What Are the Benefits of Eye Exercises for Nearsightedness?

Eye exercises are a kind of health exercises for the eyes. The purpose is to massage the eye points, adjust the blood circulation of the eyes and the head, adjust muscles, improve eye fatigue, and prevent eye diseases such as myopia.

Eye exercises

Eye exercises are a kind of health exercises for the eyes. The purpose is to massage the eye points, adjust the blood circulation of the eyes and the head, adjust muscles, improve eye fatigue, and prevent eye diseases such as myopia.

Studies have shown that eye exercises are massage methods based on ancient Chinese medical massage and meridian theory combined with sports and medical treatment. It massages the acupuncture points around the eyes, makes the blood in the eyes unblocked, and improves nerve nutrition.

On August 30, 2018, the Ministry of Education and other eight departments issued a notice on the "Implementation Plan for Comprehensive Prevention and Control of Myopia in Children and Adolescents." ^[1]

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Eye exercises are a comprehensive massage method based on the theory of medical massage and meridians in the motherland, combined with sports medical treatment. It massages the acupuncture points around the eyes to make the qi and blood in the eyes unblock and improve the nutrition of the nerves, so as to eliminate the tension or cramps of the ciliary muscles. Practice shows that eye exercises

The new version of eye exercises is based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine meridians, after modifying the original two chapters, and replacing one of them, the total duration is still 5

Excessive use of eyes for a long time makes the eyes often in a state of tension, and over time it becomes myopia. Eye exercises are based on the principles that cause myopia, and are comprehensive measures to prevent myopia by using methods such as massage and acupressure in medicine. In the entire human body, the meridian system is similar to the blood circulation system and is also distributed throughout the body. If a disorder occurs in a certain area, disease will occur. The acupoint massage of eye exercises is to eliminate obstacles and clear the meridians, which belongs to physical therapy. This weak acupoint massage stimulation can strengthen the metabolism of the whole tissue through the reflection of the nerves, improve and enhance blood circulation, eliminate and adjust eye tension, and restore the physiological functions of the human body, thereby preventing myopia.

First, usually pay attention to nutrition, eat more fresh vegetables, not partial.

2. When reading a book or reading a newspaper, keep a distance of 30 cm and a 45-degree angle between the eyes and the paper, and avoid using the eyes for a long time at a close distance.

3. Avoid reading books and newspapers in cars, places with insufficient light or strong light. When reading books, the light source should be evenly projected from behind or obliquely to the left.

4. Avoid using unclean towels or public face washing equipment to prevent infection.

Fifth, get enough sleep and outdoor activities, and often look at green plants.

6. Do 3-4 eye exercises every day.

7. Don't watch TV, play computer, or game console for a long time.

The Yijinjing eye exercises are different from the eye exercises that we exercise in school. You don't need to massage your eyes and the surrounding acupoints with your hands. You can exercise your eyes and the surrounding tissues tightly and loosely with your eyes closed. . In this way, the muscles, blood vessels, nerves, meridians and other tissues of the eye and its surrounding tissues can be pulled tightly and loosely, which is helpful to improve blood circulation of the eye, eliminate eye fatigue, improve vision and prevent myopia. .

The first section closed eyes, closed eyes, closed eyes, breathing naturally. Then try your best to keep your eyes open in the closed state restore try to close your eyes restore. Make a total of four eight beats (the same below).

In the second quarter, close your eyes and look left and right. With your eyes closed, try your best to look left and right back restore look hard to the right and back restore.

In the third quarter, close your eyes and look up and down. With your eyes closed, try your best to look upwards restore try to look downwards restore.

Section 4: Close your eyes and look diagonally 1 With your eyes closed, try your best to look upwards to the left restore try to look downwards to the right restore.

(1) Rubbing the face. Eyes to fever. Then put both hands on the eyes (Laogong point is right in the middle of the eyeballs) three times.

(2) In the upper, lower, left, right, and middle of the eye, knead each clockwise 36 times and counterclockwise 24 times, and finally 90 times clockwise and counterclockwise 60 times in the middle of the eye (the abdomen must be penetrated with the thumb, Tolerable is the degree. Remember that the order of 36.24 in the top, bottom, left, and right is 90.60 in the middle).

(3) Acupoints: rubbing around the eye sockets first and left and right sides 36 times each time. Push Yin Tang. Open yin and yang. Tap. Inside. Outside eyes. Fish waist. On the ball, Jianming, Guangming and other points in the eyes for 1-3 minutes.

On July 16, 2012, a "Siege" eye exercise exercise "useless theory" Weibo posted by netizens made the topic of eye exercise exercises again the focus of attention: "Eye exercise exercises have harmed Chinese teenagers for 49 years and massaged acupoints In the past 49 years, the myopia rate of Chinese youth has risen to the second in the world, reaching 360 million people. Eye exercises cannot improve eyesight. Many students use dirty hand massage to cause red eye disease and eye infections. "

Ophthalmologists at Nanjing Third Class Hospital said that eye exercises need to be further verified for the prevention of myopia, but correct eye exercises can relieve visual fatigue to a certain extent.

