Eye Care Treatment

Ayurvedic eye Care

Eyes are one of the most important organs in the body. Upkeep of eyes involves many steps. Habits like not continuously staring at screens or monitors, which leads to straining of eyes and ensuring proper lighting while using your eyes are some of the healthy habits. Sleep is also important to ensure eyes are maintained healthy.

The Ayurvedic name for defective eyesight is ‘Drishti Dosha’. Alochaka Pitta is responsible for maintaining eyesight and it weakens with age. A few causes of defective eyesight includes

Entering into water (swimming pool, bath tub, shower etc) after getting exposed to the heat of Sun
Trying hard to see far off objects which are beyond the visual field (strains the eye)

Variations in sleep patterns like ‘sleeping in the day’ and ‘keeping awake during night times’
Excessive and continued weeping (crying, sobbing)Excess Anger , Strain (physical, mental and eye strain)
Injuries to the eye
Excessive indulgence in sexual intercourse
Excessive consumption of sour fermented liquids and foods predominant in sour taste
Excessive consumption of horse gram
Excessive consumption of black gram
Forcible obstruction (withholding) of body reflexes
Excessive sweating
Excessive smoking
Forcible controlling the vomiting reflux or impulse
Forcibly withholding the ‘tear’ reflex
Constantly viewing of minute objects
Excess fomentation to the eye
Excess exposure of eye to smoke or excess smoking
Suppressing urge of vomiting
Suppressing tears
Excess walking in bare foot or foot massage with hot oils or water.
Excess travelling
Exposure to dust

Excess eye exposing to bright light

Ayurvedaic treatment of eye diseases

In Ayurveda, the treatment of eye diseases is done not only by internal medications but also by way of several traditional applications like

Anjana (collyrium application) –It can be done daily for healthy eyes

Aschyothanam:
Nasyam (part of Panchakarma) :
Nethra Tarpana :
Ashchothana (Herbal eye drops) – Mainly used to prevent pain, redness, itching, dryness, irritation in eye. Here medicated drops are put into eyes from 2 inch above.

Bidalaka : Medicated paste is applied over closed eye lids.

Pada abhyanga (foot massage) – It helps to maintain and improve good eye sight.

Pindi: Medicated paste is applied over thin cloth and kept over eyes.
Prakshalana – Eye wash with medicated liquid
Putapakam etc . Ayurvedic ophthalmology is capable of curing several common and chronic eye diseases.

Ayurvedic Medicinal Treatment :

Triphala Ghritha
Maha Triphala Ghritha
Bhrami Ghritha
Saptamrit Lauh
Triphala Guggulu
Jeevanthyadi Ghritha
Amalaki Rasayana – Classical Ayurvedic medicine mainly used improve eye health, relieves eye strain, double vision, blurred vision etc
Chyavanprasha etc

Some of the major Eye Related diseases which can be treated with the help of ayurveda are:

Here we are mentioning Some of the major Eye Related diseases which can be treated with the help of ayurveda

Diabetic Retinopathy

Diabetic retinopathy is the most common diabetic eye disease and a leading cause of blindness. Almost every patient with a long history of uncontrolled diabetes suffers from diabetic retinopathy sooner or later.

Symptoms of diabetic retinopathy:

Blurred vision and gradual vision loss
Floaters
Progressively diminishing vision
Photophobia
Shadows or missing areas of vision
Difficulty seeing at nighttime

Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy:

Lepa over eyes
Nethradhara
Thakradhara
Tharpana (if no active bleeding)
Glaucoma:

Glaucoma is a disease which causes progressive damage in the optic nerves that lead to direct vision loss as a result of increased intra ocular pressure (not always).

Symptoms of Glaucoma:

Pain in the eye ball sometimes with headache
Photophobia (irritation from light)
Floaters (seeing black spots in the field of Vision)
Increases I.O.P.
Vision loss in advanced cases due to damage in optic nerves.

Ayurvedic Treatment of Glaucoma:

Virechana
Nethradhara
Nasya
Takra dhara
Anjana
Aschotanam

Macular Degeneration:

Macular degeneration is a medical condition usually of older adults that results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field because of damage to the retina. It is a major cause of visual impairment in the elderly (>50 years) .

Symptoms of Macular Degeneration:

Blurred vision:
Central scotomas (shadows or missing areas of vision)
Distorted vision (i.e. metamorphopsia) –
Color confusions;
Slow recovery of visual function after exposure to bright light

Treatment of Macular Degeneration:

Virechana
Nethradhara
Lepa over eyes
Tharpana (in dry types)
Thalam
Thakradhara in wet type M.D.
Oil Shirodhara in dry type M.D.

Refractive Errors:

Refractive errors comprise a group of diseases which can be corrected by refractive corrections i.e. by using glasses, or contact lens. These are myopia, hypermetropia, Astigmatism and presbyopia.

Treatment of refractive Errors:

Ayurveda has rejuvenating medicines that neutralize the effect of today’s stressed life style over eyes, strengthening eye muscles, making lens material elastic and thus correcting refractive errors, But there is a limitation to the above said result.

Nethradhara

Anjana
Aschotanam
Nasya
Tharpanam
Ayurvedic Oral Medicines.

Cataract:

Cataract is the most commonly seen disease of old age responsible for highest percentage of blindness worldwide. It is due to the opacity in the lense fibers altering its appearance from crystalline to opaque thus blocking vision.

Symptoms of Cataract:

Hazy vision
Photo phobia
Watering of eyes sometimes
Some may develop glaucoma along with cataract as a complication

Treatment of cataract:

Ayurveda believes that cataract can be reversed if it is diagnosed in initial stage. Timira is the name given to describe all clinical conditions of cataract and its complications. Ayurveda texts also talk about the surgical treatments for mature cataract which was popular in India and worldwide in ancient times

Virechana
Anjana
Aschotana
Medical treatments

Dry Eyes:

Keratitis or Dry eye is a very common problem caused due to the lack of sufficient moisture and lubrication on the eye’s surface.

Symptoms :

The common symptoms of dry eyes is feeling of the burning sensation, persistent dryness and even scratching. Along with these symptoms, the person may feel pain, irritation and continuous redness in the eyes. There are cases where the people even reported the blurred vision and the problem of senstivity towards the light.

Causes of Dry eyes:

Normally seen as a natural ageing process caused due to menopause.
Excessive smoking and over consumption of alcohol.
Over pollution
Due to living in the areas with dust, dry and hot climate.
Diminished tears’ flow
Due to adverse effects of medication.

Treatment:

Under this, the treatment is carried out in a manner as given below:

Initially the drops of Ghee are instilled into the eyes. A gentle massage with triphla ghee is done around and over the eyes. Netra Tarpan- a popular ayurvedic procedure is carried out to give good relief.

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