Trigeminal neuralgia belongs to the category of facial pain in traditional Chinese medicine, and can be treated by pressing the points of Yangbai, Fish Waist, Xiaguan and Hegu.
Yangbai is located in the head, 1 inch above the eyebrow, directly above the pupil. The main treatment for front headache, drooping eyelids, crooked mouth and eyes, eye redness, swelling and pain, blurred vision.
Fish Waist, located directly above the pupil, in the center of the eyebrow. It treats pain in the eyebrow ridge, drooping eyelids, redness and swelling of the eyes, and so on.
Xia Guan is located on the face, in the depression between the center of the lower edge of the zygomatic bone and the incision of the lower jaw. It is used for treating unfavorable teeth, facial pain, toothache, crooked mouth and eyes, deafness and tinnitus.
Hegu, located on the back of the hand, between the 1st and 2nd metacarpal bones, at the midpoint of the radial side of the second metacarpal bone. It is used for treating fever, headache, redness and swelling of the eyes, epistaxis (nosebleed), sore throat, toothache, deafness, facial swelling, excessive sweating, thirst, jaundice, dysmenorrhea and menstrual closure.
Patients with trigeminal neuralgia are advised to seek medical treatment in time. If you need to be treated by pressing acupoints, you need to be under the guidance of a doctor.