Sight – Eyes – Chapter 5 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

Main

Bright’s, in,
disease :-

Phos.

Bulimia, in :-

Lyc.

Candlelight, by :-

Euphr., Hep.

Necessitating
constant wiping of eyes and accompanied by profuse discharge,
which agglutinated lids at night and had to be wiped off in
morning :-

Puls.

Catarrh, in :-

Cast.,
Sec.

Chronic :-

Alumn.

After
suppressed :-

Ars.

Cephalalgia, preceding
paroxysms of :-

Phos.

Chilliness,
with :-

Cham.

Cholera, in :-

Cupr-a.

Chorio-retinitis, in,
of right eye :-

Kali-m.

Cloudy :-

Cycl., Lac-d.,
Plb.

Albuminuria,
in :-

Ars.

As if a, were before
eyes, could not see in evening, better walking, worse
sitting :-

Lachn.

Candlelight,
by :- All-c.

Canthi, with itching
and sticking in inner :-

Zinc.

Dark, pass :-

Lac-ac.

Left, before, during
day :- Bar-c.

Left eye, before, in
twilight, and cloudy weather :-
Arg-n.

Like a cloud, then
violent headache, then repeated vomiting, after which it grows
better :- Glon.

Menses, before :-
Bell.

Morning, in :-

Nicc.

Myelitis, in :-

Stram.

Over outer half of
field of vision of left eye, due to subretinal effusion :-

Gels.

Confused, dim
and :-

Before
headache :-

Kali-bi.

With vertigo :-

Kali-bi.

Cornea :-

From obscuration of,
in morning :-

Ang.

As if, had lost its
transparency :-

SULPH.

Coryza, in :-

Anac.

Cough, with :-

Coff.

Cutaneous, after
suppression of acute, diseases

(chorea) :-
Calc.

Dark,
all being, could not sew for a week :-

# Eup-per.

Darkness before
eyes :-

Eug.,
Psor., Puls.

Awaking, on :-

Dulc.

Complained of, wanted a
light :-

Stram.

Evening, in, with
aching pains and slight epistaxis :-

Ferr.

Faintness, with,
following pressing in cardiac region and hard heart-beats

(mental
derangement) :-
Manc.

Giddy :-

Ferr.

Head heaviness,
with :-

Phos.

Looking sideways,
when :-

Olnd.

Menses, during :-

Cycl., Graph.

Morning, in, on rising
from bed :-

Com.,
Puls.

Paralysis of bladder,
on attempting to rise, in

(malaria
ataxy) :-
Cic.

Spinning, could not
read or see thread when :-

Stram.

Thoughts, on attempting
to fix :-

Arg-n.

Vertigo, with :-

Dulc., Op.,
Ox-ac.

Vertigo, with, in
hemiplegia :-

Elaps.

Vertigo, with, before
menses

(acute
pulmonary catarrh) :-
Puls.

Vertigo, with, on
stooping :-

Calc.

Warm room, worse on
going into a, before menses :-

Puls.

Diabetes, in :-

Tarent.

Diarrhœa, in :-

ANT-T.

Diphtheritis, in
sequela to :-

¤ Phys.

Dizziness, with, while
walking or sitting :-

Lyss.

Dissolved, things seem
as if :-

Stram.

Distance, cannot see at
a :-

Cact.

Distant, dimness of,
objects, followed by contraction of pupil :-

Phys.

Distinguish, inability
to, objects at a short distance

(delirium
tremens) :- STRAM.

Distant, things seem as
if too :-

Stram.,
SULPH.

Dots, as if black,
filled visual field, worse after stimulants

(amblyopia) :-
Tab.

Dropsy, in :-

Ars.

Drowsiness, with
frequent :-

Mag-s.

Dull :-

Bism.,
GELS.

In diabetes :-

Sul-ac.

From weakness of optic
nerve :-

Mag-p.

With dilatation of
pupils :-

Lyss.

When writing, sees only
1/2 of objects clearly :-

Sep.

Eating, after :-

Calc.,
Kali-c.

Better after dinner
and from wine, worse after coffee :-

Arg-n.

Erect, when assuming,
position, with partial syncope :-

Verat-v.

Exertion, after,
especially in evening :-

Nicc.

Evening, in, worse in
room :-

Nat-c.

Eyes :-

Much black flickering
before, seems near :-

LACH.

With inflammation
of :-

Mag-c.

