion; pain accompanied by aversion to cold indicates qì vacuity. Intermittent dull pain indicates stirring of yīn vacuity fire; pain like the pricking of a needle, that continues unabated indicates fire evil. Pain accompanied by dryness signifies wearing of the fluids or water depletion and blood vacuity. Red sore eyes with copious sticky discharge indicate wind-heat congestion. Mild redness and soreness with inhibited stool and urine indicates repletion fire blazing internally. Pain that refuses pressure and likes cold compresses indicates repletion, whereas pain that likes pressure and hot compresses indicates vacuity.