Glaucoma Treated by Acupuncture

Glaucoma is a kind of eye disorders with excavation of optic disc, optic nerve atrophy and visual field defect caused by pathological ocular hypertension. Until to now, western medicine has difficulty to deal with the treatment of glaucoma, but acupuncture treatment is almost no side effect and has good effects. There are detailed introduction of etiology, symptoms, TCM differentiation, acupuncture treatment etc for acute angle closure glaucoma, chronic angle closure glaucoma and primary open angle glaucoma in this lecture.