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Brief Homeopathic Indications
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Aconite |
Any case where the symptoms arrive with sudden onset.
Inflammatory processes of the upper respiratory tract are especially
significant.
Early stages of the
inflammatory process including colds, fever, flu, headache, earache and
vomiting.
Can treat shock or where there
is a sudden state of fear, anxiety and anguish of the mind. physical
or mental restlessness.
Complaints caused by exposure
to dry or cold weather including draughts as well as very hot weather
especially gastroenteritis. All the senses appear highly sensitive
such as noise and smells.
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Anas Barbariae |
Commonly used as a preventative for colds and flu.
Recommended for elderly or immune compromised people. For anyone with
respiratory problems that are made worse by cold or flu.
Can be taken if you have been
in contact with anyone with cold or flu as a preventative measure. Can be
taken in conjunction with aconite or ferrum phos.
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Antimonium Crudum
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Indicated when there is a thickly coated white tongue
together with excessive irritability and the symptoms are aggravated
by hot or cold bath. Heat from the sun gives much anguish and displeasure.
Also indicated for gout with
gastrointestinal disturbances. Some other signs may be cracks in the
corners of the mouth, loss of appetite, bloating after eating, canker
sores, constant belching and diarrhoea alternates with constipation.
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Apis Mellifica |
Apis is derived from bee sting so this is indicated
where there is stinging pain from bites and stings from insects including
bees. There is localised redness, heat and swelling.
Can also be used for sore throats,
nettle rash, allergic reactions and where there is any form of localised
swelling.
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Arnica |
Best used for injuries causing bruising and shock.
Good to use during child birth and after any form of surgical or dental
procedure to help hasten the healing process.
Gives rapid repair and healing of
tissue, good to use for pulled muscles and strain from over exertion.
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Arsenicum
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Any signs of food poisoning, vomiting, diarrhoea,
cramping and stomach pains. Also indicated are burning pains, unquenchable
thirst and the mind is irritable with anguish. In some cases the person is
scared they are going to "die" and much body weakness is felt.
Can be used in some cases of
anaemia, where there is gradual weight loss from impaired nutrition.
Headaches that are relieved by
cold, eyes that feel like they are burning and gums may bleed easily and
appear unhealthy.
There may be trembling,
twitching or spasms in the extremities with cramps in calves and swelling
of the feet.
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Aurum Metallicum |
Good for cases of depression where the person feels
hopelessness, despondent and there may be a great desire for suicide.
There is great self destruction similar symptoms may occur similar to
mercurial and syphilitic infections. Glands may be swollen, with heart
palpitations and congestion.
Gold (aurum) in the use of anti
venereal and anti scrofulous has been practiced for centuries, especially
good for cases of syphilis, sexual hyperaesthesia, high blood pressure
combined with mental aspects of low spirits, lifelessness and weak memory.
A great sense of worthlessness
is felt by the person as well as bad headaches that are worse at night.
They may have a feeling as though the heart has stopped beating for a few
seconds followed by palpitations.
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Belladonna
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Compared to Aconite symptoms and good for the use in
first stages of the inflammatory process. Very good for use with
small children especially in cases of earache, colds, flu, fevers, sore
throats, toothaches and throbbing pains.
A true sign of belladonna is
bright redness of the face and cheeks with much heat. Hot red skin with
glaring eyes and overexcited mental state. Screaming and crying in pain
and has an aversion to water. There is generally no thirst with fever.
Good as a remedy for air
sickness and used by aviators as a preventative. Belladonna is good for a
violent attack with a sudden onset. Person may even seem to be
experiencing hallucinations and delirium with fitting and raging.
(terrible two year old tantrum) where child has red face and appears to be
in a world of their own.
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Bryonia |
Any condition where there is much dryness. Cases of
hard dry cough with pain that is aggravated by coughing. Pain from deep
breathing and where there is a headache, rheumatic joint pain that is made
worse by movement.
Pneumonia where there is dryness and pain under the
sternum, there may also be nausea, faintness on rising, confusion,
bursting headache as if hit by a hammer. Generally where there is frontal
headaches or frontal sinuses involved.
