MD Cause: Unknown. In an unapologetic nod to circular definitions, here’s what the MDs say about glaucoma: “Glaucoma is an umbrella term for eye diseases that make pressure build up inside your eyeball, which can damage delicate, critical parts at the back of your eye. Glaucoma is caused by damage to your optic nerve. It can occur without any cause, but many factors can affect the condition. The most important of these risk factors is intraocular eye pressure.” So, in other words - glaucoma is a disease that is characterized by an increase of pressure inside the eye that is caused by an increase of pressure inside the eye.

MD Rx: Drugs and surgery to suppress/manage eye pressure.

ND Cause: The eyeball is like a house. There are pipes that carry fluid in (water main) and pipes that carry fluid out (sewer line). When the vessels the eye that carry fluid out of the eye become clogged, the pressure in the eye increases.

Discussion: The same thing that clogs the blood vessels in the heart and kidney clogs the vessels in the eye: Inflammation Caused by Free Radicals. The treatment gestalt is to stop eating foods that cause inflammation, ingest supplements that neutralize Free Radicals and others that unclog the vessels in the eye.

My RX: In addition to the 90 EN and the elimination of the 12 Bad Foods:

• Selenium: one bottle per 100 pounds per month not to exceed more than four bottles a month. Take in divided doses 2 to 3 times a day until the flare up of the gout resolves.

• Good Herbs Circulatory Support:     

  • 50 - 150 pounds: Take 1/2 teaspoon 4 times a day.

  • 150 - 250 pounds: Take 1 teaspoon 4 times a day.

  •  250-350 pounds: 3 bottles a month. Take 1 1/2 teaspoons 4 times a day.

• Beyond Tangy Tangerine 2.0 Tablets: 1 bottle per month. 4 capsules daily.

• Hawthorne Leaves 1:2 by Medi Herb (Found in Fullscript): 5ml once daily