Bringing sight and color to RP patients with Chinese Medicine

NEW YORK - Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a hereditary degenerative eye disease, believed to be an incurable disease with Western Medicine Treatment, but traditional Chinese Medicine Therapies offered a new hope for the successful treatment of RP patients.

RP is a group of genetic disorders that affect the retina's ability to respond to light. This inherited disease causes a slow loss of vision, beginning with decreased night vision and loss of peripheral (side) vision. Eventually, blindness results. Western Medicine believes there is no cure for RP right now.

Patients who are diagnosed with the disease are usually advised by their doctors to learn how to walk with a cane and to prepare for a visionless life.