The lips may also be dry,
parched, rough and cracked. The throat is also dry and parched, tongue is
coated yellow or dark brown with bitter taste in mouth.
There may be hoarseness made
worse in open air with dry hacking cough from trachea irritation.
Difficult quick breathing, croup and pleuro-pneumonia. warm rooms make the
cough worse and seem to aggravate the condition.
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Calcarea Carbonica
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For the tickling cough, spasmodic chest pains,
nausea, acidity and an aversion to fatty foods. There may be
localised and general perspiration, swelling glands and the person may
become out of breath easily.
The calc. carb. patient is generally "fair, fat and
flabby" with much perspiration that "wets the pillow". They may be
forgetful, confused, low spirited and apprehensive.
They may suffer from
hypothyroidism and goitre as well as swollen tonsils and sub maxillary
glands with stitching pains on swallowing.
They have much thirst longing
for cold drinks, they may also have an aversion to meat, boiled things
with a craving for indigestible things and sweets. Milk upsets their
stomach.
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Calcarea Fluorica |
A great tissue remedy for hard, stony glands,
varicose veins and bone malnutrition. Breast lumps that are hard in the
breast tissue and cataracts may also be helped by this remedy.
Congenital syphilis manifesting
itself in ulcerations of the mouth and throat also good for tuberculosis.
Person may seem depressed and
has a fear of financial ruin. There are flickering sparks before the eyes,
spots on the cornea, conjunctivitis and subcutaneous palpebral cysts.
Any cases of hard swellings
throughout the body and they may also have stomach and digestive
complaints.
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Calcarea Phosphorica
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Great for use with teething poor appetite, cramping
and colic in babies. As well as stomach pains, tonsillitis and
headaches in adolescents. Has similar symptoms of Calc. carb. however
there are differences and characteristics of its own.
Anaemic children who are
irritable, flabby, have cold hands and feet and weak digestion. Has
affinity where bones are malformed as it is said to improve the absorption
of nutrients and has a tonic effect at times of rapid growth.
The symptoms may become worse
with a change in weather and there may be numbness and a feeling of
crawling and cold sensations on the skin.
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Calcarea Sulphurica |
Good for some cases of eczema and glandular swellings
as well as cystic tumours, fibroids and where the mucous discharges are
yellow, thick and lumpy.
Colds with thick yellow purulent secretions
frequently tinged with blood. One sided discharge from the nose and edges
of the nostrils are sore.
Good during the last stages of
an ulcerated throat or suppurating stage of tonsillitis when the abscess
is discharging. Sometimes the person may feel burning and itching on the
soles of the feet. Dry eczema in children.
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Cantharis
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Has an affinity for urinary and respiratory organs.
Conditions including Cystitis and urinary infections with pain and burning
on urination.
Good for sore burning throats
that are painful when swallowing. Things go down the wrong way.
Stuttering conditions where
there is confusion of thought and speech or wavering speech, hasty and
incoherent.
Also used for indigestion that
is painful, stinging cold sores, burns, scalds and sunburn to the skin.
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Carbo Vegetabilis |
Disintegration and irregular oxidation is the keynote
of this remedy. A general patient is usually sluggish, fat, lazy and tends
towards chronic type symptoms. Poor circulation with blueness, coldness
and ecchymosis.
The body tends towards coldness may have blue lips and fingertips, signs
of cyanosis. Bacterial blood infections as the blood is stagnant and
sepsis and typhoidal states may ensue.
Patient may feel weakness,
sleepiness and have spells of fainting, collapse with a desire for fresh
air and fanning. Cold sweats with a cold clammy face.
Digestive complaints due to
slow sluggish digestion and good for people with poor appetites after
having surgery or an illness.
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Chamomilla
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Another great children's remedy good for teething and
colicky babies. Also good for colds, fevers, earaches and the child
can't be pleased and is restless, thirsty, cranky and very sensitive to
any pain. A tell
tale sign for chamomilla is one check red and one cheek pale.
Good for the abuse of coffee
and narcotics with pains that are unendurable associated with numbness and
night sweats.
