Author(s): Huang Wei Ling
The different ways of evaluating and understanding diseases by different medicines existing in the past and in the present, made the author write this article on diabetic retinopathy [1].
To understand what we are saying these days, we need to understand that medicine once had great names in the past and that, today’s medicines is due to many discoveries of great doctors in the past [2].
One of them was Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), father of medicine, who developed the theory of humors and who says that diseases come from the imbalance of the four liquids within the body, which are Yellow bile, Black bile, Blood and Fleugma [3].
The second name is Galen (129 ce - c. 216), a Greek physician, that lived 500 years after Hippocrates, that has already written several books in the medical field and that his thoughts and discoveries, mainly in the area of anatomy, still exert influence today [4].
The third who left his legacy to medicine was Hahnemann (1755 - 1843), the German doctor who discovered and created homeopathy. This kind of medication is highly recommended these days, due to the types of population we currently have. This affirmation Huang (2021) showed in the article entitled Are we vaccinating immune suppressed or immune competent people for COVID-19? [5].
With regard to diabetes and its complications, diabetes has hyperglycemia in common with Western and in traditional Chinese medicine, but the way to understand the formation of diabetes between them is very different [1].
According to Western medicine, diabetes is formed by the inability to form more insulin by the pancreas or by other preexisting factors such as obesity, sedentary lifestyle, eating error that leads to a state of increased blood glucose [1].
The way which Chinese medicine understands about diabetes is that it is characterized by energy imbalances leading to Yin deficiency and Heat retention. The Yin energy is produced in the Kidney, leading to the formation of internal Heat, when there are energy deficiencies in general [1].
In the article written by Huang (2019) entitled Why Are Diabetic Patients Still
Having Hyperglycemia Despite Diet Regulation, Antiglycemic Medication and
Insulin? the author is discussing the different levels of treatment at the leaf level and
the root level and comparing the different viewpoints between Western medicine
and traditional Chinese medicine. The author usually uses the metaphor of the tree
to compare Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine’s point of view.
In this metaphor, each tree’s branch represents one medical specialty and each
leaf that comes out of each leaf, represents one symptom or disease treated by
each specialty. The roots symbolize the Yin and Yang Theory and Five Elements
Theory that usually not seeing by the naked eyes. All the energy imbalances in the
root, will generate symptoms in the leaf of the tree, manifests in many symptoms
in many specialties. One energy imbalance can generate many other diseases and
one disease can come from many different energy imbalances [1].
The treatment at the leaf level and not treating the energy imbalances that are at
the root level has generated treatment failures in which the patient is not seen in
its entirety [1].
With regard to diabetic patients with diabetic retinopathy, through the author's
experience, the problem of retinopathy is only the tip of the iceberg, but the real
problem is under the water line, submerged inside the ocean, and which should be
treated for complete improvement of the disease at the root level [6].
In an article written by Huang (2020) entitled The Importance of Treating Energy
Imbalances and Chakras Replenishment for Prevention and Treatment Chakras
Replenishment for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer, the author reported
a diabetic patient who had high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and diabetic
retinopathy, who discovered a malignant thyroid cancer in one of her routine
gynecological exams, in 2018 [6].
Between the period of diagnosis and surgery (for about 2 months), the patient
went through an intensive treatment process using daily acupuncture sessions, and
changed all her diet, avoiding a series of foods such dairy products, raw foods,
iced or cold water, sweets, coconut, fried foods, chocolate, egg, honey, alcoholic
beverages and avoiding soft drinks, coffee and mate tea [6].
After this process, surgery to remove the malignant tumor was referred (two
months after) and during the intraoperative period, a freezing biopsy was taken
and it was discovered that the malignant tumor became benign [6].
In addition, there were a reduction in the blood pressure, blood glucose and
glycosylated hemoglobin. She also had a weight reduction, besides having
improved diabetic retinopathy, not needing to be performing those intraocular
injections of medications (Eylia) to be applied to the eye, at that time. The author
notice that diabetic retinopathy is very linked to errors in the eating habit and
usually, when the patient has signs of diabetic retinopathy, is it usually because
the patient is not following the Chinese dietary counseling accordingly, eating
many fried foods, melted cheese, chocolate, eating dairy products, etc [1, 7].
