Treatment Info - Glaucoma

Fast Facts about Glaucoma
1. Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in the United States.

2. Approximately 80,000 people are totally blind from glaucoma.

3. Approximately 250,000 people are blind in one eye.

4. Approximately 1,200,000 more have some degree of visual loss from glaucoma.

5. Several million more people have elevated intraocular pressure.

6. About 2% of the population age 40-50 and 8% over 70 have elevated intraocular pressure.

7. Some 20 million people in the U.S are susceptible.

8. Glaucoma affects people of all ages and all races.

10. Most blindness from glaucoma is needless and could have been prevented if detected and treated in time.

11. Most patients have no symptoms from glaucoma.

12. Blindness from glaucoma usually begins with loss of peripheral vision. Central vision is usually maintained until the late stages. By the time the patient notices visual loss, damage is advanced.

13. Factors, which predispose to glaucoma, include myopia, black race, and a family history of glaucoma. Thyroid disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure may be associated to some degree.

14. Intraocular pressure can be measured by a simple office test called tonometry. This test is one of the most reliable methods of detecting elevated intraocular pressure.

15. Signs of disorders within the eye which could lead eventually to elevated intraocular pressure can be determined by a thorough eye examination by an ophthalmologist.

16. Fully half of all persons with damage from glaucoma are unaware of it.

17. However, only 20% of people knew that glaucoma was related to elevated pressure within the eye. Another 50% had heard of glaucoma, but weren't sure what it was, while 30% had never heard of it.

Conventional treatment of Glaucoma

In all cases the priority is to reduce the eye pressure as quickly as possible so that damage to the optic nerve does not occur. Drops may be recommended which reduce the amount of fluid to the eye. Or surgery may be recommended to either separate the fibres in the drainage tissue thus improving the drainage and thus reducing pressure. Another procedure is to bypass the normal drainage tissue and form a safety valve to keep the pressure at acceptable limits this is called a trabeculectomy. Laser treatment may also help by improving the outflow of the fluid and thus reducing the pressure. However reading the reports from laser treatment indicates that results can be sporadic with a definite trend of decreasing vision over time, as the holes made by it tend to heal over. Further laser treatments may be required and the report says even the safety valve insertion method has sometimes the drawback of healing over and thus stopping the drainage, which increases the pressure. As you can see all of these methods are a mechanical method of reducing the all important eye pressure. These methods are not treating the cause.

Treatment of children

There appears to be many forms of infantile glaucoma but the majority there is an abnormal fluid drainage angle and a membrane of sorts, which is covering some part of the drainage mechanism. Other structures affecting the eye may be abnormally formed giving rise to increased pressure. Premature babies and other birth defects can have detrimental effects on the formation of all sorts of tissue and mechanisms. Most treatment is in the form of operations, often the first is a goniotomy where the surgeon cuts the membrane which is causing the blockage to effect drainage. Sometimes the eyes will need watching throughout life. Clearly in cases where the formation of the eye is not correct surgery can be vital in ensuring that pressures are kept in check and thus keep eyesight maintained.

Alternative treatments
It is said that spiritual healing can be applied to any condition and without doubt this condition definitely qualifies. Please read the chapter on spiritual healing on this web site .It is extremely beneficial provided you find the right healer and that you are ready to be healed.
The Edgar cayce readings offer some very interesting reading as cayce was asked on quite a few occasions about this problem. But before you go further please read and get really well aquatinted with the Cayce philosophy and info page. This will help you know what we are about and attune you to the kind of thinking from which these principles rest upon.

Cayce gives the causes of Glaucoma; to do with the functioning of the glands in origin with mention of spinal misalignments causing other blockages where proper channels needed to be kept open, Toxins or infectious forces could also cause problems in the system, poor eliminations and kidney and liver imbalances were also mentioned. Karma was also mentioned.

According to cayce any of these conditions either singly or combined could interfere with the proper nutriments that feed the eyes and or nerve impulses, which go to the eyes.

Treatment

Little treatment was recommended directly to the eyes except a mild antiseptic to cleanse the cornea and eyeball itself.

1.	Each day have plenty of carrots raw or cooked, lettuce and celery.

2.	B1 vitamins one a day for three weeks then leave off for a week and then resume.

3.	Beets and tops should be a part of the diet.

4.	Jerusalem artichokes three times each week once raw and not larger than a hen egg.

5.	Do have fish in the diet and sea foods.

Each day do have a through massage from the base of the brain to the ninth cervical with this combination of oil to 4 ounces of Russian white oil or usoline add 1ounce of peanut oil 1/2 ounce of cedar wood oil, 1/4 ounce of sassafras oil, Lanolin (dissolved). The massage preferably to be given in the evening, not rushed but given thoroughly with care.

Sight can be aided according to cayce by not sitting in dim light and attempting to read or sit where the light reflects upon the face when workng.

To another he recommended the dry cabinet sweat baths that carry the fumes in the respect of the releasing of iodine in the form of a substance called atomodine that these fumes would be absorbed by the body to be then followed by a massage with this combination of oils- to four oz. of Russian white oil add

Two oz of witch hazel
One oz of tincture of benzoin

Ten minims of oil of sassafras.

Massage thoroughly especially in the cervical area and the upper dorsal area. The brachial plexus,and the lumber plexus.

No heavy or red meats.
An alkaline forming diet including carrots.salisify,squash and the rind of Irish potatoes these to be had each day.

Also used was the radial appliance, a cayce invention recommended over 900 times in his information sheets.Cayce said the device was good for all bodies.

To another with poisoning or toxins,and also spinal misalignments
The first thing done was to treat the teeth and throat
Then osteopathic adjustments made to the 6th and 7th dorsal to the first cervical to bring those forces which were needed into alignment.

To another who had certain organs which were giving elimination problems. Specifically the kidneys, this and a sublaxation that exists in the lower dorsal has hindered the proper impulses of nerve and blood supply to the organs of the sensory system which has affected the optic nerve and the back of the eye itself.
First there should be some six osteopathic adjustments made to relive pressures to the 2nd 3rd and 4th dorsal and then the second series of adjustments would be to stimulate eliminations where those adjustments have been made.

Finally the next series should be corrections made to the lumber and dorsal to help the kidneys eliminate .

Adding to the system certain electrical treatments as specified by erlanger.
After a period of a few weeks more osteopathic adjustments were given to this lady
Finally finishing with an osteopathic dissipating adjustment.

A period then elapsed to which another reading was sought. Further adjustments were made and also adding the wet cell appliance another cayce invention mentioned many times in the information sheets the device was to be used with two solutions.

Namely a gold solution, two grains to each ounce of distilled water and the spirits of camphor these to be used on alternate days. The nickel pole should be in the right hand and the copper in the left hand for thirty minutes.

The gold is to increase the stamina of the nerves and the camphor to keep down irritations and work with the leukocytes in the blood.

To another who had been treated for glaucoma by conventional means, this lady was in excrutiating pain Cayce said there was incorrect activities from the adrenal glands and their effect on the kidneys, which had their effect on other organs, which produced slowness in the eliminations. The emphasis on eliminations is a crucial factor in maintaining good health in this case it was effecting the optic nerve.
For this person hydrotherapy treatment was suggested using the fume bath (a dry heat cabinet was used) first using one teaspoonful of atomodine in a pint of boiling water.The next bath was with two tablespoons of whitchazel in a pint of boiling water
Following the fume bath a through rub down was to be given followed by a hot and cold needle shower then another rubdown with a combination of oils which was olive oil 2oz peanut oil2oz lanolin (dissolved) I dram.Followed by an alcohol rub. Have four of these in two weeks.
After this the series was to begin again – osteopathic adjustments twice a week
Until there is a complete alignment of the cerebrospinal system this should be accomplished in 10 󈝻 adjustments.
The earlier diet is also recommended.

To another with similar problems the violet ray was added for three mins over the cerespinal system using the eye applicator.

Other additions were the radium treatment through the degnens lens which should be worn for between 1-20 mins three times a day with the eyes closed these were said to build replenish and will greatly aid the body.
Case 2774 a 48-yr old women was given the cayce regime which consisted of osteopathic adjustments, hydrotherapy and massage. The improvement was astounding her pain was greatly relieved and she acted like a different person.

For irritation to the eyes apply the irish potato poultice, scrape the potato and apply directly over the eye socket for between 30-60 mins remove and apply a solution of ½ glycothymoline and water as an antiseptic.

Case studies

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Glandular problems were found by cayce and disturbances arise which were related to the functioning of organs acted upon by the glandular forces, and eliminating problems. This may happen from a physical condition or a psychopathic condition or from a purely psychic condition, or a combination of these.
These are the reactions to the delicate organisms of the combination of influences between mind and body, spirit and mind, and the functioning purely of the sympathetic organisms of the body.