From circles of red
light before :-

Cact.

Itching, with, sticking
in ball, better in open air :-

Puls.

Face :-

With heat of :-

Mosch.

In neuralgia of :-

Sul-ac.

Fade, objects,
away :-

Carbn-s.

Fainting, in,
spells :-

Lac-d.

Far off, objects,
appear dim, undefined :-

# Camph.

Feathery, with,
appearance :-

Calc.,
Lyc.

Fever, from :-

Bell.

Typhoid, in :-

Phos.

Figures are void of
expression to him, seem enveloped in mist

(effects
of overstudy) :-
Nat-c.

Film, as if caused by
a :-

Aml-ns.,
Phys.

Frequent sense of,
with vertigo, with vision of a small dark object like a mouse or a
bird coming up to her :-

Lac-c.

Fire, worse near, also
in morning and evening :-

Nat-s.

Floating, as if
something were, before eyes, obliges him to wipe them
constantly :-

Kreos.

Fluids, after loss of
vital :-

Verat-v.

Foggy :-

Alumn., Camph.,
Caust., Cund.,
Kali-i., Lach.,
MERC.,
Morph., Puls.,
Stram., SULPH.

Afternoon, in :-

Cycl.

After 7.30 P.M., from
February to July, each year

(retinitis
hemarolopica) :-
Lyc.

Closing and pressing
eyeballs, when :-

Bar-c.

Typhus, in :-

Chin-s.

Typhoid, after :-

Lyc.

Headache, in :-

Cycl.

Hemiopia, in :-

Aur.

Iritis, in :-

Euphr.

Melancholy, in, after
mortification :-

Ign.

Prosopalgia, in :-

Verb.

Reading or walking,
while :-

Vinc.

Reading or looking at a
bright light, while :-

Kali-c.

Right, before :-

Sep.

Right, before, in
conjunctivitis and leucoma :-

Kali-c.

Stupefaction,
with :-

Bism.

Vertigo, in :-

Canth.

Gaslight looks
dim :-

Sulph.

Gauze,
as if looking through :-

Calc.,
Caust., Dros., Dulc., Hydr-ac.,
Kreos.,
Nat-m., Sep., Sulph.

Apoplexy, in :-

Plb.

When looking steadily
or reading, better by wiping eyes :-

Cina.

Left eye, of :-

Sars.

Morning and after a
meal, in :-

Bar-c.

Vertigo, with :-

Nat-m.

White :-

ARS.

Giddiness, with :-

Sulph.

Gray, as if looking
through a, cover :-

Sil.

Hairs, with sensation
as if, were in eyes :-

Sang.

Hazy :-

Phos.

Bluish, in hyperæmia
of optic nerve and retina :-

Bry.

Everything at a
distance is :-

Jab.

Of left
slightly :-

Verat-v.

Vision good for fixed
objects, but when put in motion before eyes there is a haze and dull
vision, producing vertigo :-

Con.

Headache :-

In, dim :-

Chim-m., CYCL.,
SULPH., Verat-v.

Before :-

Lac-d., Psor.

Dim in, during
pregnancy :-

Caust.

Head :-

Blow on, after
a :-

Ammc.

Getting cold,
after :-

Calc.

Lightness of, with,
worse by sudden movement of head and walking :-

Gels.

Pressure in :-

Caust.

Tearing in, and right
eye, and sensation as if air were rushing through eye, with :-

Croc.

Heat, from :-

Carb-v.,
Gels.

Hemicrania, in :-

Chen-a.

Hemiplegia, in :-

Elaps.

Hysterical :-

Euphr.

Indistinct :-

ANAC.,
Caust.,
Kali-i., Sil.,
Verb.

Catarrhal ophthalmia,
in :-

Phos.

Dilated pupils,
from :-

Amyg.

Distant objects seem,
riding or walking :-

Gels.

Faintness,
with :-

Calc.

Fever, in
yellow :-

Gels.

Headache and nausea,
with :-

Coca.

Ophthalmia,
in :-

Apis.

Prosopalgia,
in :-

Chel.

Raving, in :-

Amyg.

Reading,
after :-

Apis.

Straining body, mind
or eyes, from :-

Calc.

Using eyes,
after :-

Camph.

Weakness,
from :-

Calc.

Lachrymation, with, in
open air :-

Puls.

Lachrymation, with
profuse :-

Cupr-ar.

