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Good nutrition and medicinal plants offer natural remedies to help the eye heal from illness and improve their functionality.
The presence of tannins and flavonoids in the extract of special blueberry, belonging to the family of Ericaceae, makes this fruit a good therapeutic treatment for cases of cataracts, macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, and hemorrhagic retinopathy.
Treating conjunctivitis is no longer a problem if you use chamomile of the family Asteraceae, with that apigenin and azulene present in it, it is a powerful anti-inflammatory.
The alkaloid berberine of goldenseal, belonging to the family of Ranunculaceae, has strong anti infectious and this is highly indicated in cases of eye infection trachoma.
The French maritime pine bark, belonging to the family of Pinaceae, is widely used in the treatment of retinal vascular diseases, due to the effect of inducing vasodilation and increased blood flow in the microcirculation.
This article is only a small hint to the possible therapeutic applications in herbal medicine and nutrition have in cases of ophthalmic diseases.

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The lazy or eye Amblyopia is one of the most important sensory abnormalities in childhood, is defined as uni-or bilateral visual deficits and it can not be justified with a damage of the sensorineural apparatus. The most common forms of amblyopia are squint amblyopia and anisometric.
The squint amblyopia is always unilateral and is caused by active inhibition in the retinocortical network visual impulse that originates in the fovea of the eye deviated. This inhibition is the consequence and not the cause of strabismus, and is determined by the superimposition of images foveal visual centers in different transmitted from the retina of the eye and the eye deviated fixative.
The anisometric amblyopia also occurs active inhibition of sensory fovea to eliminate the interference caused by overlapping an image in focus and a blurred, originating from the fixation point.
Amblyopia is a loss of physiological superiority of the fovea. This superiority is characteristic in the photopic state.
There are grounds to conclude that the portion of the central retina of the eye partially sighted acts as if the adjustment of the cone system, which occurs in adapting to darkness, was also retained in the photopic state. The mechanism responsible for this behavior may reside in a disinhibition of the fovea due to reduced lateral inhibition.
Recent scientific studies, according to multiple significance of our studies, conducted at centers that are involved FitoNat and amblyopic patients, demonstrates that if patients with amblyopia are treated pharmacologically with cytidine 5-difosfocolina, or follow a diet based Foods rich in choline, sensory recover completely from this anomaly.
Also present in many foods, choline is synthesized in the body through the interaction of vitamin B12 and folic acid with the amino acid methionine.
Choline easily crosses the blood-brain barrier to reach the central nervous system, where you embed directly to the phospholipid fraction of membranes and microsomes, thereby increasing levels of key neurotransmitters norepinephrine, dopamine, acetylcholine and directly improves brain metabolism through several mechanisms:
- Supports cognitive function and facilitates communication between neurons;
- Supports brain metabolism mitochondrial activity in neurons;
- Initiates and maintains the quality biosynthesis of phospholipids that constitute one third of brain tissue;
- Helps maintain memory and cognitive function of supporting rates of acetylcholine and thus the normal activity of nerves that respond to acetylcholine.

Choline is also used in the treatment of glaucoma as well as in the case of fatty liver, cirrhosis, hepatitis, renal hemorrhage, nephritis, atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries and Alzheimer's disease.