Children and teens

Western A group of inherited conditions in which the retina's light cells slowly fail, starting with night vision and side vision.

Classical 水 Read as an inherited shortfall of Kidney essence, the deepest reserve, with Liver blood unable to keep the eye fed.

Often with M48 eye acupuncture, Scalp acupuncture, Electro-acupuncture

Western An inherited condition, usually from the ABCA4 gene, in which waste builds up under the macula and central vision fades young.

Classical 水 Read as the same Liver and Kidney root as age-related macular change, depleted early because the shortfall is inborn.

Often with M48 eye acupuncture, Scalp acupuncture, Master Tung's acupuncture

Myopia (nearsightedness)

Western The eye brings distant light to a focus just in front of the retina, usually because the eyeball has grown slightly too long.

Classical 木 Called 能近怯遠, able to see near but timid at a distance, and read as Liver blood and Kidney essence spent by long near work.

Often with M48 eye acupuncture, Acupressure, Master Tung's acupuncture

Lazy eye (amblyopia)

Western In childhood the brain learns to favor one eye and turns down the signal from the other, so that eye sees less clearly.

Classical 水 Read as the essence and blood that build the eye and brain falling short during growth, often with a weak Spleen behind it.

Often with Scalp acupuncture, M48 eye acupuncture, Acupressure

Western A sideways curve of the spine with some rotation, structural in the bones or functional from muscle imbalance.

Classical 水 Uneven sinews along the Governing vessel and Bladder channel, over the Kidney that governs bone.

Often with Master Tung's acupuncture, Functional movement, Cupping

Western Chronic diarrhea is loose or frequent stools lasting more than about four weeks, and it calls for a medical workup.

Classical 土 Called xiè xiè, it is read by pattern: a weak or cold center, damp-heat, stress pressing on the Spleen, or fading Kidney yang.

Often with Herbal medicine, Acupuncture, Moxibustion

Western Constipation is infrequent, hard or difficult bowel movements, often with straining or a sense of not emptying.

Classical 金 Read through the Large Intestine of Metal: heat that dries, qi that stalls, or qi and blood too low to move things along.

Often with Acupuncture, Herbal medicine, Food as medicine

Western Cramping pain with the period, either on its own or caused by a condition such as endometriosis or adenomyosis.

Classical 木 Where there is pain there is no free flow: stasis, cold, constraint, or too little blood to keep things moving.

Often with Acupuncture, Moxibustion, Herbal medicine

Western Acne forms when oil and skin cells block a follicle and bacteria and inflammation take hold inside it.

Classical 土 Read as heat rising to the face, from the Lung, the Stomach and intestines, the cycle, or phlegm and stasis.

Often with Herbal medicine, Acupuncture, Food as medicine

Eczema and dermatitis

Western Eczema is a weakened skin barrier with an overactive immune response, causing dry, itchy, inflamed patches.

Classical 土 Read as damp and heat in the skin when it weeps, and as blood too dry to nourish it when it cracks.

Often with Herbal medicine, Acupuncture, Food as medicine