Acupuncture Improves Tear Production for Dry Eye Disease
A recent randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted at Shanghai Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Fudan University Eye and ENT Hospital provides evidence that acupuncture at a single acupoint—Jingming (BL1)—significantly improves tear secretion in patients with moderate to severe dry eye disease (DED), outperforming standard artificial tear treatment [1].