Cineraria Maritima

      Senecio Cineraria. Dusty Miller. *N. O. Compositae. Tincture or succus of the fresh plant, growing wild, gathered just before the flower-buds open.

Clinical

Cataract. Corneal opacity.

Characteristics

This is an unproved drug, but it has been used with a good deal of success in cases of cataract as an external application. The method adopted is to instill one drop, four or five times a day, into the eye affected, and to keep this up for several months. Traumatic cataract and corneal opacities, as well as senile cataract, have been removed in this way. I have seen no reports of cures by internal use of the remedy alone, but in some cases it was given internally as well as used externally. Generally the patients have received specific homoeopathic treatment internally at the same time.

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica