The cure is to blink your eyes as rapidly as possible, concentrating on shutting them snappily. Keep blinking for 5 secs and build up time to at least 10 secs.
Tears are made by cranial nerve 7, which also makes spit. And cranial nerve 7 innervates the muscles that squeeze our eyes shut and pull our face into a smile. So activate this cranial nerve and the problem will improve and eventually go away.
This is really simple stuff! Quite why doctors’ first line of attack for dry eye is eye drops is completely beyond me.
Someone came to me suffering from appalling dry eye, twitchy eyelids and also a lack of spit – the whole throat quite dry. This person was referred to Moorfields, who, quite rightly, referred them onto a neurologist and referred them for botox injections. The neurologist examined them and said nothing could be done. This still leaves me speechless. So the person went back to Moorfields who were proposing various things like injecting someone else’s plasma – but nothing was happening at any speed, of course.
The botox injections did not help. In fact, that is the worst thing you could do in this case. Everything is pointing to a struggling cranial nerve VII, and sometimes when nerves are struggling they over fire to keep themselves alive – hence the uncontrollable fluttering eyelids.
So this person wound up with me. After some serious cranial nerve 7 activations, they went back to Moorfields – who declared they didn’t need to do anything now because the eyes were so much better.
What is it like living on the frontier of new knowledge? Frustrating. The problem with applied neurology, which is what I do, is the application is often very simple. This means an excellent and extremely effective drill can be disregarded in favour of drugs – or other therapies that seem ‘bigger’. All problems start and end in the brain, and the only person who can change that is the owner of the brain. All we need is the will to change – plus an awful lot of knowledge. Whilst the drills are very simple to do, which drill to do and how to put them together for best effect is quite another matter.
But for now, if dry eyes are a problem, simply opening and shutting the eyes quickly will cure the problem. Simples..