Natrum Muriaticum - Eyes symptoms - T.F. Allen

EYES

Eyes

Objective.

Eyes slightly red and watery (fifth day),

Some redness of the white of the eye (third day),

Redness of the white of the eyes, with lachrymation (third and fourth days),

Redness and inflammation of the white of the eye, with a feeling as if the balls were too large, and compressed,

Inflammation of the eyes, and lachrymation, in every slight wind,

Giving out of the eyes (second day),

The eyes give out on reading; with a pressure in the right eye, extending into the head, disappearing on walking about the room (ninth day),

The eyes give out on writing (twelfth day),

Subjective.

On blowing the nose, it seemed to blow into the left eye, and, indeed, a spot on the upper lid, by the inner canthus, seemed distended with air, and he thought, especially the first time, that something had come out of the eye; afterwards the spot remained painfully sore, especially to touch; in the afternoon (second day),

Feeling of dryness, with pressure in the inner canthi, in the evening,

Sensitive dry sensation in the eyes, as after weeping a long time, while riding in a carriage (fourth day),

Feeling as though the left eye were smaller than the right (third day),

Pain as from a foreign body in the eyes,

Left eye burns at 12.30 P.M.; both eyes feel hot, in the evening (third day),

Burning in the eyes, with increased secretion of mucus; the lids are agglutinated in the morning, with great sensitiveness to lamplight,

Burning in the right inner canthus, provoking rubbing (twelfth day),

Burning pain in a small point in the eye,

Violent burning in the eyes in the evening (seventeenth day),

(Dry burning in the eyes, in the evening, when writing), (eighth day),

Tension in the eyes,

Boring pain in the eye,

Twitching on the lower margin of the right eye (third day),

Pressure in the eyes,

Pressure in the eyes, especially the right eye, in the evening (fourteenth day),

Pressure in the eye at twilight,

Pressure in the right eye, ; (second day), ; towards 11 P.M. (eighth day),

Pressure in the eye on looking intently at anything,

Sticking in the right eye (seventh and fourteenth days),

Sticking in the canthi (after four hours),

A transient stitch in the left inner canthus, alternating with a similar one on the crest of the right ilium (third day),

Fine stitches, as from sand, in the left external canthus (after 3d trit.),

Tearing in the canthi, with darkness before the eyes,

Sensitiveness of the eyes,

Smarting pain in the eyes,

Sensation as if sand were in the eye, in the morning,

Jerking in the eyes frequently during the day, followed by violent itching, obliging rubbing,

Jerking in the left external canthus, especially in the evening (fourth day),

Itching in the eye,

Itching in the eyes, that obliges rubbing (fifteenth day),

Itching in the right external canthus (sixth day),

Itching in the left external canthus (after half an hour),

Itching in the inner canthi, and lachrymation,

Itching in the left inner canthus, obliging rubbing (after 8th dil.),

Violent itching of the left inner canthus,

Sticking itching in the left inner canthus (seventh day),

Vision

She became farsighted,

Short vision (fourth and ninth days),

Eyes dim and weak (thirty-first day),

Dimness of the eyes,

Dimness and darkness before the eyes,

Dimness of vision, in the morning,

Vision dim, as if he should wipe the eyes (after six hours),

Vision dim, as if the eyes were covered with mucus,

Dimness of vision, as if he were looking through a dim glass, while walking in the open air,

The eyes do not become clear as soon as usual, in the morning,

Vision not so clear as usual; the eyes seem misty all day (fourteenth day),

Misty before the eyes,

Feeling of a mist before the eyes while standing; not lasting long, but recurring three times in succession (third day),

She cannot see distinctly at a distance; it seems as though she was looking through rain,

Feeling as though a cloud were before the eyes, recurring three times in quick succession (eighth day),

When looking at white objects, everything seems indistinct, as through feathers,

A thick cloud seemed to be before the eyes from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. (fifteenth day),