Cayce said there was a deflection from a pressure in the cerebrospinal system, and a
deflection in the activities of the eliminating forces of the body, related to the adrenal glands and their effect upon the kidneys. The effect upon the activity of the organs of the optic force itself produces an engorgement, which - with its very self - produces the slowness of eliminations through the optic forces themselves. Cayce said one of the eyes had suffered this and attempts to help the eliminations had not got at the cause and the condition had returned with more violence.

Adjustments in the cerebrospinal system of those deflections and sublaxations that exist in the areas of the 7th, 8th and 9th dorsal, in the upper portion of the 9th, and through the 1st and 2nd dorsals and through the cervical centers that reach directly to the optic forces. Have at least two osteopathic adjustments within at least two days of each other.

Also advised was hydrotherapy to produce coordinating activities in eliminations between the alimentary canal and the respiratory and perspiratory system, to relieve these disturbances, or to bring back to the body more of health-giving forces and allowing the poisons that accumulate to be eliminated through their normal channels. Operations may be prevented, vision could be improved.

Have a series of three or four of such thorough hydrotherapy treatments.
Use the Fume Bath first. Do not raise the temperature of the body too high. But within a Dry Heat Cabinet use the Fume Bath. For this body, we would have two the first week, - say one on Monday or Tuesday and the other on Friday or Saturday. In the first a teaspoonful of Atomidine in the pint of boiling water, so that the fumes settle over the body. In the last, or the next Fume Bath, use two teaspoonsful of Witchhazel in the pint of boiling water for the fumes. Following the Fume Bath have a thorough massage, followed by hot and cold needle shower. Then a rubdown with a combination of oils in these proportions:
Olive Oil..............2 ounces,
Peanut Oil.............2 ounces,
Lanolin, dissolved.....1 dram.

Follow this with the alcohol rub. Have four of these in two weeks.
Then begin again a series of osteopathic adjustments, twice a week - until there is complete alignment through the cerebrospinal system. This should be accomplished in at least ten to twelve to fifteen such adjustments.

Very importantly at least once each day have a raw, green vegetable as part of the diet; including especially grated carrots raw, with lettuce and celery, some beets, as well as mustard greens - if practical.

Plenty of cooked vegetables, and have more to those that grow above rather than those grown below the ground.

Q) Is anything wrong with sinuses? (A) Cayce said these would be corrected, if these other applications will be given. - these are deflected because they are a part of the pressures from the adrenals and the kidneys upon the poor coordination in the circulation.

Report
A doctors report
He found an inflammatory and congested condition from the 7th through the 9th dorsal vertebral region of her spine and in the cervical area, as you described in her reading. I treated this condition as you advised and she received relief after the first visit. She was treated 3 times that week and felt much better. The past 2 weeks she has been receiving the physiotherapy treatment (from Dr. Reilly) as advised. When she returned yesterday to me her improvement was astounding. Her pain has been greatly relieved and she, of course, acted like a different person. The pathology I found upon first examining this patient had improved and I look forward to much further improvement. I would like to make another report for you in a few weeks as to her condition, after she has received more treatment...

I treated her twice a week for 3 weeks. My technical diagnosis was cervical neuritis; I did not examine her eyes. The patient obtained marked relief from her pain after the first treatment and continued to improve. She went on her vacation with her husband and failed to return for further treatment. She seemed to get great benefit from the treatment; in fact, the response was quicker than I expected."

Prior to my visit to Virginia Beach during July 1967, I had great difficulty with vision in my one good (left) eye. (My right eye has been essentially blind since birth.) The symptoms included "double-vision", "halos" around point sources of light, "floating blind spots". I could not see sufficiently well to drive or to read normally. Visits to various local ophthalmologists, the Retina Institute in Boston, and Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, diagnosed the difficulties as due to optical refractions resulting from "corrugations" or "roughness" of the
surface of the cornea - cause unknown.
Anna, my wife, drove me to the Beach, where her reading of the Cayce files suggested that in several cases bearing a similarity to my symptoms, Cayce had recommended manipulations of the spine He introduced me to you (and I suspect exercised some persuasion on you to "inspect" my back). You very kindly gave me a "treatment” and instructed the resident masseur with respect to a continuing type of "massage", which I followed daily for the ensuing five days. By the end of the third day I could see well enough to read normally. By the end of the fifth day I could drive. On the seventh day I drove home to Connecticut. Ophthalmological examination on my return confirmed "no apparent" corrugations or roughness of the cornea. I have had no recurrence of the symptoms mentioned above to this date (September 30, 1968).
The facts are however, as I have stated them.

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Background
"He is fast losing his eyesight." [After effect of Whooping Cough when 8years old. Glaucoma.]