Want to slow down presbyopia after 40? Traditional Chinese medicine acupressure and dietary therapy can save your eyesight and nourish your liver and kidneys.

Modern people spend long hours using computers and mobile phones, which can easily lead to blurred vision, dry eyes, and eye irritation—signs of premature presbyopia! To avoid and delay the onset of presbyopia, in addition to maintaining good lifestyle habits, you can listen to the eye care advice of Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner Huang Jingjing. Acupressure and dietary therapy in Traditional Chinese Medicine can slow down presbyopia, and consistent treatment can even nourish the liver and kidneys.

Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of treating eye diseases. While Western surgical treatments for presbyopia and cataracts are no longer irreplaceable, traditional Chinese medicine's acupoint therapy still has advantages and can slow down the progression of presbyopia. For mild presbyopia, dry eyes, increased eye discharge, and difficulty seeing at night, acupuncture and ear acupressure can be recommended to improve symptoms.

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Acupoints are concentrated around the eye socket, including Zanzhu, Jingming, Chengqi, Sibai, Taiyang, and Yuyao (as shown in the picture). You can massage these acupoints around the eyes with your fingertips, or rub your hands together to warm them and then place them over your closed eyes to promote circulation and relieve eye fatigue. There is also a powerful acupoint on the hand called "Yanglao Point," which can improve eyesight and relax muscles. It is located in the depression next to the head of the ulna on the back of the forearm, as shown in the picture. Acupuncture and acupressure on this point can treat vision loss and dry eyes. Massage the acupoint with your fingertips for 15 seconds each time, repeating three times: after waking up, in the afternoon, and before bed. Subscribe to the free e-book "Health Bible" now!

Metabolism-boosting and vision-improving tea

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Ingredients: 1 teaspoon of cassia (2g), 2 chrysanthemums, 3 wolfberries, 3 mulberries. Women in the office who like to make tea can buy the above three ingredients and tea bags to bake tea. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eye degeneration is a symptom of liver and kidney deficiency, so nourishing the liver and kidneys can improve eyesight. Chrysanthemum, wolfberry, and mulberry can improve eyesight and nourish liver yin. Cassia seeds can clear the liver and improve eyesight, relieve food stagnation, and lower blood lipids and blood pressure. This tea is suitable for drinking in the afternoon when you feel sleepy after meals and have eye fatigue. It is also recommended that when making tea with hot boiling water, you can use slightly hot tea steam to apply to your eyes, which can promote blood circulation around the eyes and relieve muscle tension, but be careful not to apply it too close to prevent steam burns.

Goji leaf and pig's liver soup

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Ingredients: 300g sliced pork liver, 500g goji leaves, 20 goji berries, 2 slices of ginger (shredded). Instructions: Wash all ingredients. First, lightly sauté the pork liver slices in oil with the shredded ginger until fragrant. Then add 800ml of boiling water, along with all ingredients except the goji berries. Simmer over medium heat for 20 minutes, then add the goji berries and simmer for another 5 minutes. Season with salt to taste. Pork liver nourishes liver blood and is rich in Vitamin A, which can improve dry eyes. Goji leaves have antioxidant properties, combat fatigue, and lower blood lipids, offering health benefits for the blood vessels of the elderly. Combined with goji berries, which nourish the liver and kidneys, this dish can improve eye fatigue, dry eyes, and prevent presbyopia. However, people with high blood lipids or high blood pressure should reduce their consumption of animal liver and instead eat more goji leaves and berries. Subscribe to the free ebook "The Health Bible" now!

The above treatments are for reference only. If you want to know whether your constitution is suitable for various Chinese herbal decoction therapies, it is best to consult a professional Chinese medicine doctor in person.

Huang Jingjing registered as a Chinese medicine practitioner