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Early stages of the acute inflammatory process, in the first 24 hours.

Take at the first sign of illness, the effects of this remedy are gone in 1

hour and so it may need frequent repetition initially. Ailments often

come on suddenly during the night after exposure to dry, windy

weather or a fright such as fever, croup, colds, influenza, earache,

vomiting etc. It is considered the vitamin C of Homoeopathy and is

often used with Ferrum Phos. Compare with Belladonna and

Chamomilla.

Pain with touch or uncovering, numbness, pins & needles. Skin hot

and dry. States of shock, anxiety and fear, fear of death.

Modalities – both sides, very thirsty for cold water, pupils may be

contracted. Worse cold winds.

Aconite

Hay fever and colds with profuse clear nasal discharge and frequent

sneezing. The symptoms are ‘as if peeling onions’. This remedy may

require frequent repetition, every ½ - 1 hr as necessary.

The profuse nasal discharge excoriates but the eye discharge does

not although the eyes themselves may burn. Symptoms often begin

with sneezing (compare Nat Mur). Better cold rooms and open air.

This remedy helps the body to flush out dead viruses and dead white

blood cells, it acts like a natural antibiotic.

Allium cepa

This remedy has a proactive action against colds and flu. Take a dose

fortnightly or monthly depending on susceptibility. Especially

recommended for the elderly and those who suffer respiratory

problems.

Repeat when in contact with an infected person or at the first sign of

symptoms, in conjunction with the indicated remedy (eg Aconite,

Ferrum phos). Anas barb is usually only effective during the first 24

hours of cold or flu symptoms after that choose another remedy based

on your symptom picture.

Anas barbariae

Wheezy, difficult breathing with much rattling mucous which cannot be

expectorated. Suffocative feeling with sweat, debility and a bluish

tinge around the eyes and lips.

The mucous can be abundant, ropy, white and sticky and difficult to

expectorate. Excessive salivation. Cough worse 3-4am. Nausea and

vomiting. Craving for apples and acid drinks that disagree. Averse to

milk. Pustular eruptions leaving a blue red scar (compare with Ant

Crud).

Antimonium tartrate

Bites and stings such as bee stings with redness, heat

and swelling.

Also good for hives, nettle rash, allergic eruptions and

even for sore throats and cystitis with classic stinging

pains and sensation of swelling.

Joint pain with red, puffy swelling and stinging pain.

Apis

Accidents and injuries with bruising and shock, or

simply for feeling ‘as if bruised and beaten’. Bruising,

knocks to the head and soft tissue damage.

Use during childbirth and for surgical and dental

procedures to promote rapid repair and healing.

Take 4 hourly during air travel to reduce jet lag.

Arnica

Digestive symptoms with vomiting, diarrhoea and

burning stomach cramps, ‘as if poisoned’ they feel they

will die. Restless anxiety especially around midnight to

2am.

Second stage of a cold; feels weak and chilly with

runny nose, cough and wheezing.

A dose a day while travelling helps with the adjustment

to change, it protects from colds and stomach upsets.

Arsenicum

Compare with Aconite for the first stage of the

inflammatory process, particularly in small children.

Ailments such as earache, colds, flu, fever, sore throat,

headache, toothache, threatened mastitis etc which

come on suddenly. Intense, throbbing pain, cramping

congestion, bright redness and heat of the face or

affected part. Repeat often.

Belladonna

Hard, dry cough with pain under the sternum

aggravated by coughing and any movement even

breathing deeply.

Also helpful for headaches, colicky abdominal pains or

rheumatic joint pains which are worse from movement.

Grumpy, irritable and wants to be left alone to rest.

Bryonia

Teething, poor appetite, leg cramps, colic in babies,

stomach pains and headaches in adolescents.

Craves salt and smoked meats.

Whining and discontented. Tired, thin, glandular and

growing.

It improves the absorption of nutrients and has a tonic

effect at times of rapid growth.

Calc Phos

Painful urination with burning, scalding and great

urgency.

Raw sore throat with burning and stinging. Burning

indigestion. Burning and stinging cold sores.

Burns, scalds and sunburn with violent burning and

rapid blistering.

Cantharis

Weakness, feeling faint, desires fresh air and fanning.

Cold sweat, bluish lips and cold, clammy face.

