Bai juyi eye disease from poetry

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Bai juyi life of 75 years old, a lifelong poetry two thousand first, including more than 40 first eye poetry.

As the eye of the poem, there is a narrative eye pain: one thousand snow scattered the air, hazy on a heavy yarn, longitudinal meet sunny scene such as fog, see also not spring flowers. Fog \"medium\" flower \", it shows that cannot accurately know the truth of the things, can be seen as easy eyesight abate has reached the degree of blurred vision. Despite themselves easy natural disposition open and bright, like his howling \"lotte\", helpless eyes \"a heavy yarn\" of life, is a matter of enough distress. So famous doctor make a diagnosis and give treatment for him, the doctor know he have a passion for beverages, almost there don't drink, thoughtfulness, not drunk, told him eye disease is caused by a hard-drinking, had advised its drinking. Showed the medicine in the tang dynasty to large amounts of alcohol can damage eyes have more clear understanding.

TCM holds that \"the wine for Yang, drunken Yang excessiveness\", so \"eye disease\". Modern medical research proof, often alcohol can cause chronic alcoholism, optic neuritis caused damage to the optic nerve, optic atrophy, vitreous opacity, retinal inflammation, appear vision loss, red well color vision is bad, the eyes have a center scotoma and other symptoms. In addition, long-term drinking can cause gastrointestinal dysfunction, digestion and absorption function abate, affect the absorption of B vitamins. For example, a lack of vitamin B2, eye often appear the cornea hyperemia, blepharitis, angiogenesis and so on. As the growth of the age, physical weakness, accelerates declining eyesight.

Someone in the cause of the poor eyesight survey found that drinking become an important factor affecting the visual acuity. Especially people over the age of 40, found the visually handicapped has a history of alcohol consumption accounts for 87% of the incidence, 80% of which have more than one year history of drinking or long-term drinking habits. Inspection found that this part of the National People's Congress has a different degree of conjunctival congestion, capillaries, optic nerve inflammation, and visual impairment.

Therefore, advised to meal, wine food and drink will be refreshing, beer, alcohol addicts should be good from jean perturbation, alcohol should be moderate, don't greed \"beverages\".