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Alternative Medicine can bring relief for Red Eyes

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Redness! Burning! Irritation! These words are enough to make your eyes water but you can’t. The reason is dry eyes. There are a number of causes for this and luckily, relief for red eyes can come through alternative medicine that is safe. This is a common ocular problem in the Southwest because of the low humidity, which produces an extra demand on our tear glands to keep the eyes lubricated. Other symptoms of dry eyes are a sensation that something is in the eye or even severe pain.  These symptoms tend to be worse in dry cool weather and worse during a windy day. Dry eyes can also be aggravated by pollution and underlying allergies.  The eye discomfort is worse when reading and worse toward the end of the day. If you are asking the question “Can people with dry eyes wear contacts?”, then  the answer is that it can be highly uncomfortable for obvious reasons..

There are 5 common causes of Dry Eyes:

  1. Decrease in blinking. Blinking helps to spread tears across the surface of the eye and lubricate the surface. Any decrease in blinking will cause symptoms of dry eyes.
  2. Aging. Tear production decreases with aging. The volume of tear production can be 60% less at age 65 than at age 18.
  3. Environment. High altitudes; sunny, dry windy conditions; and the use of heaters, blowers and air conditioning increase tear evaporation and cause symptoms of dry eyes.
  4. Contact lenses can dramatically increase tear evaporation. Dry eyes are the leading cause of contact lens discomfort.
  5. Some medications decrease the body’s ability to produce lubricating tears. These include decongestants, antihistamines, diuretics and many other allopathic medications.

Alternative medicine can help!

Relief for red eyes can come through the following inclusions in diet and alternatie medicine. Deficiency of Vitamin A has been shown to contribute to dry eyes. The first line of treatment should be a healthy diet with fresh dark green leafy vegetables or supplemental vitamin A. I would recommend 10,000 Units of Vitamin A once a day. Vitamin A can be toxic to the liver so be sure to consult with your health care practitioner.

Primrose Oil 1000 mg twice a day can also be helpful. It is a source of essential fatty acids that aids in the production of several tear components.

A product that I recommend is the Dry Eye and Blepharitis Nutritional Formula sold by Nutritional Research. (www.nutritionalresearch.net or 1-877-341-2703) One packet everyday supplies essential vitamins and nutrients to relieve symptoms of dry eyes.

Artificial tears and lubricating eye drops are the second line of treatment. They can be used as often as every hour to help reduce the symptoms of dry eyes. There are many brands of artificial tears on the market. The best are those that are preservative free. A  homeopathic artificial tear that I recommend is  Similasan Eye Drops #1 one to two drops every hour as needed.

In addition begin eye compresses or soaks using Euphrasia or Eyebright Tea.  Obtain some Euphrasia tea bags and soak them in hot water. Use a clean cloth and soak your eyes twice a day for 10 to 15 minutes. You can also drink the tea for some additional benefit!  Similasan and Euphrasia can also be ordered from Nutritional Research.

Common homeopathic remedies for dry eyes.  Suggested dosage is a 6 or 12C twice a day. As with all homeopathic remedies you should stop the medication when symptoms improve.

ACONTINUM NAPELLUS (Acon.)
Symptoms from an exposure to a cold dry wind. Dryness, burning, sensitiveness to air.  Burning in the eyes especially worse in the evening.

ARSENICUM ALBUM (Ars-a)
Burning of the margins of the lid. Feeling of sand in the eyes in the evening. Pulsating and throbbing eye pain after midnight. Light sensitivity.

BELLADONNA (Bell.)
Feeling of heat in the eyes. Feeling as if the eyes are protruded.  Severe throbbing pain in the eye and head, worse at night.

EUPRHASIA (Euphr.)
Eyes irritated, burning with acrid and profuse tearing. Light sensitivity with intense blinking.

PULSATILLA (Puls.)
Eyelids are stuck together by yellow discharge in the morning. Symptoms better in the cool  open air.

MERCURIUS (Merc.)

Redness of eyes with thin and acrid tearing which is worse at night. Marked light sensitivity. Symptoms similar to Euphrasia but they are more marked and there is night time aggravation.

SULPHUR (Sulph.)
Watering in the morning followed by dryness. Redness of the eyes during the day. Redness and burning of the eyelids.

ZINC
Eyelids stick together in the morning. Eyes are painful in the evening  with a sensation of sand in the eyes with frequent watering. Constant burning in the eyes with a feeling of dryness. Hot scalding tears.

