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Alternative Treatments Dissolve Cataracts, Prevent their Return, and Help to Avoid Surgery

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By: JB Bardot
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Surgery is usually the only option offered by conventional medicine to people with cataracts; however, there are alternative treatments that may dissolve cataracts preventing their return. Cataracts occur when the eye’s natural lens becomes cloudy, causing vision loss. They are most common in people over 40 and are the main cause of blindness worldwide, according to All About Vision. More than 22 million Americans suffer from cataracts with that number expected to rise to over 30 million by 2020.

Symptoms include blurring of the vision, reduction in night vision, “glare” when looking at artificial light or sunlight, and eventually blindness.

Experts don’t know what causes cataracts, only that the protein in the lens of the eye begins to clump causing small areas of cloudiness. Some studies suggest that cataracts may develop after the eyes are repeatedly exposed to ultraviolet light and radiation, such as that emitted by computers. Certain risk factors are diabetes, taking steroids, tranquilizers or diuretics, using HRT, smoking and heavy metal toxicity.

Although there is no hard scientific research, anecdotal evidence indicates the efficacy of several natural substances in preventing and reducing the severity of cataracts.

Pascalite, bentonite clay

Pascalite is a creamy white-colored form of bentonite clay found only in the Big Horn mountains of Wyoming. It’s classified as a calcium bentonite/montmorillonite and was considered a sacred healing substance to the Indians. Pascalite is alleged to have a very high energy level, and its mineral content has been found to heal a wide variety of ailments ranging from brown recluse spider bites, to skin necroses and digestive tract ulcers. Although it may seem far-fetched to some, cataract patients have reported that applying the clay paste to their eyelids and making eye drops from water filtered through the clay has helped to dissolve their cataracts.

Cineraria Maritima

Cineraria maratima, or dusty miller, is a common herb whose juice is known to dissolve cataracts. India’sCentral Council for Research in Homeopathy, Ministry of Health and Family Welfarehas noted thatCinerariatincture can prevent cataracts from developing. Additionally, homeopathic doctor William Boericke, M.D. notes in his Materia Medica with Repertory that Cineraria tincture may reverse existing cataracts. To obtain the full effects of this herb, the mother tincture must be used diluted in saline water. Commercial products are not effective.

Homeopathy

Homeopathic opthamologist, doctor Ed Kondrot, M.D. discusses the first article written about using homeopathy for cataracts. It was published in 1891 by A. B. Norton. The study examined 295 cataract patients, of which 100 were treated with homeopathic medicine for more than a three-month period. Improvement was found in in 58 percent of the participants. Kondrot briefly describes the three homeopathic remedies used in the study.

Calcarea phosphoricum is indicated when there are headaches and eye pains especially in and around the right eye. Patients may also feel a sensation of stiffness around the eyes.

Sepia may be indicated if the patient complains of the sensation of weakness in the eyes and the symptoms worsen as evening approaches. The eyelids may twitch and there may be sharp pains. People needing Sepia may feel better during daytime hours and when eating.

Causticum may be indicated for patients experiencing a feeling of grittiness or sand in the eyes. The eyelids may feel heavy and the eyes feel better when closed. Patients may report feeling pressure in the eyes, burning and itching, as well as having light sensitivity and seeing flashes of light.

For best results in treating cataracts with homeopathy, see a knowledgeable homeopath who will take your case and treat you holistically, not just your cataracts

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Blurred Vision? Eye Doctor Myths Exposed – Learn How to Exercise Your Eye Muscles for Restoring Healthy Vision and Eliminating Prescription Glasses

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By: Mike Adams
Source: NaturalNews.com

You’re probably familiar with all sorts of mythologies promoted as “truisms” in modern medicine: Flu vaccines prevent the flu (they actually don’t), CT scans are harmless (they aren’t), chemotherapy works to save lives from cancer (it actually causes cancer), and so on. There are all sorts of falsehoods in dentistry, too: Mercury fillings are safe for you! (They aren’t.) Gum health has nothing to do with nutrition! (It does.) Cavities can only be treated by drilling, filling and billing! (Often just a money-making scam.)

