Glaucoma and Homeopathy

Part XIV Homeopathy and Eye Problem 

Glaucoma:
An insidious disease characterized by increased tension within the eyeball, and gradual dimness of vision. If left untreated, it ends in blindness. Some of the symptoms are- a halo around candle-light, periodic dimness of sight, presbyopia, Aching pain in in the eyeball, Haziness of cornea etc. It may be acute or chronic, Symptoms of chronic condition being the same as that of acute one, but not so sharp.

Symptoms
In the beginning, after exposure to cold, dry wind, Pain extends over face, Eyeballs feel enlarged, as if coming out of the sockets.
Suggested Medicine:
Aconite

Symptoms
Excessive intolerance of light, Redness of eyes and face, Pain both in and around eyes, throbbing, may come and go suddenly, A sensation of weight and pressure in eyes.
Suggested Medicine:
Belladona

Symptoms
Eyes feel as if pressed out, often with sharp shooting pains through eyes and head, Eyes feel sore to touch and on moving them, Increased tension of eyeball.
Suggested Medicine:
Bryonia

Symptoms
Severe shooting pains along the course of supra-orbital nerve, particularly indicated when the pains are distinctly periodic.
Suggested Medicine:
Cedron

Symptoms
Intense aching pains in the eyeballs, Better by pressure, Worse by slightest motion, Ciliary's neuralgia.
Suggested Medicine:
Cimicifuga

Symptoms
Severe burning, aching, sticking, cutting pain in and around the eye, always relieved by firm pressure, and by walking in a warm room, worse by rest at night and by stooping, when it feels as if it would fall out.
Suggested Medicine:
Colocynth

Symptoms
Aching or pressure in eyes when reading, Weakness of vision, Photophobia, Sluggish adoption of the eye to varied range of vision.
Suggested Medicine:
Conium

Symptoms
Incipient glaucoma in syphilitic subjects, Vision dim and foggy, Burning in eyes.
Suggested Medicine:
Kali Iod

Symptoms
Halo around the light, and various lights and colors (especially red) flashing before the eyes, Sensation as if something were pulled tightly over the eye, Black spots before the eyes and diminished vision, better in twilight.
Suggested Medicine:
Phosphorus

Symptoms
In rheumatic and syphilitic cases, Dull aching in eyes, Worse from motion light or exercise, Far-sighted.
Suggested Medicine:
Phytolacca

Symptoms
Severe crushing pain in the eye as if pressed asunder, or sharp shooting pain extending through eye back into brain or through the eye and corresponding side of the head.
Suggested Medicine:
Prunus spin