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Cocculus |
Good for treating paretic conditions notably those
affecting one half of the body ie; after a stroke. Conditions causing
dizziness, travel sickness and jet lag
Also for situations that may
disturb or interrupt sleep and can be taken to help cope with shift work,
nursing the sick or tending to a sleepless baby or child.
The mind may feel heavy, time
seems to pass too quickly, may have profound sadness and is very anxious
about the health of others.
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Colocynthis |
Used for cramping pains that cause doubling over. For
griping, flatulent colic with diarrhoea. menstrual cramping pains with
contracting and twisting pain as if clamped with iron bands.
the mind is extremely irritable
and becomes angry at the slightest questioning.
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Digitalis
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Primarily for conditions of the heart, in conditions
where there is a slow, weak, irregular pulse. Weakness and dilation
of the myocardium. auricular flutter and fibrillation especially when
caused by rheumatic fever.
Heart disease such as great weakness and faintness,
poor circulation, cold skin and irregular respiration. This remedy helps
to improve the strength and force of the heart beat (systolic). Patient
may seem anxious about their future and may suffer from a depressed state
of mind due to bad circulation of blood to the brain.
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Ferrum Metallicum |
Young children with a failure to thrive, weak,
anaemic, cold extremities, over sensitiveness and who flush easily. Looks
pale and weak with irregular distribution of blood with appearance of
cyanosis in some cases.
May be irritable and dislikes loud noises likes quiet
room. Headaches caused from poor circulation of blood to the brain, pain
is in the back of the head. It is noted that there is a Midnight
aggravation that indicates this remedy. Pain is relieved by icy cold
water.
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Ferrum Phosphoricum
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For early stages of fever, colds and other illnesses
for generally off colour complaints. Good to use for catarrh affected
respiratory tract.
Can be used for anemia to be taken twice daily
especially if the anemia is due to lack of iron.
May have an aversion to meat
and milk. In cases of vomiting up undigested food. Sluggish slow
digestion.
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Gelsemium |
Good to use in cases where the nervous system is
affected. For anxiety, restlessness, stage fright, fear, exam nerves
and can be taken in anticipation of a worrying event.
May have muscular weakness,
dizziness, drowsiness or trembling. For headaches extending from the
temple to the ear.
For flu like aches and pains
including aching joints where the person has no energy and feels listless
and tired.
Also in cases of Measles,
sluggish circulation and pellagra.
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Graphites
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Good to use with people that are stout or heavy of fair
complexion with skin complaints such as eczema or psoriasis. Tend
towards constipation are generally cold or get cold very easily.
The skin complaints tend to
suppurate and weep with honey like sticky yellow exudation.
Duodenal ulcers, may suffer
nausea, fullness or hardness in the abdomen. May have flatulence due to
sluggish digestion. They generally have an aversion to meat and sweets
nauseate while hot drinks tend to disagree with them as well.
They may suffer a burning
sensation in the stomach that causes hunger and the pain is temporarily
relieved by eating.
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Hepar Suphuris |
For infection and right sides sore throats with
"splinter" like pains. Good to use on people that have sluggish lymphatic
circulation and may suffer from conditions like boils, acne, styes cold
sores, herpes and weeping eczema.
For colds with coughs that are barking and have much
yellow mucus. Generally infected sinus that creates a lot of pus and mucus
to be produced.\
Suffers from vertigo and
headache when the head is shaken, pain the right temple and may have a
cold sweat on the head.
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Hypericum
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Good remedy for injuries especially those of the
nerves that affect fingers toes and nails. For crushed or jammed
fingers especially the tips. Can be used for splinters, bits and stings.
This remedy promotes rapid healing
and is especially good to be taken after surgery as well as dental
treatment and helps top prevent infection setting in.
Indications include tingling,
burning and numbness as well as constant drowsiness and for when someone
is suffering from shock.
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Ignatia |
This is the first remedy to think of for cases of
shock, sudden loss or grief, break up, homesickness, mental strain and
general emotional upsets. Lots of sighing and sobbing.