But did you also know that there are lies and mythologies promoted by eye doctors, too?

Here’s a real whopper that’s told to almost everyone: The reason you need glasses when you get older is because — get this — your eyeball changes its shape!

The only way your eyeballs change shape is if your skull gets cracked

This “eyeball changes its shape” con is a clever scam because it convinces tens of millions of people to buy high-priced prescription glasses each year, usually from the very same vision centers that promote this total quackery. If you just ponder it for a moment, you’ll quickly realize how ludicrous the explanation really is. How can your eyeball change its shape when your eye SOCKET is made of bone?

Think about it. For your eyeball to get “longer” as they often tell you, your very skull would have to alter its bone structure. And while that most certainly happens in infants and children, the human skull doesn’t keep shifting around when you’re an adult. Unless you’re run over by a truck or something, anyway, in which case blurred vision should be expected.

No, the real problem with the vision of most people is not that “your eyeball is getting longer” (ridiculous!) but rather that your lens muscles are getting flabby and out of shape!

How your lens muscles gets flabby and out of shape

Your iris is a muscle that controls your pupil, which is like the aperture of a camera lens. Its job is to regulate the amount of light entering the eye. The iris is not our concern here because we’re more interested in the muscles that alter the shape of your lens.

Those muscles are part of what’s called the ciliary body of your eye. The ciliary body contains muscles that, in real time, alter the curvature of your eye lens to achieve the proper focus of whatever scene you are observing. “Proper focus” means altering the curvature of your lens so that the rays of light entering your eye fall on your retina with pinpoint accuracy.

As any photographer well knows, your focus must be altered when viewing something right in front of you (a near object) versus something far away (a far object). In a camera, this change in focus is achieved by altering the distance between two lenses contained in what is commonly called a “camera lens” (it’s actually multiple lenses), but in the human eye, this is achieved by changing the shape of the lens through the contraction or relaxation of the ciliary muscles.

You probably never noticed yourself doing this because you don’t feel your ciliary muscles working, but they achieve this focus for you thousands of times a day, automatically and without any effort on your part.

Some people (like myself) have achieved conscious control over these muscles, and we can consciously choose to alter the focus of our eyes at any moment, regardless of what scene we’re looking at. But for most people, the function is their ciliary muscles is involuntary. (I’m in my 40′s and continue to have perfect vision, never needing contact lenses or glasses. I also boost my vision with nutrition such as astaxanthin, lutein and zeaxanthin supplements.)

How to strengthen your ciliary muscles that control your eye lenses

Like any muscle, the ciliary muscles can become weak. How does a muscle become weak? From lack of exercise, of course. If you want strong legs, you need to walk and run from time to time, right? Well, if you want a strong, functioning ciliary muscle set, you need to alternate your vision between near objects and far objects so that these muscles are challenged to stay strong. This also increases the flexibility (range of motion) of your eye lenses (sort of like yoga for your eyes).

Now here’s the real kicker in all this: Most people in modern society never view anything far away anymore! They don’t live out in the country, in other words, so they’re not looking at something a mile away. No mountains are even visible in most cities, and peoples’ vision is focused entirely on things that are close. So their ciliary muscles are “locked” in a state of constant contraction. This causes these muscles to tighten, just like your leg muscles if you never stretch out from time to time.

This is all made even worse by the television set — or perhaps your computer monitor. Today’s population spends so much time viewing mobile texting devices, cell phones, portable gaming devices and computer monitors that it’s amazing their ciliary muscles have any range of motion at all.

Sooner or later, after a lack of exercise (i.e. focusing on things at various distances), your ciliary muscles get flabby while also losing range of motion and then your eye lenses can’t achieve the focus they’re supposed to. So instead of the light rays striking your retina where they’re supposed to, they may strike a point inside your eyeball a quarter inch in front of your retina instead (as an example, or in other cases it may be some distance behind your retina, which also causes blurred vision). This is where eye doctors get their ridiculous idea that “your eyeballs are too long!”

