Aconite [Acon]
Sudden and complete blindness, with anguish bitter complaints and reproaches; fear of death; total blindness after catching cold: vision as if through a veil, difficult to distinguish faces, with anxiety and vertigo; optical illusions in dark colors or black.
Agaricus [Agar]
Feeling of weakness in eyes without having exerted them; indistinct sight; focal distance changes while reading, first grow shorter, then longer, types seems to move, things look obscure as from turbid water; muscae volitantes; vibrating spectra; nystagmus; if she grasped at any object held before her, the hand did not generally come near it; diplopia from over work at the desk; frequent twitching in eyeball while reading.
Ammoniacum [Ammc]
Dimness and obstruction of sight in the evening, amounting almost to blindness; amblyopia after a blow.
Anacardium [Anac]
Flickering before the eyes during the day, blind at night; indistinct vision; blackness before eyes, with vertigo.
Antimonium-sulph-aurat [Ant-s]
Amaurosis in the beginning; iris protruding.
Antimonium-tart [Ant-t]
Vertigo with flickering before eyes; amblyopia after strong emotion; eyes feel tired, as if the lids would close; dim swimming eyes.
Argentum-met [Arg-m]
Amaurosis of left eye, contracted pupil, insensible to light.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
Sight vanishes while reading or writing; at twilight feels as if he would become blind; fiery bodies flash before his eyes; pupils insensible to light; complete but transitory blindness; yellowish complexion; taciturn and apathetic.
Arnica [Arn]
Diminution of visual power, everything looks dim pupils dilated; loss of sight after violent blow.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Loss of vision from use of tobacco; retinitis albuminuria; everything as through a white gauze.
Asafoetida [Asaf]
Mist before eyes; boring pain above the eyebrow; burning pain in eyeballs; of syphilitic origin.
Aurum-met [Aur]
Hemiopia, black spots floating before eyes; tension in eyes, sees things double or mixed up, (<) from straining eyes; strong pressure from within outward and from above downward in both eyeballs; accompanied by heavy, dull aching deep in both globes; sudden amaurosis after scarlatina and during childbed (Aurum mur.).
Baryta-carb [Bar-c]
Amblyopia of old people; weakness of eyes, especially in the evening by candlelight; during the day a cloud before the eyes; after a meal, sensation as of a gauze before eyes.
Belladonna [Bell]
Amaurosis, with much vertigo, pressing pain and feeling of fullness in eyeballs; black spots before eyes; apoplexy of retina; half open, protruding, starting eyes; pupils contracted or dilated; from a cold, from stoppage of menses, from suppression of exanthemata; flashes of light before eyes; flickering before eyes diplopia and triplopia; optic neuritis, veins large; flashes of light before eyes and pains in head.
Bovista [Bov]
Blindness of right eye from paralysis of the optic nerve; weak eyes, without lustre or snap; sensation as of a veil before eyes in morning; all her visual perception is distorted.
Cactus-grand [Cact]
Weakness of sight appearing periodically; hyperaemia of fundus, sight blurred, cannot see at distance.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Mistiness of sight, gauze before the eyes, especially when reading, or after eating, with black motes before the eyes, EXTREME PHOTOPHOBIA, with dazzling of the eyes by light; DILATED PUPILS; pressure or feeling of coldness in the eyes. Affections of onanists or drunkards.
Capsicum [Caps]
Pupils dilated eyes protruding; aching in eyes as from a foreign body; red, burning and inflamed eyes; red face; objects appear black, dim vision; anguish, capriciousness, homesickness.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Weak eyes from overwork or fine work; eyes dull, lustreless, pupils do not react to light; black floating spots before eyes; heavy weight seems to rest upon eyes; must make exertion to distinguish letters when reading.
Causticum [Caust]
For sudden and frequent loss of sight, with sensation as if a pellicle were stretched over the eyes; or dimsightedness as if looking through a cloth or mist; black threads or mists; scintillations; photophobia.
Chelidonium [Chel]
Retinitis apoplectica, amblyopia with vomiting and coma; dimness of vision and weakness of sight from rheumatic troubles or after suppression of ringworm; when reading or writing, letters run together and seem blurred; blackish-gray specks before eyes.
China [Chin]
Amblyopia consequent upon venereal excesses and intoxication, after masturbation; in drunkards; nocturnal blindness; hemeralopia; after loss of blood or other fluids; tendency of blood to head; dilated, not very sensitive pupils; letters pales, surrounded by white borders; black motes before eyes;((>)) after sleeping.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.