Eye fatigue is a common eye disorder that often causes symptoms such as dryness, soreness, headache, pain in the eyebrow area, tearing, blurry vision, and even decreased vision. Eye fatigue is common among individuals who spend a long time using their eyes. When experiencing eye fatigue, it is important to immediately stop using the eyes and engage in moderate massage to relieve the symptoms. So, where should eye fatigue be massaged?
Massage the temples
Location: Temporal region, midpoint between the outer edge of the eyebrow and the outer corner of the eye, slightly posterior to a hollow created when pressing with the thumb.
Therapeutic effects: Dispels wind and alleviates pain, treats eye fatigue, headache, migraine, eye disorders, toothache, and facial pain.
Massage technique: Use the index and middle fingertips of both hands to massage both temples in a circular motion, while lightly placing the other four fingers on the forehead. Alternatively, use the fingertips of the thumbs to massage. During the massage, focus on areas around the temples that feel noticeably sore and swollen for better results.
Massage the Yintang acupoint
Location: Inner end of the eyebrows on the face.
Therapeutic effects: Calms adverse qi and alleviates pain, clears heat and improves vision, treats myopia, dizziness, unclear vision, redness, swelling, and pain in the eyes, eyelid twitching, and pain in the brow ridge.
Massage technique: Use the fingertips of both hands to massage both sides of the Yintang acupoint in a circular motion. During the massage, focus on areas around the brow ridge that feel noticeably sore and swollen for better results.
Massage the Yangbai acupoint
Location: 1 inch above the center of the eyebrows on the forehead, directly above the pupils.
Therapeutic effects: Dispels wind and clears fire, nourishes qi and improves vision. Treats dizziness, eye pain, strabismus, eyelid twitching, and trigeminal neuralgia.
Massage technique: Use the fingertips of both thumbs to massage both sides of the Yangbai acupoint in a circular motion, while lightly placing the other four fingers below the hairline on the forehead. Alternatively, use the thumbs to massage when making a half-fist. During the massage, focus on areas around the acupoint that feel noticeably sore and swollen for better results.
Massage the Jingming acupoint
Location: Depressed area slightly above the inner corner of the eyes.
Therapeutic effects: Clears heat and disperses wind, improves vision and eliminates opacity, treats various eye diseases, redness, swelling, pain in the eyes, tearing in the wind, myopia, hyperopia, night blindness, color blindness, etc.
Massage technique: Use the fingertips of both index fingers to massage both sides of the Jingming acupoint simultaneously. Lightly place the other four fingers below the hairline on the forehead. Alternatively, press and hold the acupoint without massaging. During the massage, focus on areas around the acupoint that feel noticeably sore and swollen, applying force in an upward direction towards the opposite side while supporting the eye socket bone, for a more pronounced sore and swollen sensation.
Massage the Yuyao acupoint
Location: Center point of the eyebrows on the forehead.
Therapeutic effects: Dispels wind and improves vision. Treats redness, swelling, pain in the eyes, myopia, migraine, headache, facial nerve paralysis, and supraorbital neuralgia.
Massage technique: Use the fingertips of both thumbs to massage both sides of the Yuyao acupoint in a circular motion, while lightly placing the other four fingers below the hairline on the forehead. During the massage, focus on areas slightly below the midpoint of the eyebrows that feel noticeably sore and swollen for better results.
Massage the Sizhukong acupoint
Location: Slightly outside the outer edge of the eyebrows on the face.
Therapeutic effects: Dispels wind and improves vision, calms the mind, and treats migraine, redness, swelling, and pain in the eyes, epilepsy.
Massage technique: Use the fingertips of both thumbs to massage both sides of the Sizhukong acupoint in a circular motion, while lightly placing the other four fingers on the forehead. Alternatively, use a plucking technique by holding and vertically plucking the tendons at the acupoint.
Massage the Sibai acupoint
Location: Depression below the pupils on the face.
Therapeutic effects: Dispels wind and activates collaterals, clears heat and improves vision. Treats red and itchy eyes, floaters, and cataracts.
Massage technique: Use the index fingertip to apply pressure to the acupoint and massage both sides of the Sibai acupoint in a circular motion. Alternatively, use the index and middle finger together to massage for better results. During the massage, focus on areas directly below the pupils that feel noticeably sore and swollen for better results.