That’s stupid. Your eyeballs aren’t “too long.” That’s just some mythology dreamed up by vision doctors to sell you more glasses. No, unless you’re a mutant or something, the real problem is that your ciliary muscles are too weak and lack range of motion to alter the curvature of your lenses.

This problem, fortunately, can often be solved with simple exercises.

(By the way, it should also be obvious from this that the very act of wearing contacts or wearing glasses makes your eye problem worse because it allows your ciliary muscles to stop working, relying on the artificial lenses of your glasses to do that work for you. In much the same way that taking insulin makes diabetes worse over the long haul, wearing glasses also makes your vision worse over time…)

How to exercise your eyeballs and help restore healthy vision

So what if there were a way to exercise your eyeballs and restore the strength and range of motion of your ciliary muscles? Would that restore normal vision?

For many people, YES! Not for everyone, of course. There are other causes of poor vision, such as cataracts, neurological damage (aspartame!), cross-linked protein rigidity of the lens itself (poor nutrition) and so on. But in a surprisingly large number of cases, healthy vision can be restored through simple exercises that you can do at home, in just a few minutes a day, using only your eyes and a simple tool.

That simple tool is a pair of pinhole glasses. They’re like exercise machines for your eyes. You simply wear them for a few minutes a day, then walk around and look at stuff.

How pinhole glasses exercise your ciliary muscles and help restore normal vision

Looking through pinhole glasses, as simple as it sounds, causes the ciliary body of your eyes to engage in adaptive exercise that increases the range of motion of your ciliary muscles which control your lenses. This happens because the pinhole glasses are made with hundreds of tiny holes that change the light entering your eyes from an overpowering mass of light rays to a collection of lower-intensity, distinct light rays that effectively give your eyes a more “organized” pattern on which to focus. There’s probably a more technical explanation for all this, of course, but the practical upshot is that all sorts of people who suffer from vision problems — myopia, hyperopia, presbyopia, astigmatism, computer vision syndrome, and so on — often report instantly improved clarity of vision when wearing these pinhole glasses.

It’s not magic, it’s just physics. If you force your eye lens muscles to adapt by challenging them, they will usually respond with improved function over time (just like building leg strength by walking or jogging).

Even better, many people report ongoing improvements in their vision even after taking off these pinhole glasses. Looking through the pinholes, you see,exercises the muscles that control the shape of your lens, and as those muscles become stronger (over a period of several days and weeks), they become more capable of focusing light in the proper place on your retina. This means no more blurry vision.

It’s the same principle as doing pull-ups to get a stronger upper body, or walking up flights of stairs to build stronger leg muscles. Your eye lenses are controlled by muscles, and like any muscle in your body, those muscles need to be challenged in order to stay strong and fully functional — and to restore their full, healthy range of motion.

I find it interesting, by the way, that some people would rather have crutches than restore their normal healthy function. Have you ever seen those people zipping around in electric scooters at the grocery store? Many of those people used to be able to walk just fine! But then they started using the scooters as a convenience, and now — after a few months of that — their leg muscles have atrophied to the point where they can’t walk! Prescription glasses do the same thing to your eyes. Once you start using them, your ciliary muscles atrophy to the point where you need those glasses just to see clearly.

The vision industry, not surprisingly, makes money off consumer ignorance. It’s not in their interests to teach people how to restore your own healthy vision without needing prescription glasses. This is the same way that the pharmaceutical industry doesn’t want you to prevent disease because they make more money when you stay sick!

The safest and most affordable way to improve vision for many

Pinhole glasses are a safe and affordable way to take responsibility for your eye health and potentially avoid costly and inconvenient contact lenses or glasses forever. These pinhole glasses cost about the same as a pair of sunglasses at the grocery store, and they’re not medical devices at all, so they need no prescription. They contain no lenses themselves, either.

