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eyes/ears/nose/throat
iritis
homeopathy
remedy differential
Aconitum napellus: traumatic; first stage or sudden reappearance; ciliary injection marked; pupils contracted; severe beating and throbbing pain especially at night; great heat and dryness of eyes; fever
Arsenicum album: < night; serous iritis with periodic burning pains; < at night, after midnight; > by warm application
Asafoetida: more applicable to females; syphilitic iritis or after abuse of Mercurius solubilis; pains severe in eye, above it, in temples, of a throbbing, pulsating, pressing, burning and stitching character, and tend to be periodic; pains from within outwards, relieved by rest and pressure; soreness of bones around the eyes; > pressure on the eyeball
Aurum metallicum: syphilitic iritis, after overdosing with Mercurius solubilis or potash; pain deep in the bones surrounding the eyes; tearing, pressing, often extending into the eyeballs, with burning heat esp. when opening eyes; pain from above downwards and from without inwards; < touch; mental depression, bone pains in other parts of body; > by warmth
Belladonna: traumatic; early stages, caused from cold, with much redness and
throbbing pain in eye and head; congestion of conjunctiva, ciliary neuralgia, photophobia
Cinnabaris: syphilitic iritis; condylomata on iris and lids; pain commences at inner canthus and extends across the brow and even passes around the eye; shooting pain through the eye into the head, especially at inner canthus or soreness along the course of the supra-orbital nerve and corresponding side of head; < night
Clematis: with adhesions; much heat and dryness of eye, great sensitivity to cold air, to light and bathing
Colchicum: rheumatic cases, with great soreness of the eyeballs
Colocynthis: sharp cutting pains in the eyeballs and then extending up into the head; eye on stooping feels as if it would fall out; profuse acrid tears
Euphrasia: rheumatic, with constant aching and occasional darting pain in eye, always worse at night; ciliary injection, photophobia, aqueous humor cloudy, and iris discolored and bound down by adhesions; iris reacts very tardily to light; the pains are burning, stinging, shooting in character, with acrid lachrymation
Hepar sulphur: kerato-iritis, ciliary body involved; pus in anterior chamber from rupture of a condyloma; pressing, boring, and throbbing pains, > by warmth, < from motion, eye very tender to touch; photophobia, great tenderness of conjunctiva, lids red, swollen, spasmodically closed
Kali bichromicum: is indicated later, when has been exudation posteriorly between iris and crystalline lens, causing adhesions of structures to each other; characteristic is indolence; little or no photophobia and not a very decided redness attending the inflammation
Mercurius solubilis: night aggravates, with hypopyon; all forms of iritis; pains severe, tearing, boring, cutting, worse at night and in damp weather; much heat around eye and soreness of corresponding side of head; acrid lacrimation; pupil contracted and overspread by a thin bluish film, with great tendency to formation of adhesions to the lens; iris discolored, ciliary injection; lids red, swollen, spasmodically closed
Mercurius corrosivus: < night, with adhesions, with hypopyon; burning, agonizing, pains, with most excessive photophobia and profuse excoriating lacrimation, making the cheeks sore, almost taking the skin off; tearing pains in the bones around the eye; ulceration of the cornea with tendency to perforation
Nitric acid: with adhesions; suppressed syphilis; gonorrheal keratoiritis; pressing, stinging pains, < by change of temperature, at night
Rhus toxicodendron: < night, rheumatic, traumatic; idiopathic, rheumatic iritis, from exposure to wet; suppurative iritis of traumatic origin, as after cataract extraction; lids edematous, spasmodically closed, upon opening them tears gush out profusely; chemosis, photophobia, varied pains, < after midnight and in damp weather; vesicular eruptions on corresponding side of face; more often attacks right eye, and the pus is thinner; rheumatic iritis, pains darting from the eye through to the occiput, with great deal of restlessness
Sulphur: < night; adhesions; chronic iritis in scrofulous persons; after suppression of eruptions.
Terebinthina: with adhesions; rheumatic iritis, urinary symptoms; suppressed foot sweat
Thuja occidentalis: with hypopyon; syphilitic, marked by condylomata on iris; severe, sharp, stitching pains in eyes, < night, warmth; heat above and around eye; tearing, dull brow ache, as if a nail were driven in
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