Headache from bending over,
stooping or crying. Heavy headed eyes feel hollow, headache as though a
nail has been driven through. Congestive headaches made worse from
smelling or smoking tobacco.
Light sleeping, jerking of
limbs on going to sleep, insomnia from grief and sadness.
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Iodium
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Acts prominently on connective tissue, goitre,
capillary congestion followed by swelling and chronic inflammation.
An iodium individuals are
generally exceedingly thin, dark complexion with enlarged lymph glands.
Large appetite but does not grow fat, stays thin. Very rapid metabolism
with much hunger and thirst.
Generally crave cold air, gums
bleed easily, halitosis, has ravenous hunger. Croupy coughs with difficult
respiration. Worse indoors and in warm wet weather.
Inflamed joints cold hands and
feet, though skin is generally hot and dry, heart feels as though it's
being squeezed.
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Ipecacuanha |
Nausea and vomiting are a prominent feature
indicating this remedy. This is due to the main action being on the pneumo-gastric
nerve. Especially indicated in overweight children and adults who are weak
and catch cold in warm moist weather.
Generally irritable and holds everything in contempt,
feels pain through the eyeballs profuse lachrymation.
May have blue rings around the
eyes, tongue is generally clean though there is much nausea and saliva.
Vomits food, bile, blood and mucus.
Also a good remedy for Morning
sickness during pregnancy, travel sickness and gastric upset.
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Kali Bichromicum
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This remedy has an affinity with mucous membranes of
the stomach, bowels and air passages. Kidney, heat and liver are also
affected. Good for chronic sinusitis with thick catarrh or so congested
that there is no discharge.
Bronchitis with little or
difficult expectoration, ulcerated throat and hoarseness.
throat is red and inflamed, dry
or rough, burning extending to stomach. Gastritis and stomach
ulcers. Metallic hacking cough with profuse yellow expectoration, very
glutinous and sticky.
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Kali Carbonicum |
All Kali pains are sharp and cutting. One of the best
remedies following labor, miscarriage or consequent debilitated states.
Early morning aggravation is common
Sweat with backache and
weakness, throbbing pains. Mood is very irritable full of fear and
imaginations. Anxiety is felt in the stomach and never wants to be left
alone.
Headache from riding in cold
wind and great dryness of hair, it falls out easily. Stitching pain in the
liver region, old chronic liver troubles with soreness. Coldness of chest
with wheezing, better in a warm climate. Back and legs give out, small of
back feels weak.
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Kali Muriaticum |
White or grey coating of tongue with thick white
nasal discharges and phlegm are guiding symptoms. Good for colds,
earache, glandular swelling, tonsilitis and mouth ulcers with sharp pains.
Good for tonsilitis or follicular
tonsillitis any condition where the tonsils are inflamed. Voice is hoarse,
mucus is white and hard to cough up. Rattling sounds of air passing
through the mucus, asthma and whooping cough.
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Kali Phosphoricum
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A great nerve remedy, good for prostration, lethargy
or feeling weak and tired. Especially in young people. There is a
disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system.
Should be thought of in the
treatment of suspected malignant tumours and after removal of cancer when
in healing process the skin is drawn tightly over the wound.
Good to use in conditions of
chronic fatigue and other nervous exhaustion states. Headaches caused by
mental strain, over work and studying.
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Lachesis |
From snake poison, haemorrhagic conditions are
indicated, especially Purpura, septic states, diphtheria and other low
forms of disease or where the system become poisoned. Delirium
tremens (DT's), where there is much trembling and confusion.
A guiding symptom is the patient
cannot bare anything tight anywhere on their body. Depressed state of
mind, not wanting to mix with the world.
Restless and uneasy, does not
wish to go to work or mix with others, Jealousy and contempt as well as
suspicious of others and very untrusting.
May talk behind people's back
and be malicious or have malicious tendencies. Derangement of the
time sense. Negative personality that trusts no one.
Pains always seem worse on left
side including sore throats, headaches and toothache. Lachesis sleeps in
to aggravation and ailments come on during sleep.
