Rub palms in the morning

Topic: Rub our palms, warm up eyes and then open our eyes slowly when we wake up in the morning.



Myth: Its just a practice in our culture from our ancestors to do so and hence we carry on with it or just neglect saying this is just a superstition.



Reason: Eyes have two types of photoreceptors - Rods and Cones. Rods detect the light where as cones distinguish the colors - red, blue and green. Cones are non functional in the dark and hence in the night if we are in sudden dark our eyes strain out and even same when we are out of sudden dark. This is because it takes a fraction of minute for the cones to become active. Similarly when we are asleep these photoreceptors are in a rested state, if we suddenly open eyes they will be strained out. When I was kid (about 10-15 yrs back), my observation says sight defect was prominent for middle and old aged people(which was a gradual loss of function) but now a days we can observe even small kids have a high sightedness defects. This happens because kids are stressed more now a days and eyes are not cared properly. One step of care to protect eye is to rub our palms and warm up our eyes when we getup (not only in the morning) from sleep. This activity makes our eyes warm, so that this heat activates the photoreceptors present in eyes. Just observe the changes in the eye health by practicing this activity for atleast 3 months (personal experience is good).