Bloating, wind and digestive problems especially when

digestion is slow and the appetite is poor after a bout of

illness, fasting or medical or surgical procedures.

Reaction to shellfish with vomiting & diarrhoea. Pasty

and clammy, feeling faint.

Carbo vegetablis

Teething, colic, colds, fevers, earaches etc.

One cheek red and one pale. Greenish diarrhoea.

Wants to be carried or picked up and then put down

over and over. Extremely irritable and angry. Restless,

thirsty, cranky and sensitive to pain, can’t be pleased.

Severe menstrual cramps, angry and irritable.

Chamomilla

Travel sickness, jet lag, dizziness, ailments from

disturbed sleep.

Dizzy with an empty hollow feeling. Nausea and

aversion to food.

Sad, depressed and exhausted by worry and lack of

sleep, nursing loved ones and getting up to sleepless

children. Exhausted and must lay down.

Cocculus

Violent, spasmodic, cramping pains with doubling up.

Griping, flatulent colic with diarrhoea. Menstrual

cramps or ovulation cramps that may be so severe

that there is vomiting and fainting.

Pain may make the person scream and writhe about.

Better from firm pressure, heat and doubling up.

Colocynthis

Eye complaints, hay fever and colds with dry, itching,

gritty feeling, acrid tears and light sensitivity.

Margins of the eyes may be red, burning, itchy and

swollen.

Hacking day time cough that may bring tears to the

eyes.

Euphrasia

This is a tissue salt made from Iron phospate.

It’s good for the early stages of illness for feverish

complaints and when generally ‘off colour’. Fever,

earache and nose bleeds.

Use it on its own or with Aconite or Belladonna.

Twice daily for anaemia or after any excessive blood

loss to help the body rebuild iron supplies.

Ferrum phos

Flu symptoms with slow onset and classic aches and

pains. The pains are bursting or pulsating.

Droopy, drowsy and feeling heavy and listless.

Anticipatory anxiety. Fear, stage fright, exam nerves

and nervous anxiety. Repeat often prior to a worrying

event.

Gelsemium

Infections like boils, splinters, acne, styes, right sided

sore throats with ‘splinter like’ pains. Ear pain with

throbbing. Worse cold wind and drafts.

Cold sores, herpes, eczema with suppuration.

Rough, barking, rattly cough with yellow mucous.

Hoarseness. Third stage of croup after Aconite and

Spongia.

Hepar sulph

Injury involving areas rich in nerves ‘the Arnica of the

nerves’. Shooting, burning, stinging pains.

Jammed fingers, bricks on toes, puncture wounds,

splinters, bites and stings with long shooting pains,

coccyx pain.

After surgery including dental treatment as it promotes

healing of wounds, scratches and cuts.

Hypericum

Emotional upsets, shock, grief, hysteria, emotional and

mental strain. Homesickness.

Sighing and trembling with changeable moods,

disturbed sleep and eating patterns. Lump in the

throat sensation. Empty feeling not relieved by eating.

Headache from crying.

Contradictory and paradoxical symptoms.

Ignatia

Persistent nausea and vomiting.

Morning sickness, travel sickness, gastric upset,

hoarse, spasmodic cough with nausea and vomiting.

Bloody discharges, especially with nausea.

Sensitive to noise, chilly, irritable and averse to food.

Ipecac

Chronic sinusitis or thick catarrh with thick, ropy,

yellow, stringy discharge, or so congested that there is

no discharge.

Catarrhal headache, the pain may be in a small spot.

Bronchitis symptoms with difficult expectoration,

ulcerated throat, hoarseness.

Kali bic

Thick, white nasal discharges and catarrh.

Earache and glue ear. Stuffy head colds, glandular

swellings, tonsillitis with white coating on the tonsils.

Thrush and mouth ulcers.

Deafness with crackling in the ears on swallowing or

blowing the nose.

Kali mur

This tissue salt is a tonic and nutrient for the brain and

nerve tissues.

Headache from mental strain, over work or studying.

Fatigue associated with jet travel. Convalescence.

Sleep disturbances with insomnia. Depressed and

exhausted.

Kali phos

Bites, stings and puncture wounds. The skin is swollen,

pale and mottled.

Use once daily, when traveling in the tropics or to

insect infested areas.

This remedy supports the body to cleanse the blood.

Use it after Arnica for black eyes, bruises and sprains

to promote healing.