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Ledum
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Great remedy for bites, stings and any wounds that
are puncture like. Any skin eruption producing reaction like poison oak,
mottled skin, inflamed or producing a rash. Can be used for tentanus with
twitching of muscles near wound.
Can be taken as a preventative if traveling to
tropical areas where there are lots of biting insects.
Also good for rheumatism that
begins in the feet and travels upward.
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Lycopodium |
Leading symptoms are generally urinary or digestive
disturbances. Ailments gradually develop over a period of time. Digestive
problems due to liver congestion or where the liver is seriously affected.
Skin signs may show yellowish
spots (due to liver complaints), earthy complexion. Symptoms generally run
from right to left and are worse from about 4 to 8pm.
Kidney complaints may include;
red sand in urine, backache which worsens before urination. Likes to drink
warm drinks. Person lacks vital heat and has weak circulation.
Pains may also come and go suddenly, very sensitive to noise and odours.
Characteristics of mentals
include, being afraid to be alone, little things annoy them and they may
be extremely sensitive.
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Mercurius
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Bleeding gums, mouth ulcers and septic sore throat
with excessive saliva and bad breath. Any glandular swellings
including chronic ear complaints, red and sore ears. Abscesses that won't
mend. Pain and symptoms are generally worse at night.
Secondary stage syphilis which
produce rheumatic pains behind sternum and around joints. Falling of hair
and conditions that affect glands, internal organs and bones producing
lesions.
All mercury symptoms are worse
at night and worse during perspiration. Breath, excretions and body
smell offensive.
Person showing mental signs for
mercury remedy to be used are; generally slow in answering questions,
memory loss or loss of will power, weary of life, mistrustful and have
vertigo when lying on back.
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Natrum Muriaticum |
A good remedy for the start of a cold or fever when a
symptom included the nose "running like a tap". Also can be considered
incases of oedema, swollen ankles, gout, chlorosis and
disturbances of the alimentary tract and skin.
May be used to treat hay fever or
allergy where the nose and eyes are watery. In some cases of anaemia where
there is great debility and weakness along with dry mucous membranes.
Cases of hyperthyroidism,
goitre, Addison's disease and diabetes.
Emotional state may include
depressed especially in chronic diseases, they don't like to be consoled,
wants to be alone to cry and has tears with laughter. Person may crave
salt.
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Nux Vomica
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All problems caused by overindulgence, this is the
classic hangover remedy used by many. Also good to treat overwork,
sedentary lifestyle, night watching and shift workers and times when the
body clock is upset.
Good for excesses of all kinds including alcohol,
caffeine, recreational drugs, mental over stimulation and computer
game addicts.
Treats all conditions that
produce an irritable nervous system and hypersensitivity. Conditions that
effect the liver this remedy helps the nervous system also to calm and
sooth the body. Typically known as a male remedy for the "playboy" type
that likes to overindulge with alcohol, wine and rich foods that disturb
the liver.
Generally mentally they have a
zealous fiery temperament, are easily chilled, very irritable, cannot
stand loud noises, strong odours or light and they do not want to be
touched.
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Phosphorus |
A broad spectrum remedy that include symptoms
affecting the mucous membranes causing inflammation, fatty degenerations
giving rise to haemorrhages and jaundice.
Treats bronchitis, loose dry
spasmodic coughs. Hoarseness, vomiting and heartburn. Any condition where
there is inflammation of the respiratory tract.
Skin and nervous system
complaints with weak bones. Ill effects of Iodine and excessive use
of salt.
Mentally they may be in low
spirits, fearful, may fear thunderstorms, twilight, ghosts and the
unknown. Fears death when alone, restless fidgety or may even be
hyposensitive and indifferent.
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Pulsatilla
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Good for treating colds and congestive complaints
that produce thick yellow mucus. Treats earaches, sinusitis,
conjunctivitis and sticky eyelids.
The pulsatilla personality and mental state are chief
guiding symptoms when using this remedy as they are mostly, mild, gentle,
yielding, timid, sad and cries easily, weeps when talking. Fears the
dark, to be alone and ghosts.
