Mainly Treated Disease
Double Vision

Mnemonic Verse
With double vision, the eyes look dazed,
When looking at one thing, it appears as two.
Tianzhu, Yanglao, Toulinqi,
Guangming, Luoque, and Ganshu can bring recovery.

Special Efficacy in Treatment
Double vision, seeing double images, diplopia, double images

Special Effective Acupoints
Tianzhu, Yanglao, Toulinqi, Guangming, Luoque, Ganshu

Introduction of Acupoints
Tianzhu: Located in the depression on the outer edge of the large tendon in the posterior hairline of the neck.
Yanglao: Located one cun behind the wrist, in the depression above the ankle bone.
Toulinqi: Located in the depression five fen straight into the hairline above the eye.
Guangming: Located five cun above the lateral malleolus.
Luoque: Located one cun behind Baihui and one cun and five fen away from the midline.
Ganshu: Located below the ninth vertebra, one cun and five fen away from the spine.

Treatment Experience of the Ancients
Recorded in “The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion”: Tianzhu can treat dim vision, and Yanglao can treat double vision.
“Ode of Marking the Mysterious”: Wang Zuan needled Jiaoshu (an acupoint), and the evil spirit immediately disappeared. By selecting Ganshu and Mingmen, it can enable a blind person to see the tip of an autumn hair. For itchy and painful eyes, reducing Guangming at the Earth Five (a specific needling method).

Clinical Experience of Sun Peirong

Medical Cases
[Case 1]: Ms. Feng, 31 years old, from Shandong Province, lived on Shuiyuan Road, Taipei City. She suffered from double vision. When looking at one thing, it appeared as two, and she was full of restlessness and irritability. Introduced by Mr. Song, on March 2, the 54th year of the Republic of China, she asked for diagnosis and treatment. After needling Tianzhu, Yanglao, Toulinqi, Guangming, Luoque, and Ganshu successively for three times, she was cured.
[Case 2]: Wu Xinhua, male, 9 years old, from Weixian County, Shandong Province, lived on Zhongnan Street, Nangang Town, Taipei County. He suffered from double vision for more than three months. He sought both Chinese and Western doctors everywhere, but all to no avail. Introduced by Mr. Li, on February 9, the 58th year of the Republic of China, he asked for diagnosis and treatment. After needling the above acupoints several times, he was cured.

Treating Physician
Sun Peirong

Addition by the Working Group
[Explanation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Disease Name]: Double Vision: Seeing a double image with both eyes, that is, what is called “diplopia” in modern medicine. It is a symptom that shows one object as two images. The most common cause is oculomotor muscle paralysis. If you cover the left eye and the right eye separately with your hand, you will find that the images received by the two eyes are not exactly the same. Under normal circumstances, the images received by the two eyes will be integrated by the brain to produce a single and three-dimensional image. The symptoms of diplopia are divided into monocular diplopia and binocular diplopia. If you close one eye and the overlapping image still exists, the problem lies in the eyeball itself, such as irregular cornea, severe astigmatism, corneal irregularity, cataract, lens dislocation, macular lesions, etc. When the phenomenon of monocular diplopia still exists when looking with a single eye, it is called “monocular diplopia”. The so-called “binocular diplopia” means that there will be double images when looking with both eyes at the same time, but when one eye is covered, the diplopia disappears. It is usually caused by abnormalities in the nerves or muscles that control the movement of the eyeballs. Women should pay special attention to whether there are abnormalities in thyroid function or diabetes, and men should pay attention to whether it is caused by the paralysis of the third or fourth pair of cranial nerves due to diabetes. In addition, the possibility of brain tumors cannot be ignored. Especially after middle age, for patients with “hypertension and diabetes”, it may be because the blood circulation of the nerves that the movement of the eyeballs is impaired, and the two eyes may suddenly have the phenomenon of overlapping images due to the oculomotor nerve paralysis and the resulting disorder of the movement of the two eyes.