# Euphrasia (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** Eyebright
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Euphrasia is a specific kind of plant called Eyebright.  The
Homoeopathic medicine is prepared out  of it.  As the name implies, it
is used in the treatment of cold affecting the eyes, which become
extraordinarily red.

The effect of Euphrasia is rather short-lived and certainly neither does
it work for a long time nor does it have any deep effects.  Hence,
Euphrasia is useful in the kind of cold which, though severe, is but of
a fleeting nature, especially with th e effect being mostly on the eyes.
Any kind of cold, which attacks the eyes at the outset with
excessive watering, burning and redness, will respond to Euphrasia.
During the daytime, while the eyes are watering and red, the patient
does not have any cough.  There is  no burning or irritation in the
throat either.  As soon as the pa tient retires to bed, the excessive
secretions of the eye divert toward s the throat and injure the windpipe
leading to coughing.  At the outset, the cough is only at night, but
after some time, due to persistent  burning and irritation, sores develop
in the throat and the cough lingers.  It can remain during the day also.
Along with the cold, there is an attack of severe headache.  The eyes
feel heavy as if somebody has put a heavy bandage over them.  Ulcers
form over the cornea.  The secretion of the eye being acidic in nature
shows its ill effects for a long time  and can cause blurring of the
vision.

A peculiar symptom of Euphrasia is  the pain experienced over the
nerves supplying the eyes .  Although Euphrasia is  an acute i.e. short
acting remedy, however, the resulting eye condition may become
chronic.  It mostly afflicts the third cranial nerve (oculomotor).

Euphrasia has a distinct benefici al effect in the treatment of German
measles.  Measles are treated with Puls atilla, but in German measles
Euphrasia is a must.  In this condit ion, the disease process starts at the
eyes, which become extremely red.  As such, German measles is not a
dangerous disease but in pregnant women, it can produce severe bad
effects on the foetus.  If German measles attack women in the first
trimester, the development of the fo etus stops there and then, and the

foetus does not grow.  Pregnant women have to be extra careful
during an epidemic of this disease b ecause it is really very dreadful.
In the first three months, the eyes may not form at all or there can be a
serious maldevelopment of the heart.  Similarly, the hearing can also
be seriously affected.  Sometimes, the child is born completely blind
or completely deaf.  Most of these children die in the first few months
after birth.  It may be taken as a blessing for the parents otherwise, if
they survive, they become a cause of  constant worry and anxiety.  If a
woman contracts German measles in the first three months of her
pregnancy, she should be admitted in to a well-equipped clinic and it
should be ensured that the foetus ha s not been afflicted with German
measles.  If so afflicted, the doctors would certainly advise abortion
for the benefit of the mother and the child.

In Euphrasia, there is extreme hypersensitivity to light.  A similar kind
of photophobia is seen in measles al so.  The ailments of Euphrasia
become worse in the evening, in hot weather and in bright light.

Antidotes: Camphor, Pulsatilla, Causticum
Potency: 30

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