Talking about tinnitus

  Tinnitus refers to the patient’s consciousness of ringing in the ear, like the sound of a cicada, or like the sound of a tide. Deafness refers to varying degrees of hearing loss or even disappearance. Tinnitus can be accompanied by deafness, and deafness can also develop from tinnitus. Although the clinical manifestations and accompanying symptoms of both are different, there are many similarities in the etiology and pathogenesis, and both are closely related to the kidney. Wang, female, 35 years old, a nurse in our hospital. She had tinnitus in her right ear for 1 month. Some time ago, due to many inpatients in the department, she was tired all day and suddenly developed tinnitus, which was not effective after infusion and oral administration of Liu Wei Di Huang Wan. Therefore, he came to our department for treatment. The tinnitus was caused by his tiredness and injury to his body, loss of health in transportation and transformation, and failure to raise clear qi. After 1 week of treatment, the tinnitus disappeared.  Chinese medicine health exercises to prevent tinnitus by rubbing three points: In front of the external ear canal there is a cartilaginous projection called the ear screen. When we open our mouths, all three acupuncture points become depressed. Pressing them all has the effect of treating tinnitus and deafness. Older people can press and rub them with their fingers every day, or rub them up and down with their index or middle fingers, with heat being the best level of pressure.  Finger rubbing the ear chakra: Chinese medicine has introduced that “rubbing the ear chakra with the hands, regardless of the number of times, is called repairing its city outline to nourish the kidney energy and prevent deafness”. Make an empty fist with both hands and use your thumb and index finger to push and massage up and down along the ear chakra until it becomes red and hot. Then use the two thumbs, index fingers and middle fingers to curl into a pincer shape and pinch the outer ear canal to make forward, backward, left and right lifting and pulling movements.  Sounding the heavenly drum: Press the palms of both hands against the ear holes, and place the index finger on the middle finger for flicking the occipital area behind the ear about 20 times.  Ear vibration: Following the above method, place the palms of the hands on the ears and squeeze the ears tightly and loosely. Start slowly and forcefully, then make a quick vibration.  Wasp in the hole: Insert the two index or middle fingers into the ear hole with the belly of the fingers forward, turn them 3 times and then abruptly withdraw them, doing this 3 times each time.  Pointing: Press and rub the sore point at the back of the occiput and the bilateral Fengchi points, to have a sore and swollen feeling.  Plucking fruit: lift and pinch the opposite ear tips with the hand via the head 14 times each.  Whole-ear abdominal and dorsal massage: rub the hands together, straighten the fingers, push and rub the auricle from the front down to the back up, then reverse the folded auricle and push and rub the back of the ear back, repeat 5 to 6 times; use the palm of the Laogong point (under the tip of the middle finger when making a fist) to press and rub the ear abdomen and the back of the ear respectively, making the whole ear red and hot.