Hordeolum+(Stye)

"Traditional Chinese Treatment for Ophthalmic Diseases: BL-2, BL-1, TW-23, GB-1, GB-14, Yu Yao, ST-2, ST-1, LI-4, LU-7, TW-5 are commonly selected with moderate to heavy stimulation ||  ||
 * ~ Soulie De morant: recurrent eye styes: SI-7; facial swelling & abscess: LU-7
 * ~ Soulie De morant: recurrent eye styes: SI-7; facial swelling & abscess: LU-7

Attack of Wind-Heat
Mild swelling pain & itching locally, headache, fever, general discomfort
 * T:** white coat
 * P:** Superficial
 * Herbal Treatment:** Modified Yin Qiao San

Attack of Heat - Toxins From the Interior
Local swelling in the palpebra, thirst, constipation, oliguria, etc.
 * T:** yellow coat
 * P:** Rapid
 * Herbal Treatment:** Xie Huang San + Qing Wei San

Latent Heat in the Spleen & Stomach or Stomach and Spleen Weakness
recurrent but mild stye
 * Herbal Treatment:** Qing Pi San (for latent heat) OR Si Jun Zi Tang Jia Jian (for spleen & stomach weakness)

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Definition:
An acute localized pus-forming infection of either the meibomian glands (internal sty) or the glands of Zeis or Moll (external sty). Medical term is "hordeolum".

Etiology:
The usual bacterial agent is Staphylococcus. Hordeoli are associated with blepharitis.

Nutrition:
therapeutic foods: • foods that clear Heat, soothe the Liver

specific remedies: • powdered cherry seeds mixed with water for external application (Lu, p. 63) • potato or carrot poultice externally (Shefi) • soaked teabag over eye (Shefi)

avoid: • meat, alcohol, hot sauces, spicy foods, fried foods, fatty foods, rich foods, salty foods, coffee, caffeine, sweet foods and sugar, cow's milk and other dairy products, white bread, refined foods, processed foods, catarrh-forming foods: tofu, ice cream

Botanicals
• Anemone pulsatilla (toxic): internally and/or externally as wash, acute or recurrent, with sticky discharge (Harper-Shove, p. 44) • Berberis vulgaris: eye tonic, drops (Weiss, p. 341) • Chamomilla spp.: hot compress (Weiss, p. 340) • Cineraria maritima: external; most eye problems (Weiss, p. 341) • Euphrasia officinalis: external compress, sticky mucus (Felter, p. 369) • Hydrastis canadensis: astringent, soothing, all ophthalmic problems, internal and external (Felter and Lloyd, p. 1027) • Quercus alba: as cool compress (Weiss, p. 341)

note: styes are often recurrent; consider cleansing the body and building the immune system.

Chinese Formulae
• Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin: Fire Toxin: hard, deep-rooted styes (Yeung, p. 248; Bensky and Barolet, p. 84) • Bamboo Leaf and Bupleurum C.: Damp-Heat: sty or chalazion (Hsu, 1984, p. 55) • Coptis and Rhubarb C. (Xie Xin Tang): with hard internal core of swelling (Hsu, 1980, p. 190; Yeung, p. 265; Dharmananda, 1986, p. 151; Bensky and Barolet, p. 79)

Acupuncture
after assessing the person and palpating, consider these patterns: Perverse Wind-Heat attacking the Spleen and Stomach channels (i.e., the Yang Ming), reaching the eyes, the Wind-Heat and Dampness block the Qi channels and cause Xue Yu (Blood Stasis); Shi (Excess) of the Yang Qiao Mai (Yang Motility Vessel) and/or Xu (Deficiency) of the Yin Qiao Mai (Yin Motility Vessel)

» illustrative and related combinations: • Locate a small red spot on the upper back, usually between the neck and UB-38/43. The spot to treat will be located contralaterally to the lesion. Use a triangular needle to pierce the red spot at least one-eighth inch deep and squeeze out a few drops of blood. The sty should disappear after a few days and will not recur (So, 1987, p. 146) • Lu-11, SI-7 and UB-1 for sty (Chamfrault as per Mann, p. 141) • TW-10, St-36 and GB-3; SI-4 and LI-2 for blepharitis (Mann, p. 140) • GB-14, UB-2, UB-1 and TW-23; or other circumorbital points for pterygium (Chamfrault after Tsou Lieun as per Mann, p. 141) • UB-62 and SI-3: open the Yang Qiao Mai (Yang Motility Vessel) which transports Yang, moistens the eyes, and controls the opening and closing of the eyes, and for which eye conditions are a Shi (Excess) symptom • Kd-6 and Lu-7: open the Yin Qiao Mai (Yin Motility Vessel) which transports Yin, moistens the eyes, and controls the opening and closing of the eyes, and for which eye conditions are a Xu (Deficiency) symptom

