Tinnitus indicates the subjective sensation experienced upon hearing a noise in one or both ears. The noise may be constant or coming in bouts and may vary in intensity and character. It may sound like a high-pitched whistle, like bees, like an engine running, or like rushing water. Deafness is the failure or loss of hearing.
Sudden deafness occurs abruptly.
The patient often has severe deafness or even loses hearing entirely within an hour or a day. Tinnitus is a difficult condition to treat, the older patients and the longer lasting the condition, the more difficult it will be to treat. Results are better for the Excess type, than the deficiency type. Sudden deafness, tinnitus with loud sound and clearly related to emotional strain, distention sensation and constant ringing in the ear that can not be eliminated by pressing, headache, irritability, thirst, a bitter taste in mouth, red face, constipation. Wiry and rapid Kidney Essence Deficiency Protracted deafness, intermittent tinnitus aggravated by strain and eliminated by pressing.