Dark Circles or Bags Under the Eyes

Black or dark circles or rings under or around your eyes can be caused by fatigue, diet, stress, and genetic factors. Genetic inheritance is the most common cause.

• Fatigue, lack of sleep: Tiredness, not getting enough sleep, not sleeping well - these can all can cause your skin to be more pale and transluscent - allowing the blood underneath the skin to be more visible and look darker.
• Nutrition: A poorly balanced diet, lack of nutrients, poor quality of food can can contribute to the darkened skin under the eyes.
• Stress: A too fast-paced lifestyle, especially if you spend long hours on the computer can contribute to black bags under your eyes - perhaps mostly because you don't get enough sleep.
• Heredity: Like varicose veins, dark circles under the eyes are often an inherited genetic trait. If you have them, probably your siblings or parents have them. The skin under the eye is very thin. When blood passes through the large veins close to the surface of the skin it can produce a bluish tint. The more transparent your skin, also an inherited trait, the darker the circles appear.

• Exposure to the Sun: Even in darker skinned people, exposure to sunlight, especially during the summer months, can cause a higher-than-normal level of skin pigmentation (melanin) under the eyes. People get suntans because exposure to the sun increases the natural pigmentation of the skin and draws that pigmentation to the surface. The same principle applies to the skin under the eyes.
• Allergies, Asthma and Eczema: Any condition that you have that causes your eyes to itch can contribute to darker circles under the eyes because rubbing or scratching the skin can darken the skin. Hay fever sufferers particularly will notice under-eye "smudges" during the height of the allergy season. Some food allergies can also cause the area under the eyes to appear darker.
• Medications: Any medications that you are taking that causes blood vessels to dilate, can cause circles under the eyes to darken. Because the skin under the eyes is very delicate, any increase blood flow shows through the skin.
• Pregnancy and Menstruation: The skin can also become more pale during pregnancy and menstruation, which again allows the underlying veins under the eyes to become more visible.
• Age: If you have a propensity to have dark circles under you eyes, as you grow older, they are likely to become more noticeable and permanent. Excess folds of skin under the eyes will also make dark circles more pronounced.
• Adrenal exhaustion
• Kidney energetic deficiency - recognized in Chinese medicine.

• VisionTone and Purple Gold Cream: According to Chinese medicine, dark circles under the eyes is often due to what is referred to as "Kidney Deficiency". This does not necessarily relate to the Kidney organs, but more to the Kidney "meridian", or flow of energy. VisionTone is an excellent Kidney tonic. Kidney deficiency can be caused by a number of reasons including: lack of sleep, chronic stress, poor diet, lack of exercise, excessive drinking, smoking, drugs, etc.
• Eight hours of sleep is a must for all of us, especially for people having dark circles under their eyes.
• Diet: Eat a whole-foods, plant-based diet, drink plenty of water (eight 8-ounce glasses daily), and avoid alcohol, coffee, tea and caffeinated soft drinks. These go a long way in preventing bags, circles and wrinkles. Supplement your diet with Dr. Grossman's Whole Food Multivitamin and a good green drink such as Renewal Greens.
• Acupressure: Another circulation-boosting treatment is acupressure. This is an easy exercise that you can also do every day. Close your eyes and gently press your ring finger underneath one eye, moving from the inside corner to the outside corner. Do this 10 to 15 times. Then repeat on the other eye.
• See some home remedies