BERBERIS



A feeling of stiffness in the eyes, with dragging (first and second days).

Bubbling sensation in the right eye lasting a quarter of an hour (eleventh day).

A bubbling sensation in the left eye, transient (after four hours, and also in the evening of third day).

Painfulness of the eyes (second day).

(*Most of the eye troubles seem to be aggravated in the open air; motion of the eyes aggravated the pain.*) Pain in the eyes, as after crying.

A somewhat painful sensation on beginning to read or write (seventh day).

A sensation in the eyes as if they were cold, as when one goes into the cold air, with some lachrymation on closing them (seventieth day).

Burning in the eyes, fro 12 o’clock (first day).

Burning sensation with dryness and redness in the eyes, with some matter in the canthi (seventeenth day).

Violent burning in the eyes which were very painful, especially on moving them (second day).

Burning in the eyes at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and at the same time a sensation as if sand were in them; they continued to get worse until she went to sleep; the left eye was worse than the right (first day).

Violent burning and dryness in the eyes with a dim look to them; great redness of the conjunctiva of the lids, and a dim, indistinct look, as if there were a mist before the eyes, in the morning after rising, for several hours (sixty-third day).

Troubles with the eyes increased towards afternoon, and especially in the evening; the eyes burn like fire and are very dry (third day).

Pressure in the eyes (after seven hours).

Pressure in the eyes, as if he had cried a long time. pressure and burning in the eyes (after two hours).

Pressure in both eyes, and pain on moving them, less during rest, accompanied by heat and burning in them (second day).

Sensation in the eyes as if they were forced our (second to fourth day).

Sticking in the eye, mostly coming from other parts, as drawing from the forehead or from the temples into the eyes, or rising in the eyes, and spreading hence to the forehead; usually sudden shooting stitches.

A digging-sticking pain lasting several minutes. beginning deep in the eye and extending obliquely across the middle of the upper orbital margin upward and outward into the forehead, first in the right, and soon after in the left eye (seventeenth day).

Several piercing stitches in the eyes.

Four stitches shoot from the eye outward into the forehead, so violent that she is frightened (seventeenth day).

A slight, sometimes sensitive tearing in the eyes.

Throbbing in the left eye, for a short time (after three hours).

External Parts.

Itching in the eyebrows, burning, biting or sticking, frequently returning, sometimes with fine burning, or burning- itching sticking.

Tensive sticking pain over the right orbit (ninth day).

Biting, fine sticking, and itching pain in the margins of the orbits, in the skin, especially in the inner canthus.

Tearing pain in the upper margin of the left orbit, extending towards the forehead (third day).

Tearing pain in the inner angle of the right orbit, extending towards the nose and forehead (fifteenth day).

Tearing in the bone in the margin of the orbits, especially the lower margin, frequently extending into the orbital cavity; sometimes it only begins to pain when touched (twenty-ninth day, et seq).

Tearing in the outer side of the left orbit, with tendency to lachrymation.

Several stitches from the left orbital margin shoot quickly to the right frontal eminence (after half an hour and ten hours).

Twitching in the region of the right upper orbital margin (second day).

The eyelids became much inflamed and swollen, especially the left (fourth and fifth days).

The eyelids are red on the inner surface, and in the margin covered with a white frothy-fluid (first day).

In the morning after rising, a fine white crusty substance on the dry margins of the lids.

The left eye was agglutinated in the morning (second day).

Twitching in the lids when reading by lamp light, seldom by daylight.

Heaviness in the lids on motion.

A feeling in the eyes as if there were two drops of cold water between the margins of the lids, or between the lids and the eyeballs.

In the inner angle of the left eye a feeling as if a foreign body were in; the lachrymal caruncle seemed somewhat inflamed; the conjunctiva in the inner canthus was very dry.

In the morning, after rising, a sticky sensation in the margin of the lids.

Sensation of dryness in the lids if they are closed (after two hours).

Fine burning or biting at different small spots on the lid.

