If your eyesight is not good, press the back of your head and you can see the effect on the same day
Preface:Look for tender points in the lower edge of the occipital bone at the back of the head on the same side of the affected eye and the upper cervical spine, and find the eye symptoms to change after compression, and then rub and press vigorously in the area for about 1 minute, treat 2~3 times a day, and the effect can be seen on the same day.
The other day, I saw a female patient with the surname Kong. She is a draftsman, and in the past year, her eyesight has gradually deteriorated, her vision often feels blurry, and her eyes are easily dry and tired.
At first, she didn't pay much attention, thinking that it was just caused by looking at the computer for too long and her eyes were too tired, so she bought a variety of health care eye drops and often dropped her eyes, but the situation has not improved.
Recently, she read a newspaper and said that in today's society, due to the popularity of electronic products such as mobile phones, computers, iPads, and game consoles, many people use their eyes excessively, resulting in eye diseases that are becoming more and more "younger", and if not treated in time, it may lead to blindness.
Ms. Kong was very worried, so she went to the eye hospital for a check-up, but nothing was wrong, and the doctor just told her to pay attention to eye rest, and did not even prescribe medicine to her. Ms. Kong was not at ease, thinking that since Western medicine could not see the problem, it would be better to find a Chinese medicine doctor, so she was introduced to me.
After listening to Ms. Kong's narration, I asked her to sit on the chair, went around her back, and gently pressed her fingers on the lower edge of the occipital bone on the back of her head.
Despite the warning, Ms. Kong couldn't help but scream, and I stopped and asked her how she was looking now. Ms. Kong looked around, with a surprised expression on her face, saying that her eyes had a dry feeling just now, and after pressing me a few times, this feeling was much milder now. Seeing that she had such a reaction, I could basically make a diagnosis, and Ms. Kong's suffering from it was called "cervical vision impairment".
It sounds a little strange, but it makes sense. I still remember the first time I encountered this disease in my clinical setting. At that time, I was just starting to practice medicine and was still very inexperienced, and I met a 28-year-old patient in the outpatient clinic who was in a car accident while driving a motorcycle a year ago, and the person flew out and hit his head on the ground, and he fell into a coma instantly.
My friend immediately sent him to the hospital, and on the same day, he underwent CT, MRI and other examinations, showing that there was no abnormality in the cranial brain and cervical spine, and the doctor said that he was dying, just a slight concussion. Sure enough, he woke up from a coma the next day, but when he woke up, the patient found that he had double vision and blurred vision when he looked to the left, but not when he looked forward or to the right.
He told the doctor about this symptom, and the doctor was also puzzled, and repeatedly performed MRI scans of his brain, and each time it showed that the nerves in the brain were normal and not damaged. The patient had no way to see a doctor, and after being discharged from the hospital, he sought medical treatment in many ways, went to the ophthalmology and neurology departments of more than a dozen hospitals, but could not find the reason, and could not see the effect after taking a variety of drugs.
When I saw this patient, I didn't know what to do at first, thinking that so many doctors couldn't see it well, could I handle it? But then I calmed down, considering that this patient's problem initially appeared after trauma, according to the understanding of traditional Chinese medicine, trauma will lead to local qi stagnation and blood stasis, meridian blockage, which may cause eye problems.
According to this line of thought, I tried to slowly find the area of the patient's head trauma, and finally found a point with obvious tenderness at the lower edge of the occipital bone on the back of his left head, near the Fengchi acupoint, and pressed hard here, and then asked him to turn his neck to look to the left, and the man said that his left eye had become brighter, and the symptoms of double vision and blurred vision were significantly reduced.
So I decided to use this as a treatment point and performed massage and acupuncture treatment. After the treatment, the man's symptoms basically disappeared, and after two days of continuous treatment, he recovered. The patient was very happy and wrote a thank you letter to praise me.
Although the case was cured, I didn't quite understand the mechanism at the time, so I went to the library to check the literature, only to find out that the young man had "cervical vision impairment".
Cervical vision impairment refers to a series of eye symptoms caused by upper cervical spondylosis or soft tissue injury to the lower edge of the occipital bone and upper neck, and there are no obvious organic lesions in ophthalmic examination.
The young man's head hit the ground, although it did not cause damage to the cervical vertebrae bones, but it damaged the soft tissues of the neck, and MRI and CT could not find the lesions of the soft tissues, so the previous doctors did not consider this aspect, which led to his multiple attempts to seek medical treatment but still could not be effective.
Why is the eye related to the lower edge of the occipital bone and the neck? It is not surprising from the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, because the Du Pulse and the Three Yang Meridians of the hands and feet that follow the neck are directly or indirectly related to the eye system. When there is a problem with the cervical spine, the meridians in the neck are blocked, and the flow of qi and blood is not smooth, which will directly lead to eye problems.
From the point of view of modern medicine, the eyes are also related to the neck. This is because the nerve fibers emitted from the spinal cord of the upper neck are connected to the eye tissues through a network of nerve fibers, and can play a role in regulating the pupillary sphincter, eyelid muscles, and blood circulation in the eye.
When there is an acute injury (such as a traffic accident) or chronic strain (such as an old age, or a long-term desk work) in the neck, the damage may interfere with the nerve pathway to the eye, causing nerve conduction to be impaired, and eventually causing eye dysfunction and vision problems.
Later, in clinical practice, I slowly found that there are actually a lot of cervical vision disorders, especially in white-collar office workers, especially in the working people who rely heavily on computers, who work with their heads down for a long time, and chronic strain on the soft tissues of the neck, which may cause eye symptoms. But when they go to see a doctor, many clinicians tend to ignore the cause of the neck, and Ms. Kong is in this case.
Ms. Kong listened to my explanation, was convinced, and asked me to help her with her treatment as soon as possible. I told her not to worry, and carefully examined, and finally found three obvious tender points at the lower edge of her left and right occipital bones and next to the spinous process of the third cervical vertebrae, and after pressing, her eye symptoms were alleviated, as if these three points were the "switch" of the eye, and one press could make the eye change. So I performed acupuncture and massage techniques in these three positions, and after three treatments, her symptoms disappeared completely.
If you have visual impairment, but the eye examination does not find obvious abnormalities, or the treatment effect is not good according to conventional methods, you can also treat cervical vision impairment by yourself, which may often have unexpected effects.
In the treatment of this disease, the pressure position is generally not on a fixed acupuncture point, and it is generally necessary to find a specific treatment point at the lower edge of the occipital bone and the upper cervical paravertebral area on the same side as the affected eye.
If you feel that your vision in the left eye is not good, start at the lower edge of the occipital bone behind the left ear and slowly press towards the cervical spine from the outside to the inside. After reaching the cervical spine, slowly press from the upper cervical spine to the left side of the cervical spinous process from top to bottom until the middle of the cervical spine.
If one or more significant tender points can be found in these areas, and the visual impairment changes after compression, the treatment point can be identified.
Press and rub with your fingers at the treatment point, pay attention to rub hard to the depths, rub each treatment point for about 1 minute, treat 2~3 times a day, generally the same day can be effective, continuous treatment for about a week, often can be cured.