Probably the first and easiest way to witness the efficiency of homoeopathic prescribing is to use it in acute emergencies. These may be from serious injury to only a slight scratch. If there are any doubts about the diagnosis or prescription a qualified homoeopath should be consulted
Symptoms & Prescription
BITES & STINGS- Always if possible remove the sting carefully, or scrape off with a knife. If available neutralize the toxins locally with vinegar or lemon juice. Use internally APIS or LED every 10 minutes until swelling subsides. For allergic reactions to bites and stings use APIS every 10 minutes.
BLEEDING- Bright Red Blood, internally give PHOS, FERR PHOS, IPEC or BELL. For collapse, fainting and weakness following loss of blood use CARBO VEG or FERR PHