Is it true that the puncture of the earlobe can affect vision?

It is common that, punctures of the ear in a certain place, you can both improve and worsen vision. We decided to check how reasonable such a judgment is.

Information that the puncture of the earlobe at a certain point can both improve and worsen vision can be found in Media, on forums and sites questions And answers. By versions “Kommersant”, a faith in the connection between a punctured ear and vision arose in the Middle Ages: “There was superstition that the puncture of one ear improves vision, which led to the spread of ear piercing among sailors and travelers.” Users Explain This connection is like this: “If you get into the“ point of view ”on the lobe, then vision can worsen and may even strongly.” Official representative in Russia of the Beijing Center for acupuncture and moksotherapy under the World Association of Acupuncture Societies Igor Roganin Explains More details: “After all, having fallen into a point that is responsible for a particular human organ, you can negatively affect his work. No wonder acupuncture has long been popular when they are treated with exposure to these points. In this way, the sick organ can be helped, but normal - harm it if the effect will be provided for a long time, as in the case of earrings. <...> Almost in the center of the lobe, where, as a rule, jewelry is found, there is an eye point. If you set the earring to this point, then you can provoke a long spasm, and as a result, visual acuity will decrease. It is especially fraught with those who have a hereditary predisposition to myopia. Media also bring Such explanations: “There are 11 points on the earlobe associated with the eyes, teeth, tongue, face muscles, inner ear. An unsuccessful puncture can hurt such a point and cause irritation of the body associated with it. And if the ear of Seryozha is not made of noble metal or alloy, irritation may be long, as a result, vision worsens, teeth hurt. ” Before the puncture of the ear in such materials Consult Make a certain "Fell diagnostics."

Impact on points by punctures or other ways (for example, cauterization or electric discharges) refers To the practices of alternative Chinese medicine. This method is called acupuncture, as well as acupuncture, acupuncture, or reflexology, in the case of punctures and Ignipuncture and moksotherapy in the case of cauterization. Countsthat the acupuncture points to which various types of exposure are applied are located on the so -called meridians - the ways of the vital energy of qi, therefore, the effect on them changes the circulation of qi and has a therapeutic and analgesic effect. Diagnostics by FOLLI Represents The method of determining the location of the meridians and points on them. Acupuncture promises eliminate headaches, edema, muscle hypertonicity, vegetative-vascular dystonia (existing As a diagnosis only in the post -Soviet space), gastritis, ulcerative disease of the stomach and duodenum, constipation, bronchial asthma, eczema, psoriasis, night enuresis, hormonal infertility, birth pain, obesity and nicotine dependence. 

At the same time in Most clinical research acupuncture did not show his own effectiveness V placebo-controlled research. For their implementation, scientists used the so -called “false” acupuncture - they produced injections at random points or special needles that did not penetrate the depth agreed upon in acupuncture methods. IN result such an impact participants Assessed The effectiveness of the "false" acupuncture is as high as the "real." Acupuncture methods were also investigated in the framework of Kokrain's reviews. As a result, in particular, evidence of the effectiveness of acupuncture was not revealed Syndrome of the carpal channel (it is also tunnel syndrome) in adults, nor at post -industry incontinence urine, neither in chronic hepatitis b. The efficiency of the use of moksotherapy (cauterization) for Correction of pelvic presentation fetus in childbirth or for reduction of side effects chemo and radiotherapy. All this suggests that there is neither evidence of the effectiveness of such therapy, nor some scientific base for highlighting special points in the body.

Currently, certain achievements of acupuncture in individual patients Explained Only the effect placebo. National Council for Combating Health Fraud (USA) formulates The same: “Acupuncture is an unproven treatment, its theory and practice are based on primitive and bizarre concepts of health and diseases that have nothing to do with scientific knowledge. Studies over the past 20 years have not shown the effectiveness of acupuncture against at least some disease. The effects of acupuncture are probably due to the effect of waiting and other psychological mechanisms. Insurance companies should not under the law cover treatment with acupuncture, and the licenses of those who practice acupuncture must be gradually recalled. ” 

From all this, we can conclude that since the existence of any points of qi energy is not proved by science, then it is impossible to get into them when piercing the earlobe and at least somehow affects this to vision.

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