Sensation as though a veil were drawn before the eyes in the afternoon; she could scarcely see to knit (thirty-fifth day),

Objects seem covered with a thin veil,

On looking long at anything, especially on sewing, sudden darkness before the eyes; she could see nothing till she directed the eyes to another object, at 6 P.M., with sleepiness (nineteenth day),

Only half of an object is visible, the other half is dark,

Unsteadiness of vision; objects become confused on looking at them,

Letters and stitches run together, so that she cannot distinguish anything for five minutes,

Many points of light and shade before the eyes,

Fiery points before the eyes, when walking in the open air,

Small fiery points before the eyes wherever she looks,

She sees fiery zigzags about everything,

On closing the eyes for the midday nap, she saw many people, large cities, and large bodies of water pass before her (thirty-first day),

Brow and orbit

Pressure above the eye and in the temple, with dulness of the head (second day),

Pressure as from a swelling above the right eye, aggravated by raising the eyebrows, for a day and a half,

Pressive pain above the left eye,

Slight pressive pain above the eyebrows (after 24th dil.),

Sticking pain just above both eyebrows (seventeenth day),

Itching-sticking pain below the left eye (after ten hours),

Transient stitch in the right eyebrow, extending horizontally through the brain (after 3d trit.),

Very tender in bone all round left eye and left nasal bone, and tearing and shooting in bone over left eye; this lasted all day; pain in orbit relieved by lying on left side, and by cold water, before menses (after two hours),

The left outer margin of the orbit was painful to touch, as if bruised (fourth day),

Stitchlike itching on the orbital margin of the left eye (towards the external canthus), in the evening (third day),

Lids.

Redness of the margins of the lids; in the morning the eyes were agglutinated with scabs; this lasted a week (after the crude),

A catarrhal affection of the margins of the lids developed; they became red, with burning, especially in the evening while reading; secreted mucus and were agglutinated in the morning on waking, and covered with thick scabs (after 5th dil.),

Constant ulceration and great redness of the lower lid,

A pimple on the margin of the lower lid, not in the meibomian glands,

A large stye in the right inner canthus,

The eyes are agglutinated in the morning,

Agglutination of the eyes on waking in the morning, and sticking and pressure in the left eye, but without redness (sixth day),

Trembling of the upper and lower lids, for several weeks,

Trembling and twitching of the left upper lid, after dinner (twenty-eighth day),

Jerking and twitching of the right upper lid, in the morning (second day),

Violent twitching of the eyes,

Spasmodic closure of the lids, in the morning on rising, in the twilight, and at night; even when she closed the eyes she felt the contraction,

Difficulty of opening the lids, though completely awake, at night,

Irritability of the margins of the lids, and their conjunctiva (sixth day),

Heaviness of the upper lids (twenty-first day),

Heaviness of the lids, so that she could scarcely open the eyes (sixteenth day),

Sensation as though the right upper lid would fall down (third day),

Sensation in the right lower lid, as if the skin were somewhat rough (second day),

The margins of the lids and the canthi (especially the external) burn violently all day, and secrete much acrid fluid; with pressive pain in the eyes, as if inflamed; on reading, he sees as through a fog (after the crude),

Spasmodic drawing in the right eyelid, with pressive pain when she wished to go to sleep, followed by trembling of the upper lid,

Pressive pain in the lids,

Soreness of the right lower lid,

Biting in the upper lids; they seemed worst to touch, in the afternoon (eighteenth day),

Lachrymal Apparatus.

Lachrymation in the open air,

Burning lachrymation, with secretion of mucus in the eyes, again increased (after 1 1/2 drachm),

Acrid lachrymation that makes the canthi red and sore,

Biting lachrymation in the morning,

Conjunctiva.

The conjunctiva and margins of the lids become red and burning (after 2d trit.),

Ball.

Jerking tearing in the left eyeball, in the evening (eleventh day),