09/12/2025
【Decoding the Mechanism Behind Dry Eye Syndrome】
8 Years of Persistent “Dry Eyes”?
Your Eye Discharge Might Be a Hidden SOS from Your Body.
Case: Mr. Chan, 45, works long hours at a computer.
For eight years, he has experienced thick, sticky eye discharge, needing to wipe his eyes every 20–30 minutes. It affected his confidence, his work, and even simple social interactions.
He visited six different specialists and tried anti-inflammatory drops, steroids, meibomian gland treatments and laser therapy. Each provided short-term relief, but nothing lasted. In desperation, he also turned to cooling herbal remedies such as turtle jelly and bile powder, which only caused diarrhoea, cold hands and feet, and increased fatigue.
Eventually, he asked:
“The more I try to fix it, the worse my eyes get — what’s actually happening?”
🔍 What his condition revealed
Severe dry eye isn’t simply “too dry.” In many long-standing cases, it’s actually a mix of dryness and internal dampness — a sign that the body’s overall balance has been disrupted.
1️⃣ Emotional stress → internal heat → depleted moisture
Years of tension and mental strain create heat that dries the body’s natural fluids, including tears.
2️⃣ Chronic fatigue + poor sleep → reduced ability to replenish tears
Tear quality depends heavily on deep rest.
Without restorative sleep, the eyes cannot recover.
3️⃣ Excess cold foods/supplements → weakened digestion → thick discharge
Cooling remedies backfired: cold injures digestion, creates internal dampness, and leads to sticky eye discharge.
4️⃣ Long-term depletion → weak nourishment → dryness + dampness together
This explains the unusual combination of:
• dryness
• burning
• and excessive discharge
Surface treatments alone could never resolve the underlying imbalance.
🧠 Key insight
When the eyes keep producing discharge, they’re not “dirty”—
they’re overwhelmed.
Many people rely on lubricants, eye drops, cleansing routines or gland treatments.
These can help temporarily, but often miss the deeper issue:
stress + exhaustion + systemic imbalance → eye symptoms as warning lights.
The eyes are simply the first place to show that the body’s rhythm is out of sync.
👨⚕️ What your body is telling you
“Dry eye isn’t just an eye problem.
When the mind settles and the body restores itself, the eyes follow.”
• Clear vision depends on smooth internal circulation
• Tear quality reflects the body’s ability to generate and conserve moisture
• Excess discharge often signals internal heat + dampness struggling to rebalance
When sleep improves, stress eases and the body regains its natural rhythm,
the eyes naturally become clearer, calmer and less reactive.
For many people, dry eye is not a small issue — it’s a reflection of stress levels, sleep health, metabolic function and emotional load.
Supporting the whole system is often the key to truly healing the eyes.
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