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PHOTOPHOBIA

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Arsenicum Ars

Sensitive to light, especially sunlight; shuts her eyes as if she could not keep them open, everything appears green.

Belladonna Bell

Halo of various colors around the flame; red spots, mist, or darkness before the eyes, diplopia and decrease of sight.

Cina Cina

Suitable to scrofulous children, that wet their beds frequently, and to onanists.

Conium Con

Pale redness of the eyeball, with congested vessels of the conjunctiva, suitable to scrofulous subjects.

Euphrasia Euphr

Headache, the light of the candle seeming to be dark and to flicker.

Graphites Graph

Chronic ophthalmia with excessive photophobia and red swollen eyelids.

Ignatia Ign

Pressure in the eyes, with lachrymation, and without any other perceptible symptoms.

Lac defloratum Lac-d

Great photophobia, even candle light unbearable; dim sight, can only see lights, not objects.

Natrum sulph Nat-s

Aversion to light with the terrible photophobia, can hardly open eyes, light of room causes headache, distress and many pains.

Pulsatilla Puls

Bright circle around the candle-light, with dimness of sight as if through something than can be rubbed off; diplopia, or obstruction of sight.

Staphisagria Staph

Blackness or scintillations before one's eyes, or flames, especially at night, or halos around the candlelight, with dimness of sight.

Veratrum Verat

Black motes or sparks before the eyes, with diplopia.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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