Retinitis Pigmentosa

Dr. Chan is one of a few doctors at the Hunan TCM hospital who is famous for treating Retinitis Pigmentosa, in Chinese it is Shi Wang Mo Se Su Bian Xing or retina pigment changing. As the rods and cones die off in the retina, the patient develops night-blindness and a tunnel vision. As the story goes, Dr. Chan first became famous through his treatment of Chinese who spread the word of the treatment via international support groups. After that, a few Japanese patients who came to this hospital as well as European groups would come to Changsha and stay in the local hotel, coming everyday for a month for treatment.

A number of patients are coming for RP currently, interestingly all of them are young. A female who is 18 and a male in his 30's. Another patient is coming for degeneration of the optic nerve due to a motor cycle accident, but the treatment is virtually the same. He recommends a series of treatments, 2 front and followed by one back treatment. Front treatment is tai yang, xin ming (an extra point above the 1 cun above the lateral end of the eyebrow, 2 cun lateral to the end), Sp 6- san yin jiao, LI 4- he gu, GB 34, and shang ming (in the orbital, directly above the pupil). Sometimes UB 2 and St2 are added or the needles in the orbital are changed to ST 1 or UB 1. Remember to be careful when withdrawing the needle, as well as applying a lot of pressure to prevent the panda eye (black eyes). Even though, yesterday someone got a panda eye on the one side. Back treatment is tonifies the liver and gall bladder using points such as GB 37, UB 23, UB 18, and GB 20. The young girl has been coming everyday for quite a while and says she is seeing much better. More to come on the other patients.