Document analysis of compound recipe on treatment of diabetic retinopathy in Chinese medicine

Objective:Initially discussing the rules of diabetic retinopathy treated with compound recipe.Methods: By researching domestic database of domestic journals,found out articles that matches standard,using statistic methods to analysis compound recipe on treatment of diabetic retinopathy in Chinese medicine for the last 15 years.Results: We internalized 89 articles,which mostly including 8 different methods,and refering to 127 Chinese herbs.Among them about 54 were reported than two times.The methods which were most commonly used were the activating blood circulation to dissipate blood stasis,the benefiting vital energy and nourishing Yin.They account in 84.3%,69.7% and 62.9% separately among 89 articles.The mostly reported herbs were reinforce deficiency,hematischesis promoting blood flow removing blood stasis,which account in 35.2% and 27.8% separately.Conclusion: The most commonly pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy in Chinese medicine were "deficiency" and "stagnation of blood",so supplementing Qi and nourishing Yin and activating blood circulation to dissipate blood stasis were the main methods to treat the disease.