What is the reason for long-term dark circles? How to solve dark circles

Young people nowadays can’t avoid staying up late, which leads to dark circles under the eyes. But some people say that they have dark circles even without staying up late. What is the reason? I will provide you with the solution below.

Causes of long-term dark circles:

Kidney deficiency

This type of dark circles appears for a long time and is dark in color. At the same time, the face becomes pale or dark, the expression is tired, and the spirit is low.

This type of kidney deficiency is mostly caused by insufficient kidney essence or kidney yang deficiency. Most of these people have an unhealthy lifestyle for a long time. For example, they have excessive sex, which depletes kidney essence. The black color of the kidney floats on top, so their eyes are dull and their eye circles are dark.

Everyone says: Chinese medicine is too mysterious? What is the black part of the kidney floating on top? Is this true or false?

Don’t disbelieve it? This is what the ancients summarized, but it seems to be correct today. For example, when certain kidney-related hormones, such as adrenaline, are lacking, many parts of the body will become pigmented and darken.

However, we never judge physical problems based on a single symptom. We connect these symptoms together to form a "symptom" and then determine whether there is a physical problem.

Besides dark circles under the eyes, what other symptoms may people with yang deficiency or insufficient kidney essence have?

The most important thing is that I feel listless, always want to sleep, and my eyes are dull. Secondly, there is fear of cold, cold limbs, clear and long urination, sore and weak waist, easy edema, pale tongue, thick white tongue coating, and slow and weak pulse.

I once saw a diabetic patient, a middle-aged man, who had a dark complexion, especially dark circles under his eyes, and a pale tongue with a thick white coating. The trend of thought at that time was that when people talked about diabetes, they would think of raw rehmannia, Scrophularia, pollen, and Pueraria. They believed that thirst was a sign of yin deficiency and that yin needed to be nourished. So this person used a lot of such prescriptions, but they were ineffective.

I would still recommend you to use Jinkui Shenqi Pills, as this is due to insufficient kidney yang. Jinkui Shenqi Pills was originally created for this situation. Later, his wife told me that his condition had improved significantly.

Some patients with allergic rhinitis have dark circles under their eyes because the nose and eyes are close to each other. However, at its root, allergic rhinitis is mostly caused by insufficient Yang Qi, so the root cause is still kidney Yang deficiency.

For this kind of dark circles caused by kidney deficiency, the first thing to do is to take medicine for treatment, because the disease is usually quite serious, so taking medicine for treatment is necessary, and then you can control your lifestyle and change your living habits.

Bruising

Blood stasis means poor blood circulation, but as we know, there are abundant capillaries around the eyes, so if there is blood stasis around the eyes, dark circles will appear.

Western medicine says that the blood flow in the veins is too slow, the red blood cells in the skin around the eyes are not getting enough oxygen, too much carbon dioxide and metabolic waste accumulate in the veins, causing chronic hypoxia, darker blood, stagnation, and pigmentation of the eyes.

In traditional Chinese medicine, an important indicator of blood stasis is dark and dry eye sockets, and dark spots on the face. This is a condition that occurs when blood stasis reaches a certain degree. At the same time, the lips will become darker in color, memory will decline, the throat will be dry, but not really thirsty, there will be many red or blue blood streaks on the surface of the body, and even pain in certain places.

Such women have very little menstrual flow with black blood clots, and may even suffer from long-term dysmenorrhea. Some people even have severe menstrual irregularities. In this case, you should take about two to three grams of Panax notoginseng powder every day to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.

I found that some middle-aged and elderly women with qi and blood deficiency will have this situation. At this time, they should nourish the blood first and then remove blood stasis. Otherwise, the effect of simply removing blood stasis will not be good.

In the later stages of some serious diseases, blood stasis may occur, which can also cause dark circles under the eyes. For example, patients with long-term abnormal liver function and liver enlargement often have dark circles under their eyes. About 20% of patients with liver disease have pigmentation in exposed areas, such as around the eye sockets and on the face, which appear as dark circles. For example, some patients with kidney disease may also have dark circles under their eyes, which is also related to blood stasis and kidney deficiency.

Sometimes when I am giving a lecture, I go down to help everyone look at the tongue. In fact, many people don’t stick out their tongue, but I know that they have blood stasis. Why? Because it was written on his face: pale complexion, many dark spots on his face, and two dry and dark circles under his eyes.

