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Euphrasia Officinalis
Euphrasia officinalis · EUPHR
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Origin Plant · Scrophulariaceae · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of whole plant.
Sources 19 entries across 17 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose Boericke
3X–6X
Third to sixth potency

Reason for useRoberts

Euphrasia is one of the valuable remedies in rheumatic iritis with the constant aching and occasional darting pains in the eyes, always markedly worse in the evening and night. Associated with all its troubles is the characteristic profuse fluent discharge which excoriates the eyelids and cheeks, but from the nose is always bland. EYE S. — (Euphrasia) RHEUMATIC IRITIS WITH CONSTANT ACHING AND OCCASIONAL DARTING PAIN IN EYE, ALWAYS < AT NIGHT ; CILIARY INJECTION, PHOTOPHOBIA, AQUEOUS HUMOR CLOUDY AND IRIS DISCOLOURED AND BOUND DOWN BY ADHESIONS. RHEUMATIC INFLAMMATION OF EYES ALMOST BLINDING HIM. NECK AND BACK . — (Euphrasia) Cramp-like pain in back. (Constant pressive pain in back while sitting and walking.) (Violent sticking pain along the whole spine.) (Rheumatic drawing from uppermost dorsal vertebra to left clavicle, painful to touch.) (Distressing heaviness in small of back on rising in morning.) SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Euphrasia) Rheumatic drawing and sticking in right elbow, wrist and hand. Cramps in wrists and hands. Numbness of fingers. INFERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Euphrasia) CRAMPS IN CALVES, < WHEN STANDING. Painful tension in hamstrings as if too short. Stitches in hip and knee joints when walking. CONCOMITANTS . — (Euphrasia) BURNING AND SWELLING OF THE MARGIN OF LIDS. PROFUSE FLUENT CORYZA IN MORNING, WITH COUGH AND EXPECTORATION. PROFUSE FLUENT BLAND CORYZA. GREAT PHOTOPHOBIA. AGGRAVATIONS . — (Euphrasia) EVENING. NIGHT. LIGHT. WALKING IN OPEN AIR.


Books*
Antidoted by Camphora 4, Pulsatilla Pratensis 3, Causticum 2 +1
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Arsenicum Album, Mercurius Solubilis, Apis Mellifica +18

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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