This case and in many other patient reports (that had diabetic retinopathy and
improved only doing this same treatment to rebalance the internal energy using
Chinese dietary counseling, auricular acupuncture and apex ear bloodletting) leads
the author to believe that diabetic retinopathy is not a condition located in the eye,
but rather a local manifestation of a general systemic imbalance and the treatment
of the eye (only in the leaf level of the tree) without the treatment of the root
(which are the energy balances ), only lead to the treatment of the symptom and
do not to the cause the diabetic retinal disease, which are the energy imbalances
and the formation of internal Heat , described by the author [1].
In the article written by Pang etc al. (2020) entitled Traditional chinese medicine for diabetic retinopathy A systematic review and meta-analysis, they are saying that the incidence of diabetic retinopathy is 43% of all retinopathy and 8,1% of diabetic patients will have this condition in the evolution of diabetes [8].
In the book written by Wei Qi-ping (2011) entitled Ophthalmology in Chinese Medicine, the author of this book says that the eye is the organ that most improves with acupuncture treatment [9].
In another study written by Huang (2020) entitled Energies Alterations and Chakras’
Energies Deficiencies as the Cause of Sub Retinal Fluid Retention in Polypoidal
Choroidal Vasculopathy, , the author says that the accumulation of fluid inside
the eye are only manifestations of energy imbalance (Spleen-pancreas deficiency
and Kidney energy deficiency) that leads to the formation of the disease in the
eye. These energy alterations were confirmed by the author when she performed
the radiesthesia procedure measurement of the energy of the chakras, showing
energy deficiency in all the five massive organs (Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lung and
Kidney) [10].
In another article written by Huang (2020) entitled Strabismus after Cerebral
Spastic Paralysis Sequelae of Bacterial Meningitis Treated with Acupuncture,
the author reported that she had a patient who presented bacterial meningitis and
demonstrated strabismus as a sequelae of the infection and the patient also had
spastic paralysis of the lower limbs. This specific patient improved strabismus
when the author performed acupuncture to treat the patient's spasticity. This
happened because the author usually treats the root of the problem (that are the
energy imbalances) and not just the symptoms [11].
In the article written by Huang (2019) The Importance of Correcting Energy
Imbalances and Chakras Energy Deficiencies in the Treatment of Patients with
Glaucoma, the author describes two cases reports that went to her clinic to treat
glaucoma condition because they were not having control of the intra-ocular
pressure only using eye-drops and what the author said in this article was that
patients with glaucoma have chakras’ energy centers deficient in energy and the
treatment of this condition is very important to reduce the intra-ocular pressure and
the author considers glaucoma as an systemic condition and the high-intra-ocular
pressure is only a local manifestation of a systemic disease. This presentation the
author did in the 30th world Congress of Ophthalmology and Optometry. October
28-29. 2020. Amsterdam, Netherlands [7, 12].
The author presented the importance in treating the root level in all kinds of
diseases curing at the Acupuncture Research Congress, that was held in Boston,
in 2015, at the Harvard Medical School, where the author demonstrated that the
treatment of Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood imbalances are important to treat all the
patient's physical and emotional problems at the same time, even if the doctor
does not know that the patient has such symptoms [1].
Therefore, to finish this article, the author would like to emphasize the need
to integrate current medicine with older medicine such as traditional Chinese
medicine, which was totally abandoned and considered unscientific by the medical
community due to the implementation of the Flexner report in 1913, modifying
all guidelines which emphasizes that what the physician must consider scientific
only what he can prove radiological and laboratory level. After this implantation,
almost 80% of all schools that teach in a more naturalistic way, using homeopathy,
chiropractic, herbal medicine, need to close because they are no longer fitting in the
requirements of this new ruled implanted by Flexner, having in the background,
Rockefeller and Carnegie foundation [13].
Finally, the author would like to say that deeper understanding of how all diseases
are formed, in this case diabetic retinopathy; it is of paramount importance for the
treatment of the cause and not just the symptom [1].
As Hippocrates said, we must treat the patient (root level) and not the disease
(leaf level) but even today's medicine tends to treat only the disease (leaf level)
and not the patient (root level) [3].
Therefore, the direction in which medicine is heading must be re-evaluated instead
of being over-specialized, we need to expand the vision by seeing the patient as
a whole in its most diverse physical, mental/emotional and spiritual aspects and
also taking into account dietary and environmental factors that are influencing
health and disease [13]