In addition to dry eyes, Homeopathy can also be of value in the treatment of many eye problems such as cataracts, glaucoma and macular degeneration. It is best to see an experienced homeopathic practitioner for the evaluation of these conditions.

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Dr. Edward Kondrot is a board certified ophthalmogist and certified homeopathic doctor. He is the author of Healing the Eye the Natural Way: Alternative Medicine and Macular Degeneration, and Microcurrent Stimulation: Miracle Eye Cure. In addition, he is the director of the Farrington School of Homeopathy in Pittsburgh and is a core faculty member at the Desert Institute of Classical Homeopathy in Phoenix.  His two main offices are in Phoenix, Arizona and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His web page is www.homeopathiceye.com and he can be reached at 1-800-430-9328.

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Eye Health Problems and Miracle Eye Cure Knowledge Shared

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

About the Healing the Eye Vision Therapy and Restoration Center
The Healing the Eye Vision Therapy and Restoration Center promotes  wellness of sight, body, mind and spirit.  The center was developed to help patients who are losing their vision and who want to pursue natural alternative methods to improve their eye sight. When the eye doctor tells you, “Nothing else can be done”  this is when the work of the Healing the Eye Center begins. Dr. Kondrot has researched methods from all over the world and he brings these methods to his center.  The center treats patients who seek holistic non-invasive therapies for eye problems which include macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts, eyestrain and other eye disorders. Dr. Kondrot has a worldwide following because of these successful therapies.

Modalities used at the Center
Homeopathy
Homeopathy is a scientific method of therapy based on the principle of stimulating the body’s own healing processes in order to accomplish cure. The basic system was devised and verified by Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, nearly 200 years ago. Homeopathy’s astounding success rates in both chronic and acute diseases has resulted in not only standing the test of time, but also rapidly achieving widespread acceptance in Europe, India and South America.
In Homeopathy, (“homeo-” means “similar”), each of us is a total and complete individual, no aspect of which can be separated from any other.  To be effective, any valid therapy must be based on a deep understanding of and respect for the uniqueness of each individual.  In Homeopathy, each patient is evaluated as a whole person, mental, emotional and physical. The prescribing remedy is based on the unique patterns found on all three levels. This means that each person is given a remedy that will stimulate his or her individual body to heal.”

Vision therapy
Many of the symptoms of eye disorders  are associated with functional problems.  It is essential to have eye coordination and integration with the brain to have good vision. Vision therapy addresses problems that result from weaknesses in eye muscles or other problems,  through a series of exercises and skill building sessions, or with physical devices such as special lenses.

For example, let’s look at reading… there are several basic visual skills that are important for reading.  The first is pursuits or the ability to follow a moving target.  When reading, it is necessary to follow and track words in sequence. Poor pursuits result in losing your place and jumping back and forth while reading.  Another skill is saccadic movements… this is the ability to change fixation.  When coming to the end of a sentence, it is necessary to change fixation to the next line.  Two common examples of problems that can be addressed with vision therapy are tracking or convergence problems.’ Tracking’ means that an individual is not able to use their eyes to scan the text, left-to-right. ‘Convergence’ or ‘teaming’ means that the two eyes are not working together properly, so that the person may see double, or may lack binocular vision. There are specific eye exercises to develop these skills to help the eyes work better and more efficiently.

Vision therapy is not only to help to develop better reading skills but it is used to help improve all visual skills. Skills associated with driving, recreation and all sports.

Syntonic light therapy
This is a system of light therapy that has been used for over 75 years and has been developed by the College of Syntonics.  There are certain wavelengths of light that have a physiological effect on the human body.
The red spectrum has been documented to stimulate the sympathetic system.  No, we do not want this since most of our life takes care of this very nicely!  The color red has been associated with anger and increased heart rate and an increase in blood pressure.  Blue, on the other hand will relax the sympathetic system and stimulate the parasympathetic.  This is the first step towards healing disease. Think about how relaxing the blue ocean water and the blue sky can be!   A vacation to the beach can be very healing.