Lattice, as if one were
looking through a fine :-

Lyc.

Left :-

With pain in, then in
right eye :-

Sars.

Of, a year after right
affected, rapidly worse than left :-

Merc-i-f.

Lessening :-

Anac.

Lids, with heavy, and
invincible drowsiness :-

Kali-br.

Light :-

Can scarcely
distinguish, from dark :-

Elaps.

Can only see, not
objects :-

Lac-d.

Green halo
around :-

Caust.

Shunned the :-

Rhus-t.

Linen, saw things as if
through coarse, only by pieces and as if cut through, of a face he
saw only nose, etc. :-

Stram.

Lustre, without :-

Bov.

Measles, sequel
to :-

Caust.

Membrane, as though,
were over eyes :-

Caust.,
Daph.

Misty :-

Agar., Ambr.,
Ammc., Arg-m.,
Arg-n., Asaf.,
Bell., Bism.,
Cahin., Caust.,
Cycl.,
Form., Gels.,
Glon., Graph., Lact.,
Petr.,
Ran-b., Sil.,
Spig., Thuj.

Amaurosis, or
cataract, in :-

Calc-p.

Amblyopia,
obscuration at a distance, in :-

Ruta.

Cataract, in :-

Chel., Sec.

Distance, at
a :-

Mill.,
Phos.

Eye, after injury
to :-

Arn.

Emissions, or smoky,
cannot read, worse after seminal :-

Sars.

Evening, in :-

Ind.

Light, especially
after a bright

(chorio-retinitis) :-
Phos.

Light, worse in a
bright, outdoors, better in room :-

Am-m.

Looking keenly at
anything, or reading, when

(pregnancy) :-
Calc.

Looking long, after

(post-partum
hæmorrhage) :-
Cann-s.

Morning, in
asthenopia in :-

Merl.

Morning, after
waking, in :-

Zinc.

Mercury, after abuse
of :-

Kali-i.

Objects seemed
enveloped in, and to move, then burning :-

Euphr.

Objects look dim, as
if enveloped in a halo or, in ophthalmia tarsi :-

Merc-c.

Ophthalmia, after
scrofulous :-

Kali-i.

Reading or writing,
when :-

Grat.

Sight, with attacks
of vanishing of :-

Phos.

Whitish-gray, in
staphyloma :-

Apis.

Writing, especially
in afternoon, when :-

Ol-an.

Mist thick :-

Aran.

Momentarily :-

Caust.

Morning, in :-

Chel.

After waking :-

Zinc.

Nausea, with :-

Mygal.

Near, for,
objects :-

All-c.

And distant :-

SULPH.

Nervous :-

Caust.,
Mill.

Night, in :-

Stram.

Night after, watching
and mental disturbance :-

Puls.

Nose, on
blowing :-

Caust.

Obscured :-

Am-c.,
Arn., Asar., Cact.,
Clem.,
Coch., Coloc., Cycl.,
Euphr.,
Hep., Ip.,
Laur., Mur-ac., Olnd.,
Op.,
Rhus-t., Sil.,
Ter.

Chilliness followed
by sleepiness, with :-

Sabin.

Convalescence from
diphtheria, during :-

Nux-v.

Distant objects while
walking in open air, for :-

Euphr.

Dizzy, after sitting,
on rising and beginning to walk about :-

Puls.

Effort to see, with
heaviness in back part of head, worse by :-

Mur-ac.

Erysipelas,
in :-

Apis.

Evening, In :-

AMMC.

Eyes, with
inflammation of :-

Mag-c.

Emissions, worse
after seminal :-

Sars.

Fixing it upon white
object, when :-

Cham.

Frequent :-

Sang.

Frequent, especially
when stooping, walking, reading, writing :-

Nat-m.

Glistening before
eyes, worse from rubbing, with :-

Seneg.

Headache,
with :-

Cycl.

Head, with congestion
to :-

Cycl.

Head, with dulness
and stupefaction in :-

Seneg.

Hepatic derangement,
dependent upon :-

Sep.

Indistinct, objects
seem :-

Hyos.

Left, in :-

Bor.

Looked too long and
intently at an object, as if one had, with pain like a pressure in
right eye :-

Ruta.

Megrim, in :-

Sil.

Meningitis, in
cerebro-spinal :-

Apis.

Menses,
during :-

Puls.,
Sep.

Minutes, a
few :-

Coch.

