[Study on acupuncture for treatment of oculomotor paralysis according to syndrome differentiation of meridians].

The authors compared and analyzed the correlated meridians in Internal Classic and Study on the Eight Extra-Channels and Vessels by clinical observation on acupuncture for treatment of oculomotor paralysis and reorganization research on ancient related literature, and course of meridians and collaterals, manifestations of disease and function were used as indexes. The present symptoms of oculomotor paralysis (paralytic strabismus) are well consistent with the delineation in Internal Classic such as inability to open eyes, blurring of vision and pain of outer canthus. The results indicate that it is important to regulate the Qiao Meridian function for acupuncture treatment of oculomotor paralysis; the method of the twelve regular meridians and the eight extra-meridians is different for treatment of this disease, for the twelve regular meridians treating the superficiality and the eight extra-meridians treating the origin, and the combinativue use of the two methods can display the TCM theory thought and the characteristic of simultaneous treatment of principal and subordinate symptoms; there is closely relation between musculature diseases and pathological change of oculomotor paralysis and it is helpful in perfecting therapeutic principles and research methods.