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Review summarizes clinical advances in Traditional Chinese Medicine for treating dry eye disease, indicating effective therapies.
Dry eye disease (DED), also known as keratoconjunctivitis sicca, is commonly treated in Western medicine with artificial tears, meibomian gland massage, or oral pharmaceuticals, often presenting as a persistent and recurrent condition. In recent years, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has approached dry eye from perspectives such as yin deficiency, fire stagnation, liver-lung disharmony, and impaired ascending and descending functions of clear and turbid substances. Treatment utilizing herbal medicine, acupuncture, moxibustion, and integrated TCM therapies has yielded favorable outcomes. Therefore, this review examines recent literature to summarize clinical research advances in TCM pathogenesis and treatment strategies for dry eye.
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