ROLE OF OCULAR REJUVENATION MODALITIES IN PREVENTIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY

*Prof. (Dr.) Gunjan Sharma, Dr. Arun Kumar and Dr. Anchal Pathak

ABSTRACT

Vision 2020 is a global initiative that aims to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020. It is a collaborative effort of many programmes, which comes under Community ophthalmology or preventive ophthalmology, to improve eye care programs; gaining and sharing knowledge and think solutions together to achieve quality, comprehensive and equitable eye care. Our exacting and demanding lifestyle has resulted in many ailments including adverse effect on eyes. In present era, there are lots of causes which can disturb the natural health of eyes like continuous work on computer, watching television for long time, very frequent & prolong use of mobile phones, late night arousal, pollution, reading in poor source of light, unhealthy dietary habits physical and mental stress. Association between such defective lifestyle measures and subsequent eye diseases and their prevention procedures are searched and reviewed from different Ayurvedic literatures and online sources. Ayurveda which gives great significance to maintaining the health through its main “Swasthyaswasthya rakshanam” ideal, gives an elaborate account of protection of eyes and preservation of vision. In this consideration centuries ago our Acharyas has described many non pharmacological modalities while describing the dincharya (daily regime) and ritucharya (seasonal regime) and pathya- apathya (dietary regime), yogabhyasa, ocular exercises and many other discrete reference throughout the text are also available to rejuvenate ocular tissue. So an attempt has been made to explore the procedures for preservation of eye health in relation to certain factors like- relation of eye diseases with mind, diet and activities, sleep, daily and seasonal regimen related to eye health, occupational eye health and disorders, aging process and poor vision and rasayan (Rejuvenation) therapy for preserving good vision. Time tested procedures like Anjana (collyrium), Aschyotan (eye drop), Snana(bath),Padabhyanga(foot massage with oil), Nasya (nasal application of drugs), Abhyanga (oil massage) are considered as highly effective daily procedures for the maintenance of eye health. Various Yogasan and Satkriya and ocular exercises are also effective for ocular health and better eye sight.

Keywords: Non Pharmacological, Eye rejuvenation modality, Ocular exercises, preventive ophthalmology,