Spring is here and everything is revived. Chinese medicine believes that spring belongs to wood, and liver belongs to the wood of the five elements. This is also a good time for eye care and eye care, especially those with low heads and office workers who keep their computers, tablets, mobile phones and other electronic products in their hands all day long, and suffer from eye fatigue, dryness, and pain. Strike while the iron is hot, and quickly learn from the doctor the coup for eye-catching in the next spring.
Reduce overuse of the eyes and drink tea to help protect the liver
Don’t stare at the computer or TV for a long time, look out the window every half an hour, or close your eyes to rest your mind, Give your eyes a short rest. For dry eyes, artificial tears can be used to relieve symptoms. At the same time, blinking is also conducive to the secretion of tears and promotes moisturizing of the eyes.
Drinking health tea is also one of the ways to protect and nourish the liver. You can choose herbs such as wolfberry, chrysanthemum or cassia seeds to nourish yin, nourish the liver, clear the liver and improve eyesight. In addition, when we drink tea, we put the eyes close to the mouth of the cup, so that the water vapor is distributed around the eyes, and the effect of nourishing the liver and eyes will be better.
Do more outdoor activities to relax your mind and eyes
More outdoor activities to stretch your body and mind, extend your sight to a high distance, naturally adjust your eye muscles and help you relax.
In the year of the Winter Olympics, when you watch the Winter Olympics and enjoy winter sports such as skating and skiing, you must remember to wear protective glasses to avoid sun damage to your eyes. In spring, some plants begin to fly with pollen. Patients with allergies to flowers, plants and trees should not stand beside the flowers and trees and under the wind direction when they go out for an outing, so as not to inhale pollen and cause allergies.
Once the eye is allergic, there will be itching, tearing, photophobia, dry eye skin, redness and swelling, and you need to go to the hospital for eye examination. Traditional Chinese medicine can try to reduce allergy symptoms by sticking ear beans and bloodletting at the tip of the ear.
Eat more green food to brighten your eyes and eat it out
To nourish your eyes and protect your eyes, you must first nourish the liver and protect the liver. Green enters the liver meridian, so green food can nourish the liver.
In spring, you should avoid high temperature, spicy, greasy, and tonic foods. People who need to use their eyes for a long time can eat more foods that nourish the liver, protect the liver, and nourish the liver and kidneys, such as animal liver, milk, and soy products. , carrots, sweet potatoes, spinach, celery, oranges, strawberries, etc.
There is a “prescription” for Chinese medicine to help protect the eyes
The traditional Chinese medicine hot ambiguous medicine package is placed on the eye area, and the heat can be used to warm the eyes and dredging the collaterals. , Reconcile qi and blood, expel wind and drive cold.
It has a good therapeutic effect on the treatment of “wind and tears” and dry eyes.
Acupoints Health Care Daily acupoints on the eyes and head, such as Jingming, Zanzhu, Chengxi, temple, Baihui, etc. can be massaged.
Acupuncture can also be used clinically to perform acupuncture on acupuncture points.
Moxibustion method Thunder fire moxibustion, also known as thunder fire moxibustion, is made of traditional Chinese medicine powder and moxa velvet to make moxa sticks. It uses pure Chinese medicine formula to smoke moxibustion on the eyes, forehead, ears, Hegu and other parts. . Its thermal effect stimulates the meridians and qi, opens the local skin mechanism, and the medicine penetrates into the corresponding acupoints, which plays the role of dredging the meridians, activating the blood and the orifices, and improving the blood circulation of the surrounding tissues.
In addition, there is also the characteristic “Walnut shell-separated glasses moxibustion”, which adds cooked wolfberry, chrysanthemum, Mimenghua, Dendrobium, Cassia, Prunella, etc. The Chinese herbal medicine for eyesight, eyesight and nebulousness, the walnut shells on both sides are fixed with iron wire to make the glasses frame, and then the moxa column is fixed in the wire mesh of the specially made eyeglass frame, and one side of the moxa column is ignited, and then put on the eyeglass frame. Moxibustion for eye diseases.
Written by Li Weiwei (Beijing Drum Tower Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine)