Myopia (Short or Near Sightedness)

Myopia is a condition of short sight in which case due to high convexity (or when the eye-ball is too long), rays of light are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and thus form circles of diffused light upon it. This situation is opposed to long vision (hypermetropia).

Causes

The patient generally complains of difficulty in viewing distant or far-off objects, and the patient is often a young child. The patient has to use concave lenses in his spectables (having required curvature) which often help to correct the vision. But changes in vision are quite frequent, thus forcing the patient to change the lenses and this condition is called 'Progressive myopia'. In some cases, vision shows improvement and, in other cases (nirelythough), it might stablise or else gradually or fastly deteriorate.

Symptoms

• Blurred vision in relation to far off or distant objects.

• Inability to recognise well-known persons, unless they are standing next to the patient (But this symptom surfaces at a later stage).

• The Patient sees screen, black-boared even in a hazy and blurred form, He sees only some shadows but tails to recognise the real object.

• Patient has to exert hard to locate for identity, shape, size and form of an object which causes watering from the eyes.

• Disturbed sleep, headache, pain in neck and cervical portion may be off-shoot: symptoms of the malady.

It the child cornplaints anyone of the said symptoms, immediately get him examined and take all the possible steps without any delay or else you will land the child in irreversibly complex problems.

Treatment:

• In Allopathic, Myopia is still an enigma, though correct glasses can be advised but a permanent cure is still not in sight, so to say.

• Use Triphala (1TSP) at bed time at night with milk. Also immerse Triphala in water at night and wash eyes with Triphala water.

• If myopia has been caused by nervous debility, take Saptamrita Lauha (1TSP) twice daily with milk.

• Another remedy of choice is Yashti Madhu - ½ TSP root powder may be taken with ½ TSP honey and ¼ TSP ghee, or else Mahatriphalagrita (½ - TSP) may be taken with milk.