Pinching-tearing pain in the eyelids (sixty-third day).

Tearing drawings and twinges in the lids.

Fine sticking, a very sensitive pain on the border of the left upper lid rather towards the outer part, as from a needle, lasting one-half minute twice in succession; it then becomes a burning.

Biting pain beneath the right lower lid.

Tearing in the upper lids.

Tearing in the lower lid of the left eye.

Crawling-biting sensation on the margin of the right lower lid repeatedly, becoming a twitching, bubbling sensation in the lid, several times repeated in a quarter of an hour.

Itching in the lids, at times burning, biting or fine sticking, seldom smarting.

Itching in the canthi; at times biting or sticking.

The conjunctiva of the margin of the lids is very red, and also the sclerotic (second day).

Ball and Vision.

Painful tearing in the left eyeball, intermittent, extending obliquely from above downward and outward, lasting two minutes.

At times the vision is somewhat dim; it seems better near than far.

The eyes become dim and felt as though she should soon go to sleep (first day).

Sensitiveness of the eyes to bright sunlight at times, though not very great.

Daylight blinded her more than lamp light (second day).

It she wishes to look at anything fine, she is obliged to hold her hand before he r eyes to shield them from the daylight, and still more from the lamp light, which blinds her (third day).

If she exert the eyes in sewing, it becomes black before them (third day).

She was not able to see, because everything seemed to run together (second day).

Ears

Below and behind the right ear, a small swelling of the size of a hazel-nut, not very painful, apparently a swollen cutaneous gland (fourth to eleventh day).

On the left external ear, near the head in the skin, a pimple of the size of a millet-seed, painful to touch; it disappears after six or seven days (fortieth day).

Great heat in the left outer ear, then after one and a half hours great coldness of the same and of the temples (after eight hours).

Tensive, violent stitching-pressing pain, with sticking in the right ear, as if something were digging in the ear, lasts half a minute in the evening (seventeenth day).

Drawing pain in the ears, ending in several stitches lasting several minutes, frequently during the day (eighteenth day).

Pressive pain with stitches in the right ear, as if something were digging in it, lasting half a minute in the evening (seventeenth day).

Pressing-sticking pain starts from the side of thee throat below the jaw, quickly passes out of the ear with a slight or severe stitch, especially upon the left side (eleventh day).

A piercing-sticking pain in the right ear, in slow stitches, as if a powerful animal were in the ear and stung with a thick stung, in the afternoon at 5 o’clock for a quarter of an hour (seventeenth day).

A long jerk like stitch in the right ear, as if it came out through the drum, when at work, while sitting, as if a nail were forced through, or as if a living, stinging animal were in the ear, so violent and surprising that she starts up and involuntarily grasps the ear, with fine digging stitches between the pains, with a sensation as if the ear were full and dragged downward, lasting from ten minutes to a quarter of an hour (seventh and fifteenth days, as also at other times).

Tearing-sticking in internal ears, alternating with the same symptoms in other parts of the head (eleventh day, and frequently).

Drawing stitches deep in the right ear from below upward, lasting about twenty seconds.

Tensive violent stitches in the right ear from without inward.

Several stitches in the right ear (second day).

Moderate pressive stitches in slow sensitive jerks deep in the right ear for a minute, repeated after a quarter of an hour; then, after half an hour, tearing in the antitragus fro half a minute (twenty-fifth day).

About fifteen bubbling stitches in the left ear from without inward, at last a continued stitching, then changing to pressure, then a stopped sensation for half a minute (sixty-fifth day).

Two stitches, as with fine thorns, in the left ear (after three hours).

Pressive, painless throbbing and whizzing in the left, seldom in the right ear, in quickly following shocks, two to fifteen in number, as if the air or the wing of a bird struck against the drum, with a feeling of dryness and coldness in the ear, very frequently repeated (thirtieth, thirty-second, fortieth, and one hundred and first days).

Tearing in the bone behind the left ear.

A slight tearing in the external ears.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.