And it is extremely difficult to apply CS directly to one's retina!

Marshall

Sally Khanna wrote:

> I knew someone who lost his eyesight from staring at the sun.  I know
> there is a yoga execrise which involves staring at the sun, but for
> brief periods.  I've been told the retina can get burned
> otherwise. Sally
>
> [email protected] wrote:
>
>      I used the red LEDs directly over my right and left eyes. I
>      took off the array when it got too hot which takes a few
>      min. The effect is everything is sharper and brighter in
>      these 40yr old eyes. My wife reports the same with her eyes
>      as well. I lost my fear of trying this when I read some
>      testimonies about people staring into the sun for short
>      periods and having there vision actually improve. There is a
>      story of a sadistic Korean doctor who forced American POWs
>      to stare at the sun for 10 hours a day during the Korean
>      war.. If they blinked they were threatened with death. They
>      all had better eyesight after a year and only suffered from
>      headaches and neck aches. Some no longer needed there
>      glasses. I also read the Univ, of Wisconsin Med school (Dr
>      Harry Whelan who also works for the Gov. an! d NASA) is
>      using LEDs in research testing to heal the eyes of blinded
>      mice using 670nm red LEDs. I would NOT put a red laser in my
>      eyes as the beam is far more concentrated and supposedly you
>      can overdose with lasers but not LEDs. After a while we may
>      hear of some people using lasers for eyesight improvement
>      but I am not ready to try that yet.
>      Steve
>
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