The relationship between the eye and the San Jiao in Chinese ophthalmology

In Chinese medicine, the San Jiao is a solitary house, the main passage of vital energy and transportation of water and grain, dredge the function of waterways, so the upper input of the eye’s essence and fluid through the San Jiao. If the function of the San Jiao is not normal, the digestion, absorption and transportation of water and grain, excretion disorders or obstacles, can cause eye lesions. In addition, “the evidence of the quasi-jiao, miscellaneous diseases, the seven aperture door” also pointed out that: the eye contains God water, “by the San Jiao and the source”. Therefore, malfunction of the San Jiao can lead to the failure of Shen Shui and the occurrence of eye diseases. To this point, we understand all the Chinese medicine in the human body and the relationship between the five viscera and eyes, in fact, the relationship between the five viscera and the six viscera has its own characteristics, although the degree of closeness is not the same, but the human body is, after all, an organic whole, therefore, the clinical evidence can not be emphasized one-sidedly some of the role of the viscera, and from the actual starting point of the comprehensive observation and analysis, in order to make the correct judgment.