Safety note: Do not wear pinhole glasses while driving or operating heavy machinery such as an airplane, a military humvee or a wrecking ball crane. These glasses partially obscure vision and should be used solely as exercise devices in a safe environment like your home.

They don’t work for every case of vision impairment, of course, as there are many causes for blurred vision. But they work remarkably well for most people who try them. And there’s no risk in trying, since you can return them to our store if they don’t work for you, so there’s zero risk in finding out if your own vision problem might be partially or fully resolved by simply exercising your eyes.

We’ve heard countless success stories from people wearing these simple devices. Try them yourself to see how they might help you! And remember, our satisfaction guarantee means there’s no risk in trying these to see how they might help you live with stronger, more flexible eye muscles.

Zero-cost options you can achieve on your own

Another way to approach this is to simply exercise the range of motion of your ciliary muscles by alternating between focusing on close objects versus far away objects (such as the horizon). This is most easily accomplished from inside your home, near a window. Simply look at something on your desk, then look at something outside your window that’s far, far away (ideally, at the horizon). Alternate this process several times, then rest your eyes, and then repeat. Do this daily for a few minutes each day.

With added nutritional support for eye health (lutein, zeaxanthin, astaxanthin and so on), these exercises can, over time, enhance the range of motion of your ciliary muscles and eye lenses. With these exercises, you may discover that you are able to reduce the intensity of your prescription glasses, step by step, until one day you don’t need them at all.

The pinhole glasses may help accelerate this process even more, in much the same way that working out with weights is a faster way to build muscle strength than working out with no weights at all.

The most important point in all this is to realize that blurred vision is not some sort of permanent eye damage but usually just a functional aberration that can often be resolvedthrough training. In much the same way that physical therapy can help people rebuild functional muscle mass in their legs, arms or torso, eye exercises can help rebuild functional strength in your eyes.

It’s the greatest secret of the eyeglasses industry: Many people don’t need eye glasses! Many people don’t need contact lenses! What they need is eye exercise. But don’t expect the for-profit vision industry to tell you about any of that. Like Big Pharma, they only make money when people stay victims and believe they cannot help themselves. Here at NaturalNews, we specialize in teaching people how to restore health by taking responsibility for their own health outcomes, thereby avoiding the outrageous costs (and inhumane suffering) caused by the medical industry.

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The Sun Is Important For Our Eye Health

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By Andreas Moritz

The human body was designed to absorb UV light for very good reasons; otherwise we would have been born with a natural absolute sunscreen for UV light on our skin and in our eyes. One of the most important reasons is that UV radiation is necessary for normal cell division. A lack of UV light disturbs normal cell growth, which can lead to cancer.

The use of sunglasses, including regular UV reflecting spectacles and contact lenses are co-responsible for certain degenerative eye diseases, such as macular degeneration. Most people who use sunglasses report continuously weakening eyesight. The solution is to this problem is simple: stop wearing them or begin to phase out your sunglasses. You will soon discover that your eyes are gradually getting used to sunlight again.

There are other ways to improve eyesight and reduce sensitivity to sunlight. These primarily include eye-exercises, good nutrition (consisting of mostly alkaline-forming foods), avoiding eyestrain and watching too many hours of television.

Our typical indoor lifestyle, coupled with excessive over-stimulation through highly acid-forming foods and beverages, the cholesterol-increasing and dehydrating effects of television, and various other stress factors are sufficient cause for damage to body cells, including those that make up the eyes.

The sun is important for our eye-health. Sunshine enables us to manufacture the Vitamin D that we need. Eyes that have been deprived of sunshine are pale and lifeless. Extreme sensitivity to sunshine is called photophobia. People who are sensitive to light and glare usually solve their problem by wearing sunglasses. But is that a solution or a stop-gap measure? Sunglasses prevent our eyes from getting adequate sunlight and causes even greater light sensitivity. The more we wear them, the more we are sensitive to light. Hence a vicious cycle develops!

