Home remedy for dry eyes

Recommendations For Wellness

• Avoid rubbing your eyes.
• Remember to blink. Blinking helps spread your tears more evenly.
  
  
  This is especially important when reading, watching TV and working on the computer.
• Keep your indoor humidity between 30 and 50 percent. If you find that the air in your house is dry, try using a humidifier to add moisture to the air.
  
  
  
• Consider buying an air filter to pull dust and other particles out of the air which may be irritating your eyes.
• Don’t direct hair dryers, car heaters or fans towards your eyes.
• When outdoors, wear sunglasses, especially the wrap around kind, to reduce your exposure to the sun, wind and dust.
• If you wear contact lenses, try wearing your lenses fewer hours each day. You can also talk to your eye care practitioner about switching to a different type of lens.
• Check your medications for any possible side effects that may cause dry eyes, or talk to your doctor to see if they may be contributing to your symptoms.
• Purchase “artificial tears” at your local drugstore. Avoid the kind that “get the red out” since they won’t do anything to relieve the itching, burning or other symptoms associated with dry eyes.
• For women, only wear waterproof eye makeup. This can help to avoid irritation. Also, when applying mascara, only apply it to the tips of the upper eyelashes and refrain from using any makeup on the lower lids or lashes.
• Supplement with essential fatty acids such as omega 3 oil, flax seed oil or evening primrose oil. Studies show that essential fatty acids can decrease dry eye by keeping the mucous membranes of the eyes lubricated.
• Eating foods rich in vitamin A or supplementing with vitamin A can help to keep the eyes moist.
• Eyebright or Nature’s Sunshine’s EW can be used topically as an eyewash. It has good astringent and antihistamine properties.

Dry eyes indicate deficiency of estrogen and excess of androgens hormones. Take shatawari kalpa or shatawari ghrutam, ayurvedic medicines available online.

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If you can eat only fruits and vegetable juices/soups for 4 days, you will find that early morning self urine is just like water, no salty taste nor pungent odor. If you collect this urine, dilute it with water 1:1 and put two drops in each eye every two hours of the day, slowly problem will resolve. Everyday morning, keep aside the self urine for this purpose. Just ten days may be needed.

early morning urine consists of some estrogen and recycling this along with urea in the urine causes tear glands to restart their work. Diluted urine can be ingested also, if taste and odor is not an issue. This remedy may be felt not in good taste, but comes from Damar Tantra, texts older than those of even ayurveda!