Natural Eye Care: Your Guide to Healthy Vision and Healing

Foreward   Table of Contents

New! Natural Eye Care's comprehensive guide to healthy vision and healing has been revised and updated to include new findings in research, technical advances, understanding why eye disease occurs, and what to do about it. The new, revised, 2nd edition contains:

• Almost 800 pages of detailed information about the eye, eye conditions, and eye care
• Information on conventional and complementary care for 48 vision conditions
• Over 2000 research studies that were used to make recommendations
• Over 50 colored illustrations that explain eye conditions to non-scientists
• Contributions by health and vision professionals who are experts in their field
• Self help tips and recommendations
• Information on other modalities for vision care such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, essential oils, and acupressure.

Foreward

The world is changing. Our concepts of Western medicine have shifted over the past 10–20 years with a vast amount of new research coming out regularly that supports the benefit of lifestyle, diet, and targeted supplementation. The reductionist mentality of referring only to each symptom often isolates the person from the health condition, defining them in terms of diagnosis and specific medications for that diagnosis.

The wholistic and Eastern medicine approach seeks to look at each person as a unique individual where treatment strategies can often vary from person to person, even with the same diagnosis. It has been my privilege and pleasure to work with Dr. Grossman the last couple of decades, and he has opened my eyes to perceiving vision problems in a new light. Dr. Grossman believes that changes in our eyesight do not happen in a vacuum, rather they have roots in our total being, including our genetic makeup, the food we eat, our exercise routine, management of stress levels and emotions, exposure to airborne toxins, as well as general belief systems about ourselves and the world around us. Each of us is unique, and we literally take in the world around us through our senses, primarily our vision. How we take in the world is often a reflection of who we are and which symptoms and health conditions we experience.

Using their combined background in optometry, nutrition, traditional Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, and Qigong, Marc Grossman, OD, L.Ac. and Michael Edson, MS, L.Ac., along with contributing doctors and health care practitioners, offer readers specific natural strategies for supporting and protecting healthy vision. This includes those genetically at risk for certain eye diseases, as well as patients working with their eye doctor to manage eye conditions, which include macular degeneration, glaucoma, retinitis pigmentosa, Stargardt disease, rod-cone dystrophy, cataracts, eye floaters, computer eyestrain, and dry eyes. This exceptional book will open our eyes to the power that lies within us to help take control of our vision and overall health. It will reconnect us to the basic truth that the body’s own natural wisdom and ability to heal can be supported through the right nourishment, through our belief system, diet, exercise, and targeted herbs and supplements.

Natural Eye Care: Your Guide to Healthy Vision and Healing offers a bridge where Western medicine, Western nutrients, and Eastern healing wisdom come together to help the whole person heal and, just as importantly, stay healthy.

Jason Elias, M.A., L.Ac. co-author of:
The Five Elements of Self-Healing, Feminine Healing
The A-Z Guide to Healing Herbal Remedies
The Memoir: Kissing Joy as it Flies: A Journey in Search of Healing and Wholeness

Table of Contents

PART ONE. UNDERSTANDING THE EYE

PART TWO. THE FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTHY VISION

PART THREE VISION CONDITIONS

Natural Eye Care: Your Guide to Healthy Vision and Healing, 2nd Ed.
By Marc Grossman, O.D. L.Ac. and Michael Edson, L.Ac.
Edited by Jennifer W. Miller
P. 799 Cm. 8.5" x 11"
48 color illustrations
Includes appendix and index
ISBN: 978-0-692-07431-2

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