Natural Eye Care Series: Cataracts - Paperback

by Od Marc Grossman (Author), L. Ac Michael Edson (Author)

Natural Eye Care Series: Cataracts offers a unique approach to supporting healthy vision from early childhood to mature age, with the understanding that healthy vision relies on overall health and emotional health. Filled with wisdom and insight of both ancient and modern-day healing methods, this book integrates a wide range of alternative therapies as they apply to health of the lens.This book will help you make sensible, researched, and clinically based decisions to support lens health with recommendations that include Western herbs, nutritional supplements, Chinese medicine, and additional therapies. You will learn about the underlying causes and be given tools and techniques to develop your own eye health strategies. Natural Eye Care Series: Cataracts offers natural ways to keep your eye lens healthy and reduce the risk of cataract onset, ways to manage early stage cataracts naturally, nutrient and diet recommendations based on peer reviewed research studies, self-help suggestions including specific antioxidants and juicing recipe, Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine and essential oils.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface. 5

Cataracts. 7

What are Cataracts?. 7

Types and Prevalence. 7

About the Lens. 11

Signs and Symptoms. 12

Causes and Risk Factors. 13

Conventional Treatment 15

Complementary Approach. 19

Diet 31

Lifestyle 45

Non Drug Eye Drop Recommendations 51

Exercise 53

Other Modalities. 57

On the Horizon. 61