Gelsemium: Ptosis, eyelids heavy, patient can hardly open them. The eye-balls feel sore, worse on moving. Muscular paralysis of the eyes due to diphtheria, meningitis, emotion or exposure to cold or wet weather.
Rhus Tox: In rheumatic patients as a result of getting wet.
Sepia: When associated with menstrual irregularities.
Kalmia L: In rheumatic patients when lids feel stiff.
Causticum: In rheumatic subjects when the paralysis of ocular muscles causes headache due to exposure to dry cold. It has less paralysis then Gelsemium but more than Rhus Tox.
Alumina: Associated with rectal inertia and consequent constipation.
Cocculus: Ptosis after diphtheria when Gelsemium fails.
