By Dr. Francesco Candeloro
In this section we will deal only with some of the most common disorders that may affect the eye, and which are of outpatient relevance, and of the general practitioner in particular, leaving out more complex situations, which still require a specialist visit before being able to intervene with the homeopathy only .
Main homeopathic remedies for eye disorders
BLAFERITE
Blepharitis is an inflammation of the eyelid margin, often of a viral or allergic nature, which can be complicated by the formation of characteristic point lesions, sometimes very annoying, known as styes.
Blepharitis proper can be relieved with a remedy such as Apis, whose general characteristic is an inflammation of a rosy color rather than bright red, which locally causes burning or stinging pains that find relief with cold applications .
However, when the area appears red and sore, especially in the early stages, Belladonna is preferred, while in the forms associated with intense pain and photophobia (keratitis) and are often consequent to exposure to ultraviolet rays, in the mountains or sea, Ruta graveolens will be indicated.
The appearance of sties, isolated, or in association with a blepharitis, refers to what is the main remedy of these lesions, namely Pulsatilla . When these showed a certain slowness in healing, and were associated with a local sensation of a foreign body, we would prefer Silicea, more suitable for long-limbed and easily fatigued subjects, while in more burly, and generally irresolute, individuals we will prefer Graphites, which presents a typical feeling of heaviness in the eyelid.
CALAZI
The lesions that we have just described can sometimes be even more complicated, or appear immediately in the form of chalks, inflammation of the sebaceous glands, with eyelid that, in particular cases, can also require surgery.
Also for these, as for the styes, an often useful remedy is Pulsatilla, above all in the initial phases of the glandular hardening, while in advanced phase we will prefer it Staphysagrya, characteristic remedy, among other things, of states of irritability and anger, or even of affliction, typically repressed.
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CONJUNCTIVITIS
Conjunctivitis is a frequent disorder, which may have viral or allergic origin, but then be complicated by bacterial overlaps, which modify the presentation of the initial picture. This, in fact, can present itself as a simple ocular redness, associated or not with lacrimation and photophobia, and become complicated precisely with the formation of a dense and yellowish secretion that typically occurs in the morning, and prevents the correct opening of the eyes.
Many of the aforementioned remedies will also be found in the various stages of conjunctivitis, and so Belladonna when the redness of the part prevails, Ruta when to this is added pain and photophobia due to exposure to ultraviolet rays, Euprhasia when the patient complains of intense lacrimation and photophobia, Pulsatilla in the early phase of exudation, Mercurius and Silicea in the advanced phase the first, and the latter persistent, Hepa sulfur in the convalescence phase.
In allergic forms, two other remedies will often be indicated and, more precisely, Apis when there is a sensation of itching or burning eyes, improved by cold applications, and Allium cepa, when the symptoms of rhinitis are greater than those of the eyes, they too however present in the typical picture of allergic rhinoconjunctivitis .
LOCAL TRAUMA
In all forms of reddened eye following a local trauma, and in which a blood extravasation is often formed which has difficulty regressing spontaneously (black eye), the most useful remedy will be Ledum Palustre.
Conclusions
The states described, and the proposed remedies, refer to acute or transitory situations, often preceded by prolonged exposure to the sun, sudden changes in time and temperature or even situations of physical overwork which diminish the resistance capacity of each organism.
As usual, however, all these pictures can present themselves in a recurring manner, certainly in the allergic forms, but also for simple individual predisposition.
In both these cases, then, it will be only a basic therapy, or constitutional, able to reduce the susceptibility to these states and, many of the cited remedies, including Pulsatilla, Stapphysagrya, Silicea, Mercurius solubilis and Hepar sulfur, will be used at this purpose, but also to treat general and emotional aspects of the person, in which often, precisely, local symptoms, particularly recurrent and characteristic, will confirm their prescription.
