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Where is the pressure point for ear pain?

I am a 28 year old male. I want to know where is the pressure point for ear pain?

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Each ear pain is of diff origin therefore the treatment has no standard approach
Try rubbing around your ears to relieve your ear pressure.
It depends on what is going on. I encourage you to book a session with your practitioner of choice to get help with relief.
I am intrigued. What is the pressure point and what is supposed to do?
You can massage your ear lobe and behind your ear lobe.
Unfortunately, it will be difficult to find a pressure point for ear pain as ear pain can be caused by one of the many nerves that innervate the ear. One of those nerves is the vagus nerve that goes down into the abdomen. Sometimes patients with problems in their abdomen or kidney can have ear pain because of that problem.
You can do local points on SJ GB and ST meridians as well as distal kidney points.
Where in/on your ear? You should go see a doctor first.
Here is the information you need to know:
https://www.healthline.com/health/pressure-points-for-ears#pressure-points
There are no pressure points in acupuncture, so I can't help you with that. There's an acupuncture point right behind the ear lobe that can help with ear problems, so you might try pressing on it throughout the day.
That depends on why you are feeling pain in your ear. To learn the most accurate and effective point, I suggest you visit your acupuncturist.
Many points around the ears can relieve ear pain. To learn them, please set up a zoom appointment with your local acupuncturist.
The acupuncture around the ear.
Recently I've been seeing a lot of questions like this - people either wanting to know a specific acupuncture point for a western disease or wanting a specific pressure point for a western disease. The problem is: this isn't how acupuncture and Chinese medicine work. There is no one point for a given western disease, in fact acupuncture technically doesn't treat western diseases at all.

Acupuncture is coupled to the Chinese diagnostic system which functions in a different way relative to conventional medicine. There is some cross-over between western disease names and the methods we use for diagnosis, but at it's core the Chinese diagnostic method is looking at your problem from the context of your entire system, not just from the context of the isolated sub-system that may be having a problem and causing a symptom like ear pain. In short, Chinese medicine does not primarily focus on symptom management, we focus on root cause treatment.

Multiple people could walk in to my office tomorrow all complaining of ear pain and, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, they all might be experiencing ear pain for different reasons. Those different reasons have different treatments. Sometimes there's overlap in the points we might use, but generally speaking different root causes have different treatments. In other words: without seeing and diagnosing you, it's very difficult to provide one point or a set of points which may be useful in your situation.

If you've been to your primary care and ruled out more serious issues as a root cause, then acupuncture might be a good choice for you. Go to NCCAOM.org and use their "Find a Practitioner" lookup to get a list of local, board certified providers. Call a few of these and see if there's anyone who either specializes in pain management or has a good track record with ear/auditory issues.