Syndrome differentiation and treatment:
In clinic, the disease is classified into three syndromes: deficiency of liver blood, deficiency of both qi and blood, and deficiency of both liver and kidney. The treatment of irritated epiphora with cold tears should be mainly to nourish blood and remove pathogenic wind and, for the cases of constant weeping with excessive cold tears, the treatment should be put on the restoration of qi. If the dacryon or lacrimal pathway is blocked, operation may be needed.

1. Syndrome of Deficiency of Liver Blood
Therapeutic Methods: Tonifying  the  liver  and nourishing blood to relieve wind and arrest weeping.

2. Syndrome of Deficiency of Qi and Blood
Therapeutic Methods: Benefiting qi and nourishing blood to restore lacrimal draining function and arrest weeping.

3. Syndrome of Deficiency of Both Liver and Kidney
Therapeutic Method: Nourishing live and kidney to restore the draining function and arrest weeping.

In Chinese medicine, when treating a disease, the doctors take everything into into consideration, including climatic changes, environmental variations, emotional changes, the diet, the urine and the stool, the sleep, and the disorder of sex life. That is the feature of the Three Pathogens Theory in TCM. This etiology doctrine built on the basis of the macro methodology entirely differs from that of Western medicine. It is on the basis of the microscopic and pathologic anatomy. But it is exactly a biological, psychological, social and new medical model that Western medicine is attempting to pursue. While Chinese medicine established its own system with this medical model two thousand years ago.

Chinese doctor doesn’t considers static anatomy as a starting point for understanding the diseases, and does not rely on detection equipments. On the contrary, Chinese doctor depends on the unique ways of TCM diagnosis to experience and study the human dynamic life information. Also it is based on syndrome differentiation to guide the disease therapy. This method not only can save a lot of examination fees for patients, but also can help doctors exchange with patients more closely, thus reflecting a real humanistic spirit.