A small, preliminary study from China suggests that acupuncture might help in the treatment of lazy eye. The technical term for the condition is anisometropic amblyopia, with one eye more nearsighted than the other.
The condition is usually treated by putting a patch over one of the eyes to make the lazy eye work harder. The study compared acupuncture treatments to the eye patch. After about half a year, 40 percent of the children treated with acupuncture were cured, compared to 17 percent of those treated with eye patches.
