DESCRIPTION  Macular degeneration is a disorder that affects the macula (the central part of the retina of the eye) causing decreased visual acuity and possible loss of central vision. |
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HERBS OF CHOICE Herbs are often used in combinations when combating an illness. Some of the most frequently used herbs are listed below. These nine herbs were picked up from different herbal combinations and are not meant to form a recipe. Our reference code for the different combinations of herbs used for this condition is XMC. This listing is not meant to diagnose, only to inform. This is of course not a complete list and is not meant to be used in the place of a doctor's advice. Click the image of each herb for a brief introduction in terms of Traditional Chinese Medicine. |
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CLINICAL SUCCESS IN CHINA Chinese herbal doctors have reported some successful applications of these herbal combinations. During observation on 37 patients receiving treatment with herbal remedy, pysicians judged the clinical efficacy to be good or excellent in 81.1%. Check the table below for details. |
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During other observation on 31 eyes of 25 patients receiving treatment with herbal remedy, 13 eyes were judged as significant improvement, 10 eyes other moderate improvement. Physicians judged the clinical efficacy to be good or excellent in 74.2%. Check the table below for details. |
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HERBAL REMEDY BEST FOR YOU The most powerful feature of Traditional Chinese Medicine is that it allows you to easily combine multiple ingredients to form a recipe to suit the specific need of individual. The list below are to give you an idea of why you can get the herbal remedy best for you from here with us. |
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Authoritative Oriented Recipes: All these well chosen herbal combinations source from experienced and authoritative experts, and have been most commonly recognized by the practitioners in this field. When you choose a herbal remedy there are two important things among your concerns: a good recipe and a correct way to cook it. A good recipe is half the good results. |
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Custom-made with Unique Technology: When you order a herbal remedy at this website you can figure out your symptoms by using our online questionnaire system. In this way a basic herbal recipe could be customized and optimized by adding or removing some herbs to address the individual symptoms exactly. Chinese herbs should not be used in form of standard industrial products manufactured in bulk to cope with all body issues. Only custom-made is the traditional and professional way to use Chinese herbs. All the herbal remedies available at this website are purposed to be custom-made on each single order base. With our unique technology called Low-temperature Concentration the active ingredients of herbs could be survival as much as possible while being concentrated. Eevery 8 ml of the extracts, as one dose, might equal to about 50 grams of raw herbs. |
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Safe and Side Effect Free: All these herbs have been being used in China for thousands of years, and have been proven to be safe. In fact most Chinese herbs are tonics without side effects. What important is that experienced practitioners should know how to use herbs to avoid possible side effects.
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Easy-to-Take Dosage Form: You do NOT need to cook these herbs at all. We get everything ready for you. The herbal remedy comes with the preparation in an easy-to-take dosage form, typically an oral dosage form namely Liquid Herbal Extracts created on a single order base. If necessary other dosage forms, such as pills, capsules, tablets, powder, tea bag, agar gel, rinse, lotion, spray, tincture, liniment, ointment, suppositories, etc., might be used depending on how to use the herbs correctly. And herbal remedy kit, consisting of two different herbal formulae typically one for oral administration and another for external use, is often used for the skin conditions. |
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Low-cost Customized Service: Four month's supply of this custom-made herbal preparation created on a single order base costs US$499.95 only. It is the average duration to take the remedy for an effect recommended for most individuals with different responses. Shipping charges are not included in the purchase price and will depend upon the shipping method that you choose. Please read our Shipping Policy for details. No any other hidden fees. Click the button below to go to questionnaire and order this herbal remedy. |
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The most common type of macular degeneration is called age-related macular degeneration (AMD), because it usually develops in patients over the age of 55. A rare form of macular generation, called juvenile macular degeneration (JMD), occurs in younger patients, including infants and children. JMD is an inherited disorder caused by mutated genes. |
Because AMD primarily affects central vision, patients usually do not lose vision completely, even at very advanced stages. This disorder can make it difficult to read, drive, work at a computer, and perform other activities that require clear central vision. AMD occurs in two forms, dry and wet. |
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Dry (atrophic) - This form of AMD accounts for 85-90% of all cases. The earliest sign of AMD is the development of waste material deposits, called drusen, that appear as tiny orange or yellow dots among the retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells. These deposits are initially tiny and few in number, but they may grow larger and become more numerous. The presence of drusen does not necessarily signal vision loss, and many people with drusen continue to have good vision for decades. As dry AMD progresses, mild to moderate visual acuity loss may occur.
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Over time, patches of RPE cells may die, leaving "bare" spots. This is called geographic atrophy and results in vision loss in the affected areas of the retina. If these patches become large and involve the fovea, visual acuity can deteriorate to the point of legal blindness. Geographic atrophy is a severe form of dry macular degeneration.
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Wet (vascular) - The wet form accounts for approximately 10% of cases but is responsible for the vast majority of severe, AMD-related vision loss. Vascular macular degeneration begins as the dry form and progresses to the wet form when abnormal blood vessels develop. In wet AMD, abnormal blood vessel growth is triggered by mechanisms that are not completely understood. The new vessels are very delicate, break easily, and bleed and leak fluid into surrounding tissue. This can damage the macula very quickly and may cause central vision loss in a short time. The risk for progression from dry to wet AMD is approximately 14-87% over 5 years and depends on many factors.
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The exact causes of age-related macular degeneration are still unknown. The dry form of AMD may result from the aging and thinning of macular tissues, depositing of pigment in the macula, or a combination of the two processes. With wet AMD, new blood vessels grow beneath the retina and leak blood and fluid. This leakage causes retinal cells to die and creates blind spots in central vision.
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Factors that place you at a higher risk for AMD include having a family member with AMD, smoking, high blood pressure, farsightedness and obesity. Whites and females tend to get the disease more that their counterparts. |
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- Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD or AMD)
- Senile macular degeneration (SMD)
- Subretinal neovascularization
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Macular degeneration can produce a slow or sudden painless loss of vision. If straight lines look wavy to you, or your vision seems fuzzy, or there are shadowy areas in your central vision, you may be experiencing early signs of AMD.
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Often, the eyecare practitioner detects early signs of macular degeneration before you experience symptoms. This usually is accomplished through a visual field screening, a brief test that measures your peripheral vision. If the eyecare practitioner detects some defect in your peripheral vision, he or she will order a full visual field exam, a much longer test that provides more extensive information about your vision. |
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