How to eliminate tinnitus

Aug 06, 2022 Source: Cainiu Health

Dr. Xu Gang

Introduction

While washing your face, gently massage your ears and earlobes, or cup your hands over your ears with your thumbs positioned behind your head and lightly tap your skull with your four fingers. This stimulates the peripheral nerves, promotes blood circulation, lymphatic flow, and metabolism, thereby alleviating tinnitus. Simultaneously cover both ears with your palms, gently compress, and then quickly release. Repeating this technique several times enhances blood circulation in the ears.

Although tinnitus does not cause hearing loss, chronic tinnitus can significantly impair a patient’s hearing and even affect their physical and mental health. So, how can tinnitus be alleviated?

How to Alleviate Tinnitus

While washing your face, gently massage your ears and earlobes, or cover your ears with your hands—placing your thumbs behind your head and lightly tapping your scalp with your four fingers. This stimulates surrounding nerves, promotes blood circulation, lymphatic flow, and metabolism, thereby relieving tinnitus. Simultaneously cover both ears with your palms, gently compress, then quickly release. Repeating this technique several times enhances blood circulation in the ears, helping to reduce tinnitus and alleviate mental fatigue. Sit quietly, clench your teeth, pinch your nostrils closed with two fingers, and close your eyes—allowing air to enter the ear canal. This increases vascular pressure in the ears, directing more blood flow to the area and aiding tinnitus relief. Place a warm towel over your ears, then press and gently rub them with your palms to dilate blood vessels and increase local blood supply. Upon waking in the morning, open your mouth wide, exhale fully, inhale deeply, then close your mouth. This rhythmic facial muscle movement not only boosts overall metabolism and accelerates blood circulation but also activates the throat, maintains normal Eustachian tube function, and helps balance inner and outer ear pressure.

In general, tinnitus may arise as part of age-related hearing decline (presbycusis), leading to hearing loss followed by tinnitus. Alternatively, prolonged exposure to noisy environments may damage hearing and cause hearing loss. When hearing loss occurs, external sounds fail to reach the brain adequately; the brain struggles to adapt to this reduced auditory input, resulting in tinnitus.

Regularly consuming foods that promote blood circulation—such as black fungus (wood ear), Chinese chives, red wine, or yellow rice wine—may help. These “blood-activating” foods dilate blood vessels and improve blood viscosity, supporting healthy microcirculation in the small vessels of the inner ear. We hope this information proves helpful to you.

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