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| Eye inflammation |
Description of disease:
Eyelids red, swollen and painful, frequently attended with an increase or alternation of the natural secretion, causing an agglutination of the eyelids in the morning.
Medicinal treatment
Aconitum napellus
When the eyelids are swollen, hard, and red, with heat, burning, and dryness.
Dose. -Two drops in a dessertspoonful of water every three or six hours – a teaspoonful for a child.
Belladonna
Is often a useful medicine after Aconitum, if the external surface or margins are much inflamed or the margins are turned up.
Dose. -As Aconitum.
Mercurius solubilis
If there is much shooting or burning pain with itching, or else no pain, or if there are ulcers on the margins.
Dose. -Two grains repeated as Aconitum.
Pulsatilla pratensis
If there is much secretion of mucus with appearance of styes, and much inflammatory redness of the lids.
Dose. -As Aconitum.
Accessory treatment
Foment the eyelids with tepid water or milk and water; -See Stye on the Eyelid.