Light has been shown to affect the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic system has two parts, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. The sympathetic is responsible for survival,“fight or flight,” and the parasympathetic  is responsible for the body sustaining life, like digestion and healing disease. When you are running away from a grizzly bear your body does not care about digesting your food! Stress – yes we have heard of that word – STRESS certainly contributes to disease and stress can also be the fuel that sustains disease and prevents healing.  The mechanism of stress is felt to over stimulate the sympathetic nervous system and to suppress the parasympathetic. When the parasympathetic system is suppressed, the body has a difficult time to heal disease. Healing will not take place unless there is a balance in the autonomic system.  Color therapy can help.

In many eye conditions, the visual field, or area of peripheral vision, is often reduced. This makes reading and other close activities extremely difficult.  Imagine trying to read looking through a small one inch opening!  Light therapy can help to expand the visual field and open the peripheral vision.

There was also a study published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology in 1943 on the effects of green light in treating glaucoma.  This study demonstrated that green light can lower the intraocular pressure.

Microcurrent Therapy
Microcurrent has been used over the past 15 years to help improve vision.  The mechanism is felt to be threefold; increasing the circulation to the eye, stimulating the function of the retinal cells and possibly in the regeneration of cells.  The effects of 10 to 500 micro amps on the cellular level have been documented by Dr. Cheng to increase ATP production by 500%, increase protein synthesis by 70% and increase cell transport by 40%.

A new technique called Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) has produced a dramatic improvement in the treatment of various eye disorders.  The roots of Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) date back to the early 1900′s to Dr. Albert Abrams, who was the first physician to use calibrated instruments capable of detecting the radiations of living tissue.  Dr. Abrams concluded that all matter radiates electromagnetic energy and the characteristics of the radiation depend upon the unique molecular structure.

Modern FSM utilizes hundreds of frequencies within the range of .01 to 999 Hz with varying intensities of 20 to 600 micro amps.

Microcurrent is the main treatment used at the center for macular degeneration, glaucoma and other ocular disorders.

CHELATION THERAPY
Although you may not be familiar with chelation, doctors have been using it in this country since about 1950, following its development in Germany in 1938.  This is a treatment normally used to treat lead poisoning and even venomous snakebites.  In the early years of its use, chelation was found to improve the heart disease of those who underwent it for other purposes. This prompted a number of physicians to begin using it for this purpose, since it is known to flush plaque and toxic metals from bloodstream.  For many, many individuals it has been an alternative to heart or vascular surgery.

Chelation has also been used to reverse macular degeneration, since ARMD is caused, at least in part, by the blockage in the choroid capillaries, which deliver blood to the macula.

In 1994, the Journal of the Advancement of Medicine published a case where a 59 year old woman with ARMD used nutrition along with chelation for her condition.  After undergoing the recommended series of chelation, her vision improved to 20/25 in one eye and 20/20 in the other.  Her central vision was greatly enhanced. One year later, her vision improvement remained.

The word “chelation” is taken from the Greek word, chele, meaning claw. This describes the way the molecules of the chelating agent grab onto the molecules of heavy metal, such as lead, iron, and copper in the body and moves them to the kidneys, via the bloodstream, for excretion.  The process of chelation also binds calcium, which is known, when it is present in cells in excessive amounts, to interfere with arterial health. Calcium is responsible for the build-up of plaque that causes blockages in the blood vessels. None of the calcium chelated and released during chelation is the calcium from bones and teeth. Chelation lowers serum ionized calcium which decreases clotting, reduces spasm and softens “hardening” of the arteries. A further benefit to overall health is that EDTA reduces the LDL cholesterol (the so-called ‘bad’ cholesterol) content in the liver and the plaque formed in the arteries.

Despite its success, scientists do not know for certain how chelation works. One theory is that it reduces free radicals, which are the harmful by-products of metabolic processes. A related theory is that since heavy metals cause an increased production of free radicals, reducing them in the body, reduces the numbers of free radicals. Yet another understanding of how chelation works focuses on the relationship between calcium and magnesium as intracellular and intercellular components.  As excess calcium is bound in the bloodstream, the calcium/magnesium balance is favorably affected.

There are several accepted methods of administering chelation and these depend on your condition and state of health.  They include oral, topical, rectal and intravenous.

Lipid Exchange or the PK protocol
Lipid Exchange  is one of the most exciting therapies now available in our clinic.  This protocol was developed by Dr. Patricia Kane who has researched the relationship with neurological disease and deficiencies in lipids that comprise the cell membrane.  She theorizes that by restoring lipids in the cell membrane, neurological conditions can be successfully treated.  It has received increased clinical focus because of its ability to dramatically improve the outcomes of patients in a wide range of disorders such as ALS, Lyme, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, MS, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, Autism, Bipolar, Seizures, Hepatitis C, Environmental Illness, Cardiovascular disease and eye disease. The Lipid Exchange is performed by mixing blood with a lipid called Phosphatidylcholine (PC).  This blood lipid mixture is slowly infused back into the body.

The eye ranks as one of the highest in lipid cellular complexity.  There are over 100 million rods and cones in each eye and each one has up to 2000 layers of lipid membrane.  Each membrane contains 140 million rhodopsin proteins which are responsible for capturing photons to produce sight . Each day a portion of this membrane and the rhodopisin proteins are sloughed off.  Each cell discards about 7% of its lipid membrane stack each day.  The entire photo-receiving structure is regenerated every 14 days!

Phosphatidylcholine (PC) directly up-regulates the fluidity of the membrane, improving its vitality, which is essential for all of metabolism, including neuronal transmission.  Poor neuronal response is degraded in all the neurological disorders and is directly improved with PC therapy. Raising PC levels plays an important role in improving memory and recall, and has clinically shown to improve the flow of information of all the senses and most significantly eyesight.  PC, given either orally or intravenously, helps restore the proper integrity of the cell membrane, thereby restoring the proper function of organ systems, especially the liver, the gut, the brain, immune system, heart, and hormonal system, which will ultimately improve the total health of the individual.

Oxidative therapies
Oxidative therapy is a very simple, inexpensive therapy that has shown to be effective in promoting oxygenation, vasodilation, enhancing body physiology and circulation.  Oxidative therapy has been shown to be effective as an adjunct treatment for many ocular disorders including macular degeneration and glaucoma. Studies have shown that it improves the following cellular activites: mitochondrial dysfunctions in the cell,  changes acidosis seen in the chronically ill, improves the action of the krebs cycle and increases oxidative phosphorylation.  In all disease states and conditions caused by viruses, heavy metals, pesticides, petrochemicals the above cellular activities are reduced.  Oxidative therapy can dramatically reverse this negative effect.  Dr. Robert Rowen, in his Newsletter 2nd Opinion, has advocated this therapy in the treatment of macular degeneration and glaucoma.  There  have been two published studies  indicating that Oxidative therapies can be helpful in glaucoma.  This article reported that a glaucoma patient who underwent oxidative therapies had improvement in optic nerve function and visual fields.

There are many methods of delivering oxidative therapies.  These include intravenous and rectal Ozone, intravenous ultra violet light, and intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) refers to the treatment of the entire body with air  at greater than normal atmospheric pressures.  ,The earth’s atmosphere at sea level normally exerts approximately 15 pounds per square inch or 1 atmosphere of pressure.  At this pressure, we normally are breathing air with about 20% oxygen.  During HBOT the pressure is increased up to 2 atmospheres of pressure with  a much higher oxygen concentration.  This increased pressure, combined with an increase in oxygen, helps to dissolve oxygen in the blood plasma and all body cells, tissues and fluids  up to 10 times normal concentration.  The affects are a greatly increased oxygen concentration in all body tissues, even those with reduced or blocked blood flow.  It also stimulates the growth of new blood vessels to locations with reduced circulation and improves blood flow to areas with arterial blockage.  Hyperbaric oxygen treatment has been used successfully for many disorders including stroke, retinal artery occlusions, optic neuritis, brain injuries, poisoning, neurological conditions, glaucoma and macular degeneration.

Join us for our patient educational seminar series!

This series is sponsored by the Restore Vision Foundation, a non-profit Arizona Corporation that helps educate doctors and patients on alternative therapies for eye disease.  There is no charge to attend, but a small donation to the Restore Vision Foundation will be greatly appreciated!

Dyslexia and learning disorders
January 14, 2009
7:00PM to 8:00PM

Guest Lecturer, Dr. Robert Rowen, editor of the famous Newsletter 2nd Opinion. Come and have all your alternative medical questions answered by this leading expert!
January 23, 2009
11:00AM to Noon

Microcurrent in the treatment of sporting injuries and vision enhancement for sports
February  18, 2009
7:00PM to 8:00PM

Alternative treatments of macular degeneration
Mar 18 , 2009
7:00PM to 8:00PM

Reducing Presbyiopia  (reading glasses)
April 15, 2009
7:00PM to 8:00PM

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