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Uveitis

How Chinese medicine differentiates uveitis — inflammation inside the eye causing pain, redness, and light sensitivity — into the four patterns you'll actually meet in practice, and the points for each. Distinct from this site's own Iritis page (uveitis is broader, involving the iris, ciliary body, and/or choroid). Acupuncture only — no herbs.

This page is educational, for practitioners and students — it is not a diagnostic tool and does not replace a proper in-person assessment. Eye pain with redness and vision changes needs prompt ophthalmological evaluation — uveitis can threaten vision and sometimes signals an underlying autoimmune or infectious condition — before assuming a simple pattern.
General Acupuncture Points

Acupuncture points traditionally used for uveitis — 8 key points, used across the patterns below rather than tied to just one.

PointKey action
L.I.-4Expels exterior Wind. Regulates Defensive Qi.
BL-1Expels Wind. Clears Heat. Brightens the eyes.
BL-2Expels Wind. Clears Heat. Brightens the eyes. Subdues Liver-Yang.
LR-3Subdues Liver-Yang. Extinguishes interior Wind.
LR-2Drains Liver-Fire and subdues Liver-Yang. Extinguishes interior Wind.
SP-6Strengthens the Spleen. Nourishes Blood and Yin.
BL-18Resolves Damp-Heat. Moves Liver-Qi and eliminates stagnation. Nourishes Liver-Blood.
KI-3Tonifies the Kidneys (both Yin and Yang). Strengthens the lower back and knees.
The Four Patterns

↑ reinforcing   ↓ reducing   ⊥ even method.

1. Wind-Heat View full pattern →

Clinical manifestations: Sudden onset of pupil constriction, sharp eye pain worsened by light, photophobia and tearing, redness around the iris, fever with mild chills.
Tongue: Red tip and edges with thin yellow or thin white-to-yellow coating. Pulse: Floating and rapid.
Treatment principle: Dispel Wind, clear Heat from the upper body and eyes.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Invasion-of-Lungs-by-Wind-Heat slide on the exterior-invasion level, the established convention.

2. Liver Fire Blazing View full pattern →

Clinical manifestations: Pupil severely constricted with pain worsened by pressure, intense redness around the iris, bitter taste in the mouth, irritability and quick temper, throbbing headache at the temples.
Tongue: Red body with redder sides, dry yellow coating, possible red prickles. Pulse: Wiry and rapid, forceful at the left Guan position.
Treatment principle: Drain excess Liver and Gallbladder Fire, subdue rising Liver Yang.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Liver-Fire-blazing slide.

3. Damp-Heat in the Liver Channel

Clinical manifestations: Turbid or cloudy aqueous humor, heavy oppressive pain around the brow and temple, blurry or misty vision, bitter taste in the mouth, feeling of heaviness in the body, nausea or poor appetite.
Tongue: Red body with redder sides, thick yellow greasy coating heaviest at the center and root. Pulse: Wiry, slippery, rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat and dry Dampness, drain Liver Fire and move Qi.
Note: no moxa. This site's own Damp-Heat-in-the-Liver slide is genital/vaginal-discharge-specific, confirmed by re-reading its content — not a fit for this eye-specific presentation, consistent with the same finding on Keratitis, Ptosis and Photophobia earlier this project — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.

4. Kidney and Liver Yin Deficiency Causing Heat in the Blood View full pattern →

Clinical manifestations: Dry, gritty eye sensation, blurry vision with a constricted sometimes irregular pupil, night sweats or five-centre heat, low back and knee soreness, dry mouth and throat especially at night, dizziness, tinnitus or insomnia.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry body with little or no coating, often cracked with redder sides. Pulse: Fine and rapid, wiry at the left Guan (Liver) position and weak at the left Chi (Kidney) position.
Treatment principle: Nourish Liver and Kidney Yin, brighten the eyes, clear deficiency Heat.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Kidney-and-Liver-Yin-deficiency slide — the source adds a "causing Heat in the Blood" nuance not explicit in the deck name, but the underlying Yin-deficiency picture lines up closely.
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