By sunning our eyes, we can reduce our sensitivity to light and sharpen our eyesight. Many people have reported that their vision improved after sunning – a simple eye exercise. Sunning must be ideally done in the morning or evening and never during the hot afternoon sun. Do a moderate amount for each session. There is no need to sun your eyes until you are sun burnt. The procedure is simple. Close your eyes and face the sun directly. Slowly move your head to the left and then to the right to let the sunshine reach every part of your retina.

By regularly shutting out much-needed UV light (even children and some pets are given sunglasses to wear nowadays), the eyes are unable to properly repair themselves and replace worn out eye cells.

The increased incidence of blindness and eye diseases in the industrialized world may result, to a large extent, from the misinformation that the sun is dangerous. Please be aware that in sunny parts of the world, almost everyone wears sunglasses nowadays. This may very well account for the increase of cataracts in these places. There may also be other factors involved, such as malnutrition (diarrhea can lead to severe demineralization), smoking, pollution, and poor diet. It is known that disease is not caused by a single reason alone. It is the cumulative effect of morbid environmental agents and also our habits and practices – dietary, behavioral, etc. To keep your eyes healthy, be sure to allow enough direct or indirect sunlight to enter your eyes, ideally no less than one hour every day.

If you wear sunglasses, expose your eyes to natural light for as long as it is comfortable. Try to restrict your use to only when the glare is reflected off snow or the road. Gradually you will wean yourself from sunglasses and will no longer require them. To avoid dehydration of the skin, drink fresh water before and after exposure to the sun.

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Healing Chronic Dermatological Condition Around the Eyes

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Healing Chronic Dermatological Condition Around the Eyes

Hi, this is with regards to a person seeking healing information for chronic dermatological condition around her eyes and when I looked at the picture I clearly saw that the there is major congestion in the eyes, very puffy eyes, the eyelids are very puffed up and it clearly shows that there is a lymph drainage issue where lymph that contain metabolic waste products and dead cell material is not readily removed from the eyes and this has really nothing to do with the eyes themselves, eyes have no capability of creating swollenness around the eyes, there is just no treatment to improve that except by going to the root causes.

And when lymph drainage issues occur where water and toxins and waste products are retained around the eyes that shows that the kidneys are not capable in removing all the fluids from the system and the lymphatic system itself is congested and the congestion in the lymphatic system always finds its source, its main area of congestion in the belly button area and that is the abdominal area where the central part of the lymph system exists.

It is called cisterna chyli vessel system and it is connected to all the lymph vessels that come from the legs, that come from the abdominal region, from the organs like kidneys and the stomach, small intestine, large intestine, the liver, the spleen, so all those organs drain their own metabolic waste products into this giant pool so to say of lymph where these waste products that are passed into these areas are supposed to be detoxified and once the lymph has been detoxified and waste matter has been broken down or removed then the lymph can move into the blood stream near the heart and the problem is that the main center part, the cisterna chyli vessel, being congested will also lead to accumulation of waste products in other areas that are distant from this cisterna chyli vessel. There is particularly one duct, it is called the thoracic duct, and that duct moves from the belly button area all the way up to the throat area and the thoracic duct is responsible from draining out the parts of the facial area and eyes and if the thoracic duct is clogged out because of the abdominal lymph is congested then the lymph drainage from the eyes is not adequate and the eyes start to swell out.

So instead of targeting the symptoms thinking there is something wrong with the eyes one should put the attention on the lymph congestion, why does the lymph , the lymphatic system get clogged up and the answer to that is because we are not digesting food properly when food is remaining undigested or improperly digested it is being decomposed, it is fermented or putrefied that means the bacteria that decompose the foods produce poisons , toxins, and these toxins are absorbed into the lymphatic system around the belly button area so this necessitates an accumulation of fluid, lymph fluid, water, mostly water, in order to keep some of these toxins neutral and in this way the body at least it is protected of these toxins moving freely into the blood stream which can cause serious consequences such as blood poisoning and the body is very protective of the blood so wants to make sure that there is as much neutralization through water retention as possible in order to keep the bodies tissue from being damaged. So these swollen eyelids and puffy eyes is actually a protective mechanism that temporarily helps the eyes, it protects the eyes in this instance,  and should not be misconstrued as being an illness and it should not be targeted through methods that are not really dealing with the root cause of the problem and the digestion itself is a very much controlled by the liver so it takes us back to how much bile the liver is capable of producing or not producing, if the person makes very little bile, food is not digested properly and you have intestinal congestion that leads to lymphatic congestion which in turn can create these localized disturbances in different parts of the body such as the eyes.

