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 and let your eyes rest for a short time.
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 the liver 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
Take 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 start to fly with pollen. Patients who are allergic 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, itching, tearing, photophobia, dry eye skin, redness and swelling will occur, and you need to go to the hospital for ophthalmology for 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 and eat it with bright eyes
To nourish the eyes and protect the eyes, you must first nourish the liver and protect the liver, and green enters the liver meridian, so green food can nourish the liver.
In spring, 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 kidney, such as animal liver, milk, 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 heat treatment uses the traditional Chinese medicine heat treatment package to be placed in the eye hot compress, and the use of its warmth can achieve the effect of warming the meridian and dredging collaterals, reconciling qi and blood, and expelling wind and cold.
It has a good therapeutic effect on the treatment of "wind and tears" and dry eyes.
Acupoint health care daily can press and rub the eye acupoints and head acupoints, such as Jingming, Zanzhu, Chengxi, temple, Baihui, etc.
Acupuncture can also be used clinically for acupuncture on acupuncture points.
Thunder Fire Moxibustion, also known as Thunder Fire Moxibustion, is made of traditional Chinese medicine powder and moxa velvet to make moxa sticks. The pure Chinese medicine formula is used to smoke moxibustion on the eyes, forehead, ears, Hegu and other parts.
Its thermal effect stimulates the meridians and qi, makes the local skin mechanism open, and the medicine penetrates into the corresponding acupoints, which plays the role of dredging the meridians, activating the blood and improving the orifices, and improving the blood circulation of the surrounding tissues.
In addition, there is also the characteristic "moxibustion with glasses separated by walnut shell", in which boiled wolfberry, chrysanthemum, dense Mongolian flower, dendrobium, cassia seed, and Prunella vulgaris are added into the walnut shell to nourish yin and kidney, clear liver and eyesight, and improve eyesight and reduce nebula. Chinese herbal medicine, fix the walnut shells on both sides with iron wire to make glasses frame, and then put the moxa column in the wire mesh of the specially made glasses frame to fix it, ignite one side of the moxa column, and wear it for moxibustion to treat eye diseases.
Text/Li Weiwei (Beijing Drum Tower Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine)