AKSHI TARPAN
Special Procedures
In this process, medicated ghee is retained over eyes for 15-20 minutes.
How it is done?
The patient is to be advised to lie down in supine position. Gentle massage is to be done on head, eyes and face. A trough is to be made with this dough around both eyes, approximately 2 cm in height around the eyes.
Medicated ghee (a little below body temperature but in liquid form) is to be filled inside the trough. It is to be kept for 15-20 minutes and then the ghee is to be collected by the gauze. The face should be wiped off with clean dry towel. Thereafter eyes should be covered with the leaves of lotus or petals of rose and the patient is to be advised to sit away from the sunlight for a day.
Duration:
It may be done for 7 to 14 days.
Benefits :
• This process may nourish the structures in the eyes.
• It strengthens the optic nerve.
• Useful in Ophthalmological conditions Xeropthalmia Optic nerve atrophy.