Walnut Shell Glasses Moxibustion for Dry Eye Syndrome

Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Dry Eye

Treatments: Drug: Sodium hyaluronate eye drops; Procedure: Walnut Shell Glasses Moxibustion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03116776

2016-121-KY-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial is designed to evaluate the efficacy of walnut shell glasses moxibustion for dry eye syndrome compared with sodium hyaluronate eye drops.

Enrollment: 128 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. eyes are in line with dry eye diagnostic criteria.
2. Age 18 to 75 years,
3. signed informed consent, voluntary adherence to treatment for more than 1 month.

Exclusion criteria

1. combined with other eye disease (such as conjunctiva, cornea and iris have significant lesions).
2. eye surgery within 3 months.
3. pregnant or lactating women.
4. oral the drugs which could inhibit lacrimal gland secretion.
5. severe meibomian gland dysfunction.
6. severe eye burns, chemical injury patients.
7. combined with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular, liver, kidney and hematopoietic system and other serious primary disease, mental patients.
8. patients with Sjogren's syndrome.
9. patients who are participating in other drug clinical trials.
10. patients who are using other drugs or therapies for the treatment of dry eyes.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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128 participants in 2 patient groups

Walnut Shell Glasses Moxibustion

Experimental group

Description:

Use wire to make a glass frame which can fix two walnut shells and moxa roll in front of the eyes, the walnut shell should be soaked in medlar chrysanthemum water and use the moxibustion to treat eye disease.

Treatment:

Procedure: Walnut Shell Glasses Moxibustion

Sodium hyaluronate eye drops

Active Comparator group

Description:

Commonly used artificial tears in clinical.

Treatment:

Drug: Sodium hyaluronate eye drops