Professor Yu Gang, director of the Department of Ophthalmology, Beijing Children's Hospital: The long-term persistence of eye exercises can promote blood circulation around the eyes, relieve eye fatigue, and protect the eyes. He believes that the statement of improving vision through eye exercises is absolute, but it cannot be denied that the eye-protecting effects of eye exercises. Eye exercises cannot be suppressed at all, nor can they be blindly admired without data. Yu Gang pointed out that China has promoted eye exercises for nearly 50 years, and so far there has not been a multi-center, large sample, meticulous comparative study and observation results, and there is no comprehensive scientific summary. Therefore, the effect of eye exercises on the prevention and treatment of myopia still needs further verification. ^[2]

TCM Eye Massage 1: Cover Your Eyes

Close your eyes and count to 8 first, then relax and rest to 8 and repeat it several times. Then keep your eyes wide open for 8 seconds and repeat three times. Close your eyes, half-grip your palms on your eyes, be careful not to touch your eyes, and relax your eyes by imagining the darkness.

TCM Eye Massage II: Make your eyes go round

Sit up straight with your eyes straight ahead and keep your head still. The right arm is fully straightened to the right, raised to the height of the shoulders, keeping the arm straight and fully extended, moving in an arc toward the middle of the head, while swinging the index finger, following the movement of the index finger, let the eyeball roll to the far right first, and then Go up to the top of the eye socket, then to the left, then to the bottom of the eye socket.

The eyeball stays in each position for one second, doing 6 times at the beginning, and gradually increasing to 10 to 12 times. Then repeat the action with your left hand to make the eyeball roll in the opposite direction. When you turn a lot of times, your eyes tend to be sour, but after you open your eyes, you will feel very clear.

TCM Eye Massage III: Eyes Directly

Sit up straight, keep your head still, stretch your right arm forward as far as you can, palm up, index finger extended and upright, then move your forearm with your finger to your nose, follow the movement of your arm and finger with your eyes, and touch your nose with your index finger During the process, keep your eyes on your index finger.

Then the arms and fingers returned to the starting position, and the eyes followed. Do it 6 times a day at the beginning and gradually increase to 10 to 12 times a day.

On August 30, 2018, the Ministry of Education and other eight departments issued a notice on the "Implementation Plan for Comprehensive Prevention and Control of Myopia in Children and Adolescents." Notification requirements: Adhere to eye protection measures such as eye exercises. Primary and secondary schools should strictly organize all students to do eye exercises every morning and afternoon, carefully implement the eye exercises procedures, and remind students to keep their hands clean before doing eye exercises. Teachers should teach students to correctly grasp the writing postures, urge students to sit upright when reading and writing, supervise and correct their bad reading and writing postures at any time, and remind students to comply with the "one foot, one punch, one inch" requirements. Teachers need to understand their vision when they see signs that they cannot see the blackboard clearly and often rub their eyes.

It is indeed a very good way to enforce the eye exercises system in schools. As long as you persist, you can curb the overall increase in myopia. However, today's eye exercises have many problems in the theoretical basis, qualitative positioning, implementation systems, methods and methods, and evaluation of actual effects. Therefore, bold and innovative reforms must be carried out on the original basis.

The eye exercises use three effective exercise modes of pressing, turning and overlooking, and simultaneously function, which greatly improves the effectiveness of the eye exercises.

Press: The acupoints to be massaged are eye-acupoints, Sibai acupoints, temples, head veins and earlobe eyes.

Turning: Rolling eyes is a very effective way of eye exercises. Compared with massage alone, rolling eyes alone has a better effect of eliminating eye fatigue, and it can precisely control the amplitude of the rotation. Blood circulation throughout the body.

Gaze: Gaze is the most effective eye exercises in three ways, because the eyes are the result of the evolution under the sun's rays, facing the window, looking at the eye according to the principle of the small hole mirror and double image, alternately staring at the near and far points Exercise plays a good role in improving vision.

For schools, eye exercises are "indoor exercises"; twice a day, wind and rain have to be done. The time is very short, only 5 minutes each time, and there is no major movement, otherwise the classroom will not work.

Eye exercises should be updated and changed frequently. Eye exercises exercises should be held frequently to see which schools and classes are more innovative in order to make students interested in doing eye exercises. Conditional schools can promote the use of automatic eye exercises for eye exercises.

The student is short-sighted, and the parents will count on the doctor, but the doctor can only help you correct vision, but not protect your vision. Parents also believe that this is the teacher's responsibility, and the teacher certainly has the responsibility, but the main responsibility lies with the parents. Letting parents bear the responsibilities they bear is a key issue in the process of protecting students 'eyesight. It is also the biggest problem. Parents often wait for students' vision to see the blackboard before they can seek medicine. Parents should require students to do eye exercises in a timely manner after using the eyes at close range to eliminate visual fatigue.

The main body of student's vision protection is the school, and the key to student's vision protection is the parents. In the current situation where teachers 'knowledge of vision protection is quite lacking and parents know little about it, it is particularly important for schools to strengthen the education of students' vision protection knowledge.