HOMOEOPATHY IN DISEASES OF EYES ��
In infants, infection of the eyes with Gonococci is quite common. The child contacts it through birth canal while being born and Alumina is the commonly indicated medicine (for adults Aco, Apis, Arg nit, Calc hypo., Hepar sulph., Merc sol., Puls., Spig and Sulphur are the commonly indicated medicines).
Excessive watering from the eyes which is due to blockage (Stricture Lachrymalis) in drainage passages is sometime seen in infants. It is usually in one eye and starts a few days after birth. Such watering if present since birth, is amenable to medicine therapy.
Watering or stricture of Lachrymal duct
Euphrasia: Much thick, yellow, acrid discharge making the lid sore and excoriated.
Hepar sulph: Stricture closed by exudative swelling, after pus has formed or in blennorrhoea with great sensitiveness to touch and cold, also profuse discharge.
For adults Argenticum met, Merc sol, Nat-mur, Silicea, and Stanum are the medicines.
Childhood:
Playing with pen, pencil, and other pointed objects in school-going child can cause damage to the eyes. Such incidents need Arnica, Calendula, and Ledum.
In very small children, cross eye or "squint" is sometimes observed. One very important reason being: eyeball of the child at birth is 17 mm long. At 7 years of age it becomes normal i.e. 24 mm. During this period, child is hypermetropic i.e. long sightedness. Being hypermetropic, he accommodates all the times and accommodation produce convergence. For this reason, some of the child start squinting and eye turns inward. The condition needs a very consistent and long-term approach. Delay may lead to partial blindness of one eye.
Squint or Strabismus or cross eyes.
Chin sulph: Squint is intermittent and on alternate days.
Chel: Convergent in children.
Cic: Cyclamen, Cina, Nat. phos, Spigelia according to indication of squint with worms history.
If a periodic and of a spasmodic in character, or caused by convulsions, after a fall or blow.
Nat mur: Divergent squint, following inflammatory rheumatism, eyes parallel for one day then squint comes on from fatigue more marked in hot weather and worse in winter.
Nux vomica: Squint with diplopia, worse from mental excitement or caused by injury.
Stram. : Squint in cholera infantum, from mental emotions, epilepsy, terror or fear, etc.
Medicines, such as Agaricus, Alum., Amygdala, Calc., Calc. phos., Lys, Camphor, Chel., Cina, Colc., Dig., Eryng., Jab., Kali br., Kali-phos., Lyco., Mag phos., Merc., Morph., Phos., Sulphur, Syphilinum, Tarentula, Ver. v, Zinc, etc. are used both for children and grownup.
Some other Eye diseases of the children
Stye or acne hordeolum
Cal carb: Styes leave induration.
Causticum: Sticking as with needles in moving in morning, old styes swell.
Conium: Styes recur, becomes indurated, inflame.
Hep sulph: If suppuration has commenced with throbbing or pulsating pain, great sensitiveness to touch and amelioration by warmth.
Phosphorus: Styes especially in the lower eyelid, if ears get well otorrhea.
Puls: Styes with conjunctivitis, ciliary blephritis, now in one then in the other canthus with drawing tensive pains in eyes on moving muscles of face, with ulcerated nostril, if given early before the formation of pus, will often cause to abort. As a remedy for successive crop. It is specially useful if depended upon gastric derangement and accompanied by acne of face, also when found in amenorrhic female especially on the upper eyelids.
Rhus tox: Styes over eyelids in the early stage when there oedematous swelling of the lids.
Sepia: Styes with redness of eyes. Repeated styes form indurations (tumor) and form indurations.
Staphisagria: Styes one after another, on the right and left upper lids, severe pain, confined to dark room and usually to bed. Amelioration by application of cold water. Stye remains a hard nodule or hard nodule form stye.
Sulphur: Recurrence of successive crops.
Some other medicines for styes are: Acid phos., Alum, Amonium carb, Aurum sulph., Baryta carb., Cal. flour., Colchicum., Cypripediu..
