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Perform yoga pranayama, palming and trataka using a candle or a pencil regularly. Avoid mental and emotional stress. Try to sleep well and relax. Do not strain the eyes to see near or distant objects. Tub bath is very helpful. Relaxation is one of the best ways of helping your eyes.
Take five grams each of saunf, black and white pepper, almond, small pipal, khaskhas, dhania(dry), sat magaj and ten grams of mishri. Powder and mix them, and take 1/2 spoon in the morning and evening with milk. Triphala, rose water and honey are also good for the eyes. Constipation aggravates the myopic condition. A light diet with green vegetables, soups and fruits is helpful.

Squint

Squint is a common problem and causes a great deal of anxiety to the parents of the afflicted child. Squintis caused by disturbance of the synchronisation of the eye movement. Children often try to mimic squint-eyed persons,and thereby tend to develop a squint. A squint-eyed child needs a lot of sympathy, assurance and support from parents. Over anxiety on their part does not help.
When we see an object, two images are formed, one in each eye. The brain perceives them as one. This single perception depends upon perfect harmony of movements of the two eyes. Disturbance in the synchronisation of eye movement is seen as squint.

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