Cataract

The Lens Goes The Victim

Yes, The lens goes the victim!

In a cataract, the proteins in the lens of which it is made up, start coagulating and hence clouding its transparency.

What an irony! A structure ruining its own function!

But then, isn't all disease in itself the same irony? A structure ruining its own function!?

Why does the lens go against itself, especially with the growing age?

You simply can't ward them off by calling them mere exceptions.

Even if a single exception is there, the rule gets challenged!

Why do the proteins in the lens start coagulating in the first place?

Ophthalmology puts many conditions responsible for being the risk factors.

But only the factors - the probabilities, not the sure-shot reasons!

• Diabetes is the first one to blame.

• Second comes exposure to ultraviolet light or to the cosmic radiations.
• Excessive salt intake is another factor doubted to be the precipitating agent.

• Intake of steroids, diuretics and tranquilizers are also under the fire of doubt.

• Then there are cigarette smoking and air pollution to be blamed too.

• Heavy alcohol consumption and lead exposure are also considered to be risk factors.

Aren't we working more statistically than on the real scientific lines?

• Nuclear cataract forming in the center of the lens.

• Cortical cataract forming in the lens cortex first and then moving to the center.

• Subcapsular cataract forming at the back of the lens and then spreading to the rest of it.

They don't affect you overnight but develop slowly and gradually over years, going on affecting vision in the process; first causing blurs and glares in the vision but later blocking it fully altogether.

In the words of Dr. W.H.Bates, the famous American ophthalmologist:

'I would not have ventured to predict that glaucoma, incipient cataract and syphilitic iritis could be cured by central fixation; but It is a fact that these conditions have disappeared when central fixation was attained. Relief was often obtained in a few minutes, and, in rare cases, this relief was permanent. Usually, however, a permanent cure required more prolonged treatment.'

Does that mean that not being centrally fixated leads to its formation? And the moment central fixation is regained it starts dissolving itself?

Dr. Bates could be anything but a liar!

It's only that he didn't physically know how central fixation could bodily be achieved immediately - without fail - any and every time, whenever called for, and with whomsoever!

He rather depended on the mental faculty to achieve the same, which could not deliver clear-cut results every time since mind, unlike body, is an abstract entity and not a concrete one!

Third eye opening is no different from achieving central fixation. Vision therapy recognizes this fact and is currently working in that direction only, but at the level of the body and not the mind.

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