Ledum

A deficiency of this tissue salt causes tissues to cramp

and contract.

Use for spasmodic pains, cramps, menstrual cramps,

abdominal colic and wind. Leg cramps and growing

pains.

Shooting, darting, stabbing neuralgic pains.

Mag phos

Mouth ulcers and inflamed gums that are spongy and

bleed easily. Septic sore throat with excessive saliva

and foul breath.

Chronic ear problems, glandular swellings and

abscesses that won’t resolve.

Diarrhoea preceded by chilliness.

Offensive night sweats and generally worse at night.

Mercurius

Colds start with sneezing and the nose runs like a tap.

Eczema or acne along the hairline or in the creases of

a joint.

PMS and menstrual symptoms. Dryness of vagina at

menopause.

Sad, irritable, depressed and wants to be left alone.

Craves salt or is averse to it.

Nat mur

Ailments from overindulgence, overwork, sedentary

habits, night watching, shift work, travel, and at times

when the body clock is upset. Insomnia from 3-4 am

with thoughts of business then wakes cross and

irritable. Stressed, critical and over-sensitive. Hangover

remedy for excesses of food, alcohol, coffee, drugs

and mental stimulation. Stuffy colds and hay fever,

nose drips during the day. Bloated and flatulent.

Nux vomica

All kinds of coughs; loose, dry, spasmodic coughs.

Hoarseness.

Vomiting and heartburn. Desires ice cold water then

vomits as it warms in the stomach.

Easy nosebleeds.

Many fears; thunder, storms, twilight, the dark, ghosts

and the unknown.

Phosphorus

Thick, bland, yellow– green mucous. Eye complaints,

styes and sticky eyelids.

Colds, congestive coughs, earaches and sinusitis.

Tummy aches from rich, fatty foods, pork or ice cream.

PMS, menstrual symptoms and menopausal flushes.

Rashy illnesses like measles or chicken pox.

Clingy, weepy and moody. They want consolation,

company, fresh air and they want their mum’s attention.

Pulsatilla

Pain and stiffness of bone, connective tissue, joints or

tendons from overexertion.

Restless and stiff on beginning to move, much better

from movement – the ‘rusty gate remedy’.

Flu with joint pain from getting wet while perspiring.

Shingles, chicken pox, eczema and cold sores with

blisters.

Rhus tox

Sprains and strains of knees, wrists and ankles,

contusion of the bone, similar to Arnica.

Stiffness and pain in the joints and limbs with bruised

weakness and weariness. Sciatica.

Eye strain and eye fatigue with blurred vision.

Assists healing after blows and fractures, surgery to

bony areas and dental surgery.

Ruta grav

Menstrual symptoms with irregularity, dragging pains

and heaviness.

Hot flushes, dryness and headaches at menopause.

Lower back pain with dragging aching.

Emotionally worn down, depressed, irritable and

indifferent. Averse to consolation, wants to be left

alone. Better exercise or dancing.

Sepia

Boils, ingrown hairs, abscesses, suppurations with

failure to resolve and heal well. Poor resistance to

infection. Helps expel splinters, thorns etc.

Frequent colds, gum boils, glandular swellings,

recurrent ear infections, sinusitis.

Dry, fragile skin. Head and foot sweats. Nails weak and

break easily.

Silica

Croup and colds with a dry, raucous cough and a

sense of tickling or irritation in the throat. Barking like a

seal and burning rawness and weakness in the chest.

This remedy follows Aconite well for croup. Worse

around midnight.

Marked anxiety with the suffocative attacks.

Spongia

Dry, scaly skin conditions, worse from bathing and the

warmth of the bed.

Menopausal hot flushes with burning heat.

Haemorrhoids with burning.

Helps restore balance after antibiotics and other

medicines, take 6c potency twice daily for a week.

Sulphur

Warty growths, also think of Antimonium Crudum

when there is a tendency to corns, warts and calluses

especially on feet.

Tinea and fungal infections.

Weak, distorted nails with ridges and streaks (or

consider Silica).

Thuja

Violent, painful vomiting with cutting and cramping

pains in the bowel, limbs and calves.

Dizziness, exhaustion and rapid prostration. Fearful,

dehydrated and collapsed with pale face, cold sweat,

bluish sunken eyes and cold limbs.

Severe menstrual cramps with sweat and collapse.

Veratrum album

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