Blindness

Loss of sight depends on many causes. It may be sudden and temporary, or it may be permanent. Of course a medical man will be consulted to decide this. If it is accompanied by great pain and hardness of the eyeball (Glaucoma) immediate treatment, by operation, possibly, is demanded. Blindness may occur apart from any real change in the eyes, and in such cases, as well as in some where there is actual change, medicines may be very efficacious. They should be given frequently (every hour) until benefit is perceived, then less often.

Aconite 6.-

Sudden temporary attacks. (Mercurius 6, if the attacks return frequently.)

Belladonna 3.-

Night blindness; the patient can see nothing after twilight. Something red or green appears before the eyes, or a coloured circle round the candle.

Lycopodium 6.-

Night-blindness, when there are black spots floating before the eyes.

Sulphur 6.-

Day-blindness; when the patient can only see well in the evening.

Nux vomica 6.-

Blindness due to excessive smoking.

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica