Ayurvedic eyecare offers several simple suggestions for the professional man who wants to maintain strong healthy eyes. Since reading these words takes a toll on the eyes as does reading everything else that a professional man must read during a day, I as a holistic companion who looks after the whole person hereby give his eyes some relieving treats. Ayurvedic eyecare is pleasant and cheap. But the price is in discipline and time. Any professional man willing to pay for eyecare with these tokens will invest well.
Immediately before you wash your face early in the morning fill your mouth with cool water and hold the water in the mouth while you splash cool water on the open eyes. Spit the water after washing the face. This is cooling from inside out and will make the eyes fresh, happy, and cheerful. If you don't want to splash water over the open eyes, you can use eyecups. Another effective way to keep the eyes strong are the sun salutation exercises. 12 sets of them are great for the eyes and the whole body. These exercises are best to do early in the morning.
Ayurvedic eyecare for the professional man of the pitta constitution
I explained the vata, pitta, kapha doshas in the first half of the article about Ayurveda and sex. Pitta - the energy which produces all bodily heat and governs all bodily functions related to heat - has a subtype that lives in the eyes. The 2 prevalent elements of pitta are fire and water. Fire = light, and is therefore related to vision and sight, intelligence, understanding, and many other things. Thus pitta people often congregate in the academia and higher professions. Those fields require using the eyes a lot. Pitta people read, write, study, and work on computers a lot. Many pitta people also wear spectacles from a young age.And pitta people usually logically have more problems with the eyes than vata ad kapha people.
One excellent care for the eyes is washing them with triphala powder. Buy those eyecups after all as you will need them for this. Pour boiled water from a kettle into a cup. Add a teaspoon of triphala powder, cover the top of the cup with a saucer, and leave it to cool to just warm. Strain the powder twice through doubly folded cheesecloth or 2 paper coffee filters so that particles of the powder do not stay in the water. Pour the tea into the eyecups and wash the eyes before you wash the face in the morning.
Another way is to buy pure castor oil without preservatives and put 1 drop of the oil into each eye at bedtime. Also rub 1 teaspoon of the oil into the soles of your feet. Your eyes will feel happy and fresh in the morning. If you want to soothe burning eyes, ideally make ghee at home. You will thus not have chemicals in it. Put 1 drop of lukewarm liquid ghee into each eye at bedtime. The ghee will lubricate the eyelids and lashes + soothe and strengthen the eyes. Or you can put 3 drops of pure rosewater into each eye. Rosewater is cooling.
For eyestrain put cool goat's milk on clean cotton wool pads and the pads over the closed eyes for 5 minutes. If goat's milk is not at hand, use cow's milk. But goat's milk is better.
Additional suggestions
Read sitting up. Keep the vertebral column straight while reading. Do not read lying down. Watch TV with a background light in the room. Do not watch TV with only the TV [or other] screen in a dark room. Use computer screens that don't glare. Or use filters that protect screens from glare. Gazing into sunrise [without spectacles] continuously for 10 minutes improves eyesight. And gazing into a flame of real fire or candle [again without spectacles] continuously for 5 minutes also improves eyesight. Massage of both eyes at once in circles with the index fingers from the inner corners under the eyes to the inner corners above the eyes stimulates the tear glands. This is good for people who have dry eyes.
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