Other than giving your eyes the right kind of feeding, sleep is also very vital for clear healthy eyes. Sleep is also imperative for mental and physical health. You need at an average at least eight hours of sleep in a day; without it, your eyes become dull, puffy and red. Dark circles also appear.
Eye problems can arise from stomach ailments. Lemon juice in warm water, first thing in the morning, keeps your stomach free from disorders.
A great reviver for tired eyes, if you just don't have time for a nap, is to relax for ten to fifteen minutes with cotton pads soaked in weak warm tea placed on the eyelids.
This rests and brightens the eyes. A variation of this warm tea compress is a compress of witch hazel (witch hazel should be available at most good chemists). Just soak cotton pads in witch haze! and use in the same way.
* Dark circles, usually, respond well to a potato compress. Scrub and grate a small potato and fill it in two gauze squares. Apply these to the under-eye areas. Relax with the potato compress on your under-eye area for about half an hour. Then wash off with cool water and use a moisturizer.
* Cucumber slices on the eyes are tremendous revivers for tired, red eyes.
* Increase your water intake to at least eight glasses per day. Other than doing tremendous things for your complexion, this helps to keep eyes clear and healthy. In some cases it is also known to remove dark circles.
* Use salt to remove puffiness of the under-eye area (preferably sea salt). Dissolve one teaspoon salt in one cup of hot water. Soak two small cotton pads in this solution. Apply to eyelids until the pads cool. Then rinse with cold water.
* To get rid of crows-feet or the tiny lines around the eyes, hold a cold water wash-cloth against your closed eyes for a couple of minutes every morning.
* Always massage your eyes in the same direction as the lines. Horizontally, never up and down.
* For grit in the eye, introduce one drop of castor oil into the eye, using a dropper.
* For cataract, take homoeopathic Calcarea Iodine 6.
* For scaly eyelids, take at least one teaspoon of vegetable oil every day on salads or vegetables.
Never make the mistake of using old bottles of eye drops. Drops that have been stored for too long can become infected with germs or moulds as they change chemically. These can be positively dangerous.
If your eyesight is weak, you must wear glasses. However, wear your glasses only when you need to. Eye muscles cannot relax as long as you are wearing them.
If you cannot do without glasses, take them off for a few minutes, from time to time, during the day. Take this time off to do some eye-relaxing exercises which are given at the beginning of this chapter, Also people who wear glasses should have their eyes re-tested every two years.
