Eye…Miasmatic Differentiation

Homoeopathy is a best system of therapeutic primarily for dynamic disease and secondarily for non-dynamic diseases. When disease takes its organic hold leaving the dynamic, it gives least scope for homoeopathy. Symptomatic medicine unless it is antimiasmatic medicine (Antipsoric, Antisycotic and Antisyphilitic) shall take out the symptoms but not the real cause. The cause is miasm. The medicine, that are not antimiasmatic cannot go deep into the system, to the bottom of the disease. Phenomena of miasm is a part and parcel of symptomatology. Anamnesis includes present, past and family history. The miasmatic phenomena starts with the very beginning of life. A true Similimum that one which covers disease phenomena as well as phenomena of miasm. So in selecting the similimum, the miasm plays a very critical and vital role.

Psoric eye:

The clinical complaints include – Conjunctivitis, Iritis and other inflammations of a functional nature, Night blindness, Day blindness, Amaurosis, Squinting.
Psoric eyes have a great intolerance of daylight and sunlight.
In psoric eyes, there is dryness, burning and itching with constant desire to rub the lids. There may be a sensation of coldness or of sand like particles in the eyes.
In psora, the vision may be blurred and there may be spots before eyes, there may be visualization of various colours and zigzag appearance around the object. Before the eyes there are floating as it were flies, or black points, or dark streaks, or networks, especially when looking into bright daylight.
False vision; he sees objects double, or manifold, or only the one-half of them.
In psora, the disturbances are aggravated during the day time especially in the morning and by sunlight and are ameliorated by application of external warmth.
Pressive pain on the eyes, especially late in the evening; he must shut them.
The eye lids, especially in the morning, are as if closed; he cannot open them; the eyelids are heavy as if paralyzed or convulsively closed.
Sensation of cold in the eyes.
The canthi are full of pus-like mucus.
The edge of the eyelids full of dry mucus.
On the edge of the eyelids, inflammation of single meibomian glands or several of them.
Yellowness around the eyes and of the white of the eye.
Dropsy of the eye.
Obscuration of the crystalline lens.
Far-sightedness and short-sightedness.
False vision; he sees objects double, or manifold, or only the one-half of them.
Dim, opaque spots on the cornea.
The eyes seem to look through a veil or a mist; the sight becomes dim at certain times.

Sycotic eye:
The clinicals include – Cataract, Styes, Ophthalmia neonatorum, Glaucoma, Retinoblastoma and other Papillomas, Tumors, Tarsal tumors.
In sycotic eyes, there are corneal incordinations and inflammations.
Photophobia may occur due to condylomata and the eyelids are often matted together in the morning.
There is dull and aching pain in eyes.
Arthritic troubles of eyes (Psorico-sycotic).
Gout of the eyes.
The sycotic neuralgias are aggravated by changes in weather, rain or stormy weather.

Syphilitic eye:
The miasm that makes serious lesions upon the structure of the eye.
The clinicals include – All types of structural eye changes e.g. Ulcers, Cataract, Blepharitis, Retinopathies.
Ptosis and cataract are syco-syphilitic.
Ciliary neuralgia, ciliary blepharitis is either syphilitic or tubercular.
Syphilitic eyes have scaly red lids.
Paralytic weakness, deformities and changes in the lens and all refractory changes are syphilitic.
Photophobia also occurs and there may be intolerance of artificial light.
Fever of ophthalmic origin is syphilitic.
There is sensation of burning and a raw feeling in the eyes.
Thick copious pus formation or discharges, especially if greenish or yellowish-green are distinctly syphilitic or tubercular.
Syphilitic neuralgia of the eyes is aggravated by warmth and during night and ameliorated by cold..