Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of tinnitus, combining several methods

If you always hear a whirring sound in your ears, it is tinnitus. However, many people ignore tinnitus and think that it will not affect their lives. In fact, tinnitus is also a problem with some aspect of the body. It can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine and more massage.

1. Place your hands at the base of your ears , with your index and middle fingers placed in front of and behind your ears, with the middle finger in front of the ear and the index finger behind the ear. Then start from the earlobe, pinch the ear and push upwards, making sure to apply a certain amount of force and keep it close to the auricle until you reach the tip of the ear. Rub back and forth like this 50 times a day.

Since there are important acupoints such as Ermen, Tinggong, and Tinghui in front and behind the human auricle, especially in front of the ear, such rubbing can dredge the meridians and achieve the purpose of clearing the ears.

2. You can press and rub the Yifeng point . The Yifeng point is located in the depression behind the earlobe. You can place your hands on your head while massaging. Press the tip of your thumb on the Yifeng point, and place the other four fingers scattered above the ear to act as a stabilizer. Then use your thumb to press the depression firmly until you feel a sore and swollen sensation.

You can press and knead the area several times a day, or you can do it for 3 minutes. It has a very good effect on improving eyesight and clearing the orifices.

3. Rub your palms together vigorously to generate a certain amount of heat in the palms, then press your palms on your ears respectively, with your palms facing the ear canals and your fingers placed on the back of your head. Use both palms to gently press down on both ears, then slowly release.

Repeat the operation several times, and add a few more times with the thumb placed at the back (Fengchi point is located at the back of the neck, in the depression under the back of the skull, flush with the earlobe).

4. To treat tinnitus, you must first explore the "falseness and reality"

To treat tinnitus, Chinese medicine emphasizes that one must first explore the "deficiency and excess", that is, first distinguish between the two major categories of deficiency syndrome and excess syndrome. Because the treatment principles for deficiency syndrome and excess syndrome are completely different, "Huangdi Neijing" points out: "If it is deficient, supplement it; if it is excessive, purge it." That is, deficiency syndrome should be treated with tonification and excess syndrome should be treated with purgation. If the method is reversed, not only will the treatment be ineffective, it may even aggravate the condition. In clinical practice, it is common to see some tinnitus patients who, without detailed diagnosis and treatment by a specialist, buy some kidney-tonifying medicines on their own, but the effect is not good. Some even have their symptoms worsened. The reason is that they fail to distinguish between "deficiency" and "excess".

Generally speaking, tinnitus caused by exogenous evil invasion, liver fire disturbance, phlegm-fire stagnation, qi stagnation and blood stasis is a type of tinnitus. The common characteristics of patients are rapid onset, loud tinnitus, and a low tone. The patients are generally stout and have a loud voice.

On the contrary, tinnitus caused by kidney essence deficiency, qi and blood deficiency, etc. belongs to tinnitus of deficiency syndrome. The common characteristics of patients are a slow onset, a long course of illness, low loudness and high pitch of tinnitus, and tinnitus worsens after fatigue. Tinnitus of deficiency syndrome is more common in the elderly and weak.