So, liver flushes are very useful in this respect plus changing the diet stop eating lymph congesting foods such as cheese, milk, sugar and animal proteins like meat, chicken,   fish, eggs and so on, so, by not having those foods a lot of the lymph congestion disappears very quickly and this should be seen in a diminishment of the congestion around the eyes.

I hope this helps and I wish you a great day.

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Wearing Sunglasses is Not a Good Idea

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Wearing sunglasses is not a good idea

Wearing sunglasses is not a good idea if you want to make sure your body is optimally supplied with vitamin D and the vital UV radiation which we do need in order to sustain our health.

Many people wear sunshades, sunglasses, but they do not realize that this inhibits the production of a very important hormone in the brain that is in control or in charge of regulating the melanin production in the skin. And the melanin in the skin is responsible to protect the skin against sun damage.

Now when  you are wearing sunglasses, you are suppressing, you are basically telling the brain, telling the body that  it is getting darker outside and that it no longer needs to produce melanin, and the lack of melanin during daylight and when you are exposed to the sun while wearing these sunshades, will cause the UV-A portion of the UV light to enter the skin much more deeply than it otherwise would be able to, because with the lack of melanin, UV-A can penetrate very deeply and this can cause a higher concentration of UV-A  in the deeper parts of the skin and cause cell mutation which then can lead to the appearance of damage in those parts of the skin and in areas where there is an accumulation of toxins and acids, trans fatty acids for example,  that is an area where you can develop skin cancer.

However we cannot blame the sun for that, but our behavior, our lifestyle, the eating habits and of course the use of sunglasses. So I advise anyone who is used to wearing sunglasses, to infrequently use them, only use them when it is absolutely necessary, and after a while you would realize that you do not actually need them anymore. We were not born with sunshades on our eyes. Our eyes are perfectly capable of dealing with sun exposure.

I used to wear sunglasses because I could not even look outside, outside a window without tearing up and later on I lived in very, very sunny places like Cyprus or in Africa or in India where sun exposure was very intense, and I no longer needed to wear sunshades, sunglasses ever. and it would never ever bother my eyes again. I also cleaned out my liver and found that it helped a great deal making my eyes much less sensitive.

So, I hope that this simple message on vitamin D and sunshine and the necessity of having regular exposure to sunshine for a white Caucasian person, at least twenty minutes a day, will give you… restore your vitamin D levels,  if you are dark-skinned or black or brown, you would basically need a lot more sun exposure in order to produce the same amount of vitamin D because the melanin concentration in the darker skin people is much higher and therefore the UV-B penetration is lower, that means you produce a lot less vitamin D. This leads to… increases the risk of course among darker- skinned people for diabetes, heart disease and cancers because of the low vitamin D levels. We know now that vitamin D plays a leading role in protecting it against such illness.

So, hope you have benefited from this brief review about vitamin D, if you want to know more about it, I have written a book called “HEAL YOURSELF WITH SUNLIGHT” which covers the healing properties of sunlight to a great extent. And I hope if you are more interested in the subject, you dig into that, it is a beautiful two hundred page book that offers you incredible insights into why the sun has such great healing properties and we need to make use of these incredible healing properties in order to stay healthy, just like a plant in nature requires sun light, we need sun light just as much, we cannot really live without it, without becoming ill.

Thank you and have a beautiful sun-filled day.

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