Momentarily, by
feeling of pressure on eyeball :-

CHAM.

Moving head quickly,
when :-

Lachn.

Nausea, with :-

Merc.

Nearly, by turgid and
infiltrated eyelids, worse in right side

(erysipelas) :-
Jug-c.

Palpitation, violent
paroxysms, with :-

Puls.

Photophobia, with, in
morning :-

Nux-v.

Pupils, with
dilated :-

Thuj.

Reading,
while :-

Nit-ac.

Sudden, in sick
headache :-

Sep.

Sudden and momentary,
better by winking, caused by pressure of opaque mucus upon surface
of cornea :-

Euphr.

Syncope, in :-

Nux-v.

Transient :-

PULS.

Vapor, as from a
white :-

Bell.

Vertigo, with :-

¤ Coff.,
Nit-ac., NUX-V.,
Sabin., Stram.,
Ter.

Weakness and
drowsiness, with

(vertigo) :-
Kali-n.

Outer, in, portions of
visual field :-

Puls.

Outlines :-

Can only distinguish,
of distant objects :-

CHIN.

Can only see rude, of
objects, after typhoid :-

Lyc.

Indistinct :-

Bell.,
Kali-bi.

Ill defined, in
retinitis :-

Sulph.

Pneumonia, in :-

Ant-t.

Pregnancy,
during :-

Gels.

Pupils, with
dilated :-

Atrop.,
Lyss.,
Verat-v.

Reading,
while :-

SULPH.

And writing :-

Rhod.

By candlelight in
evening :-

Hep.

Focal distance changes
while, 1st longer then shorter :-

Agar.

Read, cannot :-

Bar-c.

Nor write :-

Gels., Sil.

Recognize, fails to,
those near him or does so but slowly :-

Verat.

Right, of, eye :-

Ars-h.,
Plb., Vesp.

Rising, on, from
stooping :-

Lyss.

Scale, like a, before
eye, with shooting along left orbital arch to external angle of eye

(ozæna) :-
Kali-bi.

Scotoma, with, of right
eye, after a fall

(amblyopia) :-
Merc.

Shadow, as if a, were
flitting before eyes :-

Ruta.

Sieve, as if looking
through a :-

Puls.

Sinciput, with dulness
of :-

Vinc.

Skin, as if a, were
drawn over eye :-

Apis.

Sleepy, when getting

(coryza) :-
All-c.

Sallow :-

When looking at,
things :-

# Eup-per.

Unable to discern,
things, as point of a pin :-

Stram.

Could not see, objects
and larger ones appeared as if enveloped in smoke or mist

(scrofulous
ophthalmia) :-
Sulph.

Smoky :-

CHIN.,
GELS., Lac-ac.,
Phos.

Sparks, with
fiery :-

Cycl.

Spectra,
vibrating :-

Agar.

Spells, by :-

Tab.

Spells, by, constantly
changing, becoming more or less dim every few moments :-

Jab.

Sweat, after suppressed
foot :-

Sil.

Syphilis, in :-

Lyc.

Tears, as from, while
reading :-

Ign.

Thick, it seems, before
eyes :-

Viol-o.

Thinking, from :-

Arg-n.

Thirst, with :-

Stram.

Tobacco, in,
poisoning :-

Nux-v.,
Phos.

Uterine, in,
derangement :-

Caul.

Uterine, in,
hæmorrhage at climacteric period :-

Tril.

Veil,
as if looking through a :-

Acon.,
Ant-t.,
Arum-t., Arund., Berb., Bufo, Caust.,
Croc., Crot-t.,
Hyos., Iod.,
Laur., Lith-c., Nat-m., Nat-p.,
Petr.,
Phos., Rhus-t., Stram., SULPH.,
Thuj.

Amaurosis or
cataract, in :-

Calc-p.

Asthenopia,
in :-

Sep.

Bed, after getting
out of :-

Stram.

Dark, passes from
right to left every morning at 10 A.M., a :-

Nat-m.

Evening, in :-

Euphr., Tab.

Flickering, after
siesta and :-

Lyc.

Gray, objects appear
covered with a :-

Elaps., Phos.

Hysteria, in :-

Lyc., Ther.

Rheumatic ophthalmia,
in :-

Cocc.

Right, as if a black,
were before :-

Phos.

Rubbing or wiping,
better from :-

PULS.

Scarlet fever,
after :-

Hep.

