is often hardly any redness in and around the eyes with headaches or eye pain. However, the reverse has also been elicited in the provings, namely: ‘During the headache the eyes were so congested as to attract the attention of everyone, although there was no disagreeable feeling in them’.
Pain and impaired vision from prolonged exertion of the eyes, with photophobia. In many pathological states the pupils are dilated, with black specks before the eyes. Mezger’s provings produced a scintillating scotoma, which persisted for about a quarter of an hour, then remitting for about the same period of time, and returning again. Double vision, asthenopia, and other disturbances of vision are also reported, frequently attended with headaches, vertigo, nausea, faint feeling in epigastrium, etc.
Photophobia, particularly unable to tolerate artificial light; with shooting pains in eyeballs, sensitivity to slightest noise, involuntary twitching of eyelids.
Hale relates that Cimicifuga is reported to have cured catarrhal conjunctivitis.
Ears
Tinnitus, singing or buzzing noises. Sometimes violent buzzing of long standing with impairment of hearing.
Sensitive to least noise in different pathological conditions: mental depression, nervousness, eye pain, spasmodic labour pains.
Nose
There is one remarkable symptom which I quote in full from the proving: ‘At first, dry, stuffed condition of the nostrils, which was soon followed by an open, moist condition, with great sensitiveness to cold air, as if the base of the brain were laid bare, and every inhalation brought the cold air in contact with it; this is exactly similar to that produced by a sudden change of weather in the winter, from cold and dry to damp thawing, as by a south wind which melts the snow’.
Other descriptions of a similar sensation: ‘Breathing hurts in the nose, then up to the forehead and across to the temples in the eyebrows’. ‘If it is cool in the room or outside and I take a breath, the cold hurts in the root of my nose’.