Child eye gān

Also eye gān; gān toxin eye; gān disease ascending to the eye. Dryness, aversion to light, screens on the dark of the eyes (iris and cornea), possibly causing crab’s-eye, or, in severe cases, withering of the eyeball and blindness. It is attributed to spleen-stomach depletion with essence-blood depletion depriving the eye of nourishment and liver heat attacking the upper body.

Biomedical correspondence: keratomalacia.

Medicinal therapy: Treat by fortifying the spleen and clearing heat, by killing worms and dispersing gan, and by nourishing the liver and brightening the eyes, or other methods depending on the condition of the patient. Use variations of Chubby Child Pill (肥儿丸 féi ér wán) from The Golden Mirror of Medicine (医宗金鑑 yī zōng jīn jiàn).

Acumoxatherapy: The above medicinal treatment can also be combined with spine pinching and needling of the Four Creases (四缝 sì fèng), and burning moxa at ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ), BL-18 (Liver Transport, 肝俞 gān shù), and BL-23 (Kidney Transport, 肾俞 shèn shù).

See gan.