How Acupuncture Treats Myopia

Acupuncture treatment for myopia is mainly to use the eye-ming point, Chengsui point, Fengchi point, Guangming point, and add or subtract according to the identification of evidence. Acupuncture treatment for myopia is to regulate qi and blood circulation, nourish the liver and brighten the eyes as the main method, mainly selecting the local acupoints as well as the points of the foot solar meridian and the foot Shaoyang meridian. The main acupoints used in the treatment of myopia are eye-ming acupoints and chengjing acupoints, which are used to dredge the meridian qi of the eyes, wind pool acupoints are used to connect with the eye channels, and Guangming acupoints are used to dredge and regulate the eye channels and nourish the liver and brighten the eyes. The acupuncture method for the main points is the flat tonic and flat diarrhea method. For myopia caused by deficiency of the heart and spleen (weakness of the heart and spleen organs), the heart point, spleen point, and foot-sanli point are used, and for myopia caused by insufficiency of the liver and kidney (weakness of the liver and kidney organs), the liver point, kidney point, taixi point, and taichong point are added. If the manifestation of myopia occurs, its treatment should be consulted with the clinician and acupuncture should be performed by the clinician.