Podcast 229: Q&A

In this episode, I am answering a question I received about Horner's Syndrome. It's a condition that affects the pupils of the eye and the eyelids and sometimes even the muscles in the face. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, castor oil, pupil, face, inflammation, nerves, eyelids, cranial, tissue, meridian, helpful, vibrate, circulation, affect, called, functional medicine doctor, palm, longtime listener, massage, condition Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, it's Dr. Sam, I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. I'm going to take one question today. This is from Jesse's a longtime listener, he is developed a condition called Horner syndrome. This affects the pupils of the eye can also affect the eyelids. And he can even affect the muscles in the face. It's quite difficult to diagnose and you want to go to an ophthalmologist or a neuro ophthalmologist who can test you to see what your pupil responses are. Now, the pupils are the gatekeeper that allow light into the eye. You know, the pupil gets smaller as we go out into bright light and it will dilate as we dim the lights. And in Horner syndrome, there can be pain associated in our eyes, it also can affect the droopiness of the eyelids, we call this toeses. Again, you want to rule out things like tumors, trauma, stress, inflammation. And the other thing that I take take a look at is just our overall circulation to the eyes. So you can do an imaging test. Sometimes an MRI can show a tumor or a lesion, which can explain this underlying cause of the irregular pupil response. But from a more holistic, integrative medical perspective, here are some things that I suggest and recommend. Well, first of all, I think that getting some cranial sacral therapy can be very helpful. You know, when you do the cranial work, what you're doing is you're creating spaciousness in the fascia and the connective tissue, especially if you're working on the head and around the eyes. And if you can develop a kind of a more expansive cranial rhythm, that's the cerebral spinal fluid pumping in and out of the brain, and it's going to affect the eye circulation. This is a technique that I feel is very helpful at reducing irritation in the nerves, inflammation, stress trauma. So it's, it's my number one go to in terms of this particular condition. The second thing that I would consider would be some acupuncture. You know, acupuncture doesn't necessarily treat symptoms, but it opens up the meridians in the entire body and we know that many of the energy meridians traveled to and from the eyes, and they go to the glands and the organs in the entire body. And when you open up the meridian energy, this can sometimes help increase the function of the nerves reduce pain, and it's a great modality in terms of creating more harmony and balance in the eyes, brain and body. The third thing that I would suggest would be to use castor oil, especially in the evening, you can get some organic castor oil, I like to massage it into the face. Also you can take a dropper to and massage it lightly into the eyelids. There's so many great benefits of castor oil, you know, it's an ancient Egyptian modality that's been used. In current times castor oil has been shown to actually be wound healing, reduce inflammation irritation in the skin.