Homoeopathy — Page 678
Zincum Metallicum 678 on him due to his age. I gave him one dose of Zincum Sulph CM. Surprisingly, within a few months, his cataract had disappeared completely. He lived many more years afterwards without recurrence of the cataract. Zinc is the best homoeopathic remedy in the prevention of cataract due to degenerative materials being deposited in the eye lens. However, once the cataract process is well-advanced, it should be treated by surgery. If Zinc is administered while the cataract is half-way towards maturity, it will neither disappear nor mature for surgery. Patients at this stage should be left alone, so that their cataract may mature and be treated with surgery. The combination of Calcarea Fluor 6X with Zinc proves much more beneficial. Eye drops of Cineraria Maritima Sussex are also very useful. A drop in each eye, three times a day, helps resolve the cataract quite fast. In general, Zinc Sulph 200 is used once or twice a week. If given in CM potency, it should not be repeated before one month and stopped after one repeat. Zinc 200 is very useful in abating the formation of the whitish membrane appearing inside the eye. In the eyelids, sometimes eyelashes start growing inwards (Trichiasis) and prove quite troublesome. Usually this is treated surgically. But after an operation, another hair can still grow inwards and this may continue to happen. Its permanent cure is Zincum Sulph. I have found it very useful in Potency 200. Zinc also cures Pterygium obviating any need for surgery. When dizzy, a Zinc patient always thinks that he will fall on the left side. Tossing the head around and sinking it into the pillow is also a symptom of Zinc. Zinc is also considered to be useful in the treatment of involuntary movements and tremors of the head and hands (senile tremors). Like Kali Bichrome, a Zinc patient feels pressure and pain at the root of the nose. The gums start receding from the teeth in zincum. Pressure on the gums relieves the discomfort. Children with weak nerves cut their teeth with difficulty. They keep on shaking their feet or rub them against each other due to restlessness. During swallowing, the muscles of the throat hurt. The stomach burns on eating sweet things. Besides this, the patient has a tendency of nausea, vomiting and hiccups. A Zinc patient has the habit of eating