Vertigo :-

In :-

Æsc-g.,
Agar., Amyg., Anac.,
Bell., Camph.,
Caul., Cham.,
Coff-t.,
Cupr-s., CYCL.,
GELS., Glon.,
Ictod.,
Raph.

Dimness improves as,
gets worse :-

Camph.

With, in
typhoid :-

Cic.

With, after loud
reading or when sitting :-

Par.

With, when sitting up
in bed :-

Cham.

Vomiting, with :-

KREOS.

Vomit, with inclination
to, face pale :-

Puls.

Warm, especially on
getting, from exercise :-

Puls.

Water, like seeing
through a glass of turbid :-

Agar.,
Stram.

Could scarcely
recognize an object a yard away :-

Verb.

Work, after
fine :-

Calc.

Writing, while :-

Aloe.

Double

(diplopia) :-
Æth.,
Am-c., Arg-n.,
Art.,
Atrop., Aur.,
Bar-c., Bell.,
Cic.,
Clem., Con.,
Crot-h., Daph.,
Dig., Eug.,
Euphor., GELS.,
Hyos., Iod., Kali-cy.,
Mag-p., Med.,
Merc-c., NAT-M.,
NIT-AC., Nux-v.,
Olnd., Par., Plb.,
Puls., Sec.,
Stram., Ter.,
Thuj.,
Ust., Zinc.

Amaurosis, in :-

Sulph.

Apoplexy, in :-

Plb.

Asthenopia, in
muscular :-

Nux-v.

Candlelight, by :-

Alumn.

Candlelight appears
double :-

Nicc.

Rating :-

Better after
breakfast :-

Camph.

Finer, 1/2 hour
after :-

Stram.

Rye, after
injuring :-

Arn.

Fever, in
yellow :-

Gels.

Figures on carpet

(giddiness) :-
# Atrop-s.

Headache, with
giddiness and :-

Phyt.

Headache, with :-

Gels.

Inclining, when, head
towards shoulders or looking sideways :-

Gels.

Lachrymation,
with :-

Morph.

Left eye more
affected :-

Zinc.

Left, only noticed when
looking to

(paralysis
of left nervus abducens) :-
Kali-i.

Left, on holding eyes
to

(syphilis) :-
Merc-i-f.

Left, inability to
turn, eye upward :-

Caust.

Lens, in opacity
of :-

Chel.

Looking, when,
down :-

Olnd.

Looking downward

(traumatic
muscular paralysis) :-
Arn.

Lower, one image seen,
than another :-

Syph.

Lying down,
better :-

Spong.

Meningitis,
after :-

Apis.

Motes, with black, or
specks before eyes, worse rising from bed or chair :-

Verat.

Multiplied, as if
objects would be, slight :-

Phys.

Muscles, with spasm of
various, throughout body :-

Gels.

Nausea, causing
fluttering :-

Ther.

Occiput, followed by
burning in, better by pressure on vertex

(brain
affection) :- Gels.

Ophthalmia, in :-

Cic.

Perpendicular :-

# Atrop-s.

Persons, more in young
and strong

(neuralgia
and rheumatic headache) :-
MAG-P.

Point, sees, of pin
double :-

Kali-bi.

Pregnancy,
during :-

Gels.

Retina, in hyperæmia
of :-

Puls.

Riding, after, in
railroad cars

(paralysis
of left nervous abducens) :-
Cupr-a.

Right, with, image
obliquely above real one :-

Seneg.

Right, images to, and
downward

(paresis
of right nervus abducens) :-
Sulph.

Second, before left
sees a, dim representation of object on each side of it :-

Bell.

Spot, produced by
aching pinching on small circumscribed, below lower eyelid

(infraorbital
neuralgia) :- Coloc.

Squint, especially if
dependent on convergent, from helminthiasis, convulsions, falls,
etc. :-

Cycl.

Strabismus,
decided :-

Zinc.

Strabismus, in
paralytic :-

Nux-v.

Sun, when walking
toward setting, another small sun seemed to float beneath it,
changed into a compressed oval on turning eyes outward, disappeared
on bending head and closing eyes :-

Seneg.

Sunstroke, in :-

Verat-v.

Tobacco, in,
poisoning :-

Nux-v.

Using, after,
eyes :-

Camph.

Will, controllable by
force of :-

Gels.

Work, from over, at
desk :-

Agar.

Writing, when, letters
appear double :-

Graph.

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