Also a good children's remedy
for the weaker temperament, changeable and contradictory also for
childhood illnesses affecting the mucous membranes. Also illnesses that
cause rashes such as measles or chicken pox.
Patient is generally thirstless,
peevish and chilly with great sensitivity and usually needs more than one
pillow to be comfortable. Lies on the bed asleep with hands above head.
Good to treat PMS, menstrual
symptoms and hot flushes in menopause.
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Rhus Toxicodendron |
The effects on the skin, rheumatic pain and
inflammation of the mucous membranes. Rhus is notably good for fibrous
tissue such as joints and tendons.
Any pain and stiffness of joints and bone especially
felt in the mornings, symptoms tend to improve throughout the day and feel
much better from movement.
Also known to treat shingles,
chicken pox, eczema and cold sores.
The Rhus Tox personality may be
listless and sad with some thoughts of suicide. Extreme restlessness with
continued change of position. Great apprehension at night, cannot remain
in bed.
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Sabadilla |
Hay fever symptoms, has an action on the mucous
membranes and the lachrymal glands. Eyelids may feel like they are
burning. Treats
children's diarrhoea with constant cutting pains.
Patients tend to be sensitive
to cold, the mind is nervous, timid and easily startled.
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Sepia
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Great remedy for menstrual symptoms such as;
irregularity, dragging pains, heaviness, headaches and hot flushes of
menopause. Sepia
acts best on brunettes with pain starting from below moving up. Hepatic
complaints, feel cold even in a warm room and pulsating headache.
Sepia personality tends to be
indifferent to loved ones, irritable, don't like to be consoled, wants to
be left alone and tend to be better for exercise and movement.
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Silica |
A deep and slow acting remedy known for treating
boils, abscesses, gum sores, glandular swellings and ingrown hairs. Helps
the body to expel splinters, thorns and foreign objects from the body.
Has been known to help expel
shrapnel from the body and caution should be taken for those with teeth
fillings or other foreign elements contained within the body such as knee
replacements, pacemakers etc.
Diseases affecting bones, teeth
and necrosis (dead/dying tissue). Silica can stimulate the body to
reabsorb fibrotic conditions and scar tissue. Caution should be taken that
it does not release walled in disease/bacteria, that has been bound by the
immune system inside boils, causing the disease to then spread to other
areas.
Can be thought of for the ill
effects of vaccination.
Patient generally has a lack of
heat, is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty of warm clothing, hates
drafts and is worse in winter.
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Spongia Tosta
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Good to use for croup and colds with a dry cough
giving a sense of tickling and irritation in the throat. Barking coughs.
This remedy is useful in following aconite as a remedy for croup.
The patient's symptoms are
generally worse around midnight with increased anxiety and difficult
breathing.
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Sulphur
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A good anti-psoric remedy, having an affinity for the
skin where it produces heat, burning and itching. Often used in cases of
dry scaly skin made worse from bathing or heat of bed.
Conditions including hot flushes
in menopause, dry and hard hair and skin, patient may have a sinking
feeling in stomach about 11am and feels hungry.
The mental signs known with
sulphur include being very forgetful, difficult thinking, they may
look dirty or appear scruffy, delusional and imagines he is immensely
wealthy, is busy all the time. May also be quite selfish, no regard for
others with religious melancholy.
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Thuja Occidentalis
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Acts on the skin, blood, gastrointestinal tract,
kidneys and brain. Good to use when treating warts and growths on the skin
especially corns and calluses on the feet. Tinea and fungal infections
with weak distorted nails.
Should be thought of for the ill effects of
vaccinations especially in children. Pains that are tearing in muscles and
joints and worse when at rest. Better in dry weather.
Mentals may include patient
having fixed ideas and may have a strange sensation of the body and the
mind being separated, looking at own hand but feeling as though it belongs
to another person.
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Veratrum album
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For violent vomiting and collapse, very painful
vomiting with cramping, exhaustion and rapid prostration. Generally
dehydrated with cold sweat, bluish sunken eyes.
Good for post-operative shock
with cold sweat on forehead, pale face and rapid but feeble pulse.
The mind is restless almost
mania, frenzied excitement, shrieks and curses.
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