This kind of dark circles caused by blood stasis also need to be treated with medication. If you have serious diseases such as liver disease, you need symptomatic treatment. This situation is generally difficult to eliminate by yourself.

Lack of sleep

Lack of sleep prevents the blood vessels in the eyes from resting, causing continuous congestion, which will eventually cause dark circles. These dark circles are like smoky makeup, which are looming and not firm and solid.

This type of dark circles is relatively easy to treat. You don’t need to take any medicine. Just get enough sleep! However, don’t underestimate the dark circles caused by lack of sleep, because generally short-term lack of sleep will not cause such problems. If dark circles appear, it means that lack of sleep is very serious!

Most of these people are young people who stay up late for a long time and play games and chat at night. This situation is more common.

Moreover, lack of sleep will also consume kidney essence, leading to insufficient kidney qi and blood stasis. This is a chain reaction and a bad start.

So, friends who are still sending WeChat messages late at night, please be careful! First look at your dark circles, and then think: health first! This is not a joke!

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The unavoidable fast pace, environmental pollution, proliferation of computers, poor sleep quality and other conditions in modern life accelerate the aging of the thin and fragile skin around the eyes. Eye masks can eliminate eye skin fatigue, increase the softness and elasticity of the skin around the eyes, lighten dark circles, delay eye skin aging, and have a good effect in preventing and treating eye wrinkles and eye bags.

Potato Eye Mask

【Ingredients】1 potato.
[Preparation] Wash the potatoes, peel them, and cut them into slices about 2 mm thick for later use.
[Usage] After cleaning the eyes, apply the potato slices to the eyes for 5 to 10 minutes, then wash with clean water.

【Beauty Effect】Lightens dark circles and makes the skin around the eyes soft and radiant. You can also wash the potatoes, peel them, cut them into pieces, put them in a blender and blend them into a paste. Apply it on your eyes for 10 minutes and then wash them off.

Apple Eye Mask

【Ingredients】1 apple.

[Preparation] Wash the apples, slice them and set aside.
[Usage] After cleaning the eyes, apply apple slices to the eyes for 10 to 15 minutes, then wash with clean water.

【Beauty Effect】Lightens dark circles and makes the eye skin delicate and tender.
【Tip】Apples can be mixed with potatoes. First, wash the apples, peel and remove the seeds. Wash, peel and cut potatoes into cubes. Mix apple and potato cubes into a paste, apply it to the eyes for 10 minutes, and then wash it off with clean water.

Honey Eye Mask

[Ingredients] 10ml honey, appropriate amount of milk, 1 pair of cotton pads.
[Preparation] Mix honey and milk, then soak a cotton pad.
[How to use] After cleaning the eyes, apply the soaked cotton pad to the eyes for about 10 minutes and then rinse with clean water.
【Beauty Effect】Moisturizes the skin and reduces dark circles.

Yogurt Eye Mask

[Materials] Appropriate amount of yogurt and a pair of cotton pads.
[Preparation] Soak the cotton pad in yogurt and set aside.
[How to use] After cleaning the eyes, apply the soaked cotton pad to the eyes for about 10 minutes and then rinse with clean water.
【Beauty Effect】Moisturizes the skin and reduces dark circles.

Papaya Eye Mask

[Ingredients] 50 grams of papaya pulp.
[Preparation] Put the papaya pulp into a container and mash it.
[Usage] After cleaning the eyes, apply the mashed melon pulp on the skin under the eyes. After 10 to 15 minutes, wash it off with clean water.

[Beauty Effect] Relieves eye fatigue and reduces eye bags.

Egg Eye Mask

[Ingredients] 1 egg, 1 vitamin E capsule.
[Preparation] Break the eggs and keep the egg white. Prick the vitamin E capsule and mix it with the egg white and stir well.

[How to use] After cleaning the eyes, use a soft brush to dip the eye mask and apply it to the eye skin. After 10 to 15 minutes, wash it off with clean water.
【Beauty Effect】Tightens skin and reduces eye wrinkles.

Egg Honey Eye Mask

[Ingredients] 1 egg, 10ml honey, a small amount of olive oil.
[Preparation] Break the eggs and keep the yolk. Combine honey, olive oil and egg yolk and stir until well combined.
[How to use] After cleaning the eyes, use a soft brush to dip the eye mask and apply it to the eye skin. After 10 to 15 minutes, wash it off with clean water.
【Beauty Effect】Moisturizes the skin around the eyes and prevents the formation of wrinkles around the eyes.