Glaucoma


Homeopathy treatment for Glaucoma from the Homeopathic Therapeutics by Lilienthal. Homeopathic remedies for the treatment of Glaucoma…


Aconite [Acon]

Pain extending down the face, as in faceache, after exposure to cold winds; eyeball feels as if it would be forced out of the orbit, (<) by motion or touch; intense photophobia; pupils contracted. Only at the beginning.

Asafoetida [Asaf]

Glaucoma, with severe boring pain over the eye and around it.

Belladonna [Bell]

Relieves the severe pain of glaucoma, especially if accompanied by throbbing headache and flushed face; eyes injected, pupils dilated, fundus hyperaemic and pain both in and around eye, severe and throbbing, may come and go suddenly, (<) afternoon and evening; eyes hot and dry, sensitive to light; halo around eye, red predominating; photophobia.

Bryonia [Bry]

Merc often indicated in prodromal stage; eyes feel full, as if pressed out, often with sharp, shooting pains through eye and head; eyes feel sore to the touch and on moving them in any direction; halo around light with heavy pain over eye, (<) at night; increased tension of ball; hot lachrymation.

Cedron [Cedr]

SEVERE CILIARY NEURALGIA, especially when the pains are distinctly periodical; severe shooting pains along the course of the supra orbital nerve; dilatation of the pupils, dimness of vision; eyes infected and sore to the touch.

Cimicifuga [Cimic]

CILIARY NEUROSIS; sense of enlargement of the globes; the eyes feeling as if they were pressed out of their sockets; congestive headaches.

Colocynthis [Coloc]

Severe burning, aching, sticking, cutting pains in and around the eye, always RELIEVED BY FIRM PRESSURE and by walking in a warm room, worse by stooping and by rest at night.

Conium [Con]

Dilatation of pupils with dimness of sight; feeling of pressure in the eyes when reading, writing or doing any fine work; photophobia; in scrofulous persons.

Gelsemium [Gels]

Choroidal and venous congestions, either with or without serous effusion. Amaurotic symptoms, with dilatation of pupils, disturbed accommodation, pain in eyes, with or without lachrymation.

Hamamelis [Ham]

Venous congestion, haemorrhoids, conjunctival vascularity ciliary neuralgia, photophobia, lachrymation.

Kali-iod [Kali-i]

Incipient glaucoma in syphilitic subjects; dull, discolored state of the iris; burning in eyes lachrymation, dilated pupils, amaurotic symptoms.

Nux-vomica [Nux-v]

Marked morning aggravation; ATROPHY OF OPTIC NERVE.

Phosphorus [Phos]

Improves vision and removes many objective symptoms after iridectomy;; fundus hyperaemic and hazy, halo around light, and various lights and colors (especially red) before eyes; sensation as if something were pulled tightly over the eyes; vision impaired, (>) in twilight.

Phytolacca [Phyt]

Dimness of sight; dull aching pains in eyes; worse from motion light or exercise; rheumatic or syphilitic cases.

Prunus-spin [Prun]

Pain severe, crushing in the eye, as if pressed asunder, or sharp shooting through the eye and corresponding side of the head. Aqueous and vitreous humor hazy; fundus hyperaemic.

Rhododendron [Rhod]

Incipient glaucoma, with much pain in and around the eye, periodic in character, and always worse just before a storm, ameliorated after the storm commences.

Spigelia [Spig]

Pains sharp and stabbing through the eye and head, worse on motion and at night.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
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.