Of Cataract & Heavy Lids
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1998 Mar / Apr VOL VII NO 2.
Dr S M Gunvante
'Senega / Gels

Case 1
A 65-year-old lady came home after her cataract operation She being a family friend,. I visited her with my wife the next day. She called in my wife and told her that she had a kind of pressing and burning, piercing pain in the operated eye. She inquired if Homoeopathy could help her. She did not want anyone in the family to know about her complaint lest they worried.

On returning home my wife narrated what the old lady had said.
I concluded that "fragments" of the lens were causing the pain. [W Boericke P584] and gave her a few doses of Senega 200 to be taken three hourly. Next day on inquiry I was glad to hear that the pain had disappeared completely after the second dose. 

Rubrics:
1] Eyes, pressing pain [382- 3 marks]
2] Pain burning [378-2]
3] Lachrymation [370-2]
There was constant lachrymation. 

Case 2
A 45 year old lady came in the morning with the complaint that she was not able to lift her upper eyelids after getting up from sleep with the result that opening her eyes was very difficult. She was a very timid person. 3 doses of Gelsemium 1M 12 hours apart for 2 days, ameliorated her. 

Rubrics:
Eyes opening difficult [372-3]
Paralysis upper lids [387-3]
Timidity [197-3]