Homeopathy
• Ammonium carbonicum: styes on upper right eyelids; with tension • Apis mellifica: styes with stinging pain; also prevents recurrence • Arctium lappa: styes on the edge of the eyelid; crops of styes • Calcarea carbonica: from induration; right side • Calcarea picrica: prime importance in recurrent or chronic boils, particularly when located on parts thinly covered with muscle tissue; use 3X • Chelidonium majus: styes with thick yellow mucous discharge from eye; eyelashes almost all gone on right lower lid • Colchicum: lower lid • Conium maculatum: from induration, recurrent; on occasion inflame again • Elaps corallinus: left lid; burning in lids • Graphites: lower lid, recurrent; drawing, burning pain in eye, before discharge of pus, on both eyes hordeola and chalazia in all stages; presents recurrence of successive crops of styes • Hepar sulphur: eyelids are swollen and edematous; sometimes suppurating styes will form; bruised sore sensation; cannot bear to have eyes touched; < cold air and cold applications; throbbing pain • Hypericum: left eye, lower lid • Juglans regia: burning in eyes; pressive pain above eye (left); < by motion • Arctium lappa: crops of styes • Lycopodium: toward inner canthi, left side; indicated principally in cases that have become chronic; suppurating • Mercurius sulphuricus: upper lid • Natrum muriaticum: right eye, inner canthi, towards inner canthi • Phosphoric acid: upper lid • Phosphorus: lower lid • Phytolacca: styes after hard nodules; lids thickened, indurated, dark red, tender to touch and crusts around ciliary borders • Psorinum: recurrent • Pulsatilla: towards inner canthi, upper lid especially, lower lid; left side, > in open air; patient is subject to repeated highly inflamed styes; now in one then in the other canthus, with drawing tensive pains in eyes on moving muscles of face; < evening and in warm room • Rhus toxicodendron: lower lid • Sepia: from induration; styes with redness of lids; after repeated styes hard indurated tarsal tumors form • Silicea: from induration, recurrent, towards inner canthi • Stannum: sty in the corner of the eye near the inner canthus; pressive pains; burning stitches in eyelids • Staphysagria: left eye, from induration, upper lid; from nervous exhaustion; shooting pains in paroxysms; recurrent; sty does not suppurate and break, but remains a hard nodule; styes, nodules, chalazia on eyelids one after another; useful in children suffering inflammation of the eyes, particularly of lids with hardened styes • Sulphur: recurrent, inner canthi, upper lid • Thuja occidentalis: from induration • Uranium nitricum: sty in left upper lid; edema of lower lids worse than usual; lids inflames; agglutinated • Zizia aurea: sty, right lid; sty middle of upper lid, very painful

Subtle Support
• notes: A#, B, C, D#, E, G, G#

• chords: diminished 8th, C Major, D# Major, G# Major

Mind/Body
• Anger and frustration; not wanting to see. (Hay, 1984, p. 179)

• Liver ~ Gan is the home of the Hun (Ethereal Soul); maintains smooth flow of Qi and Xue (Blood); opens into the eyes; and and reflects emotional harmony and movement. » Healthy expressions are kindness, spontaneity, and ease of movement. » Liver Shi (Excess) signs include discontent; anger; pain in lumbar region and genitals (Seem, p. 28); muscular tension; excessive sex drive; insomnia; moodiness; excitability; genital diseases; red, tearing eyes; compulsive energy; and bitter taste in the mouth. » Liver Wind derives from Liver Yin Xu (Deficiency) and/or Liver Xue Xu (Blood Deficiency) and their subsequent inability to embrace the Yang, and can manifest as joint stiffness, dizziness, tremor, paralysis, convulsions, rashes, itching, and neurological problems. Wind can also be internalized after exposure to inclement, especially windy, weather and any concomitant influences of Damp, Cold, and/or Heat.
 * Chinese psychophysiology:**

» Mental signs of Spleen channel disorders include mental sluggishness; vertigo; melancholia; obsessions turned toward the past; fixed and rigid ideas; sleepwalking; agitated sleep; and nightmares. (Seem, p. 27)

» Mental signs of Stomach channel disorders include depression, death wishes, instability, suicidal tendencies, mentally overwrought, doubt, suspicions, tendency to mania, and slowness at assimilating ideas. (Seem, p. 27)