Abstract

NATURAL MEDICAMENTS IN OPHTHALMOLOGY: POTENT AND HIDDEN SOURCE FOR OCULAR DISORDERS

Pratibha Upadhyay* and Dr. Shamsa Fiaz

Abstract

Ophthalmology is one of the emerging branches in science that is reaching to the sky in context to its diagnostic, and treatment procedure and surgical inventions, although we are lagging behind in making complete cure of the new emerging diseases, like retinopathies, refractive errors, corneal pathologies, that create hindrance in our goal of eradicating blindness as these are increasing day by day .so the world is facing back towards the ancient science that has better medications and easy cost effective cure for such diseases, ayurveda science rely on the herbs for the treatment of diseases, so here we just go through very common herbs that are beneficial in eye diseases in on or the other way.

Keywords: ayurveda, herb, shalakya, ocular diseases.