Euphrasia

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Dr. S.R. Phatak describes the clinically confirmed symptoms of the homeopathic remedy Euphrasia in his Concise Materia Medica, published in 1977….

Generalities

      The common name ‘Eye bright’ gives the indication for the use of this remedy. It affects the MUCOUS MEMBRANES; of EYES, nose, and chest, producing acute catarrh, with free, acrid, watery secretions. Tears are acrid; nasal discharge is bland. Acrid pus.

Worse

      SUNLIGHT. WIND. Warmth. Room. Evening.

Better

      Open air. Winking, wiping eyes.

Head

      Catarrhal headache with profuse discharge from the nose and eyes. Bursting headache with dazzling of the eyes.

Eyes

      WATERY EYES; as if swimming in tears. As of a hair before them; wants to wipe them. PROFUSE HOT OR ACRID TEARS worse open air, lying or coughing; leaving a varnish like mark. Sticky eye gum. Photophobia, with spasms of the lids. Pressive, cutting pains in the eyes. Thick acrid yellow discharge from the eyes. Conjunctivitis, with violent injection; of measles; instead of menses. Chronic sore eyes. Opacities of cornea; after injury. Red, burning, itching tarsi. Cataract, with watery eyes. Pain in the eye, alternating with pain in abdomen.

Nose

      Profuse bland fluent coryza; with cough and much expectoration, less when lying down. Flat cancer on the right side of the nose.

Face

      Stiffness of left cheek; of tongue. Upper lip stiff as if made of wood.

Stomach

      Vomiting from hawking mucus.

Male

      Prostatitis. Nocturnal irritability of bladder, dribbling or urine.

Female

      Menses; painful, flow lasts only one hour or a day. Amenorrhoea, with ophthalmia and ulcer on right side of the nose. Stitching pains and itching when walking in open air.

Respiratory

      Cough with easy expectoration, in day time only; less on lying down; at night.

Sleep

      Yawning when walking in open air.

Related

      All-c.

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S.R. Phatak
A pioneer of Homoeopathy in Maharashtra, Dr Shankar Raghunath Phatak was born on 6th September, 1896. He did his MBBS from Grant Medical College, in 1924. Started his practice but somehow not satisfied with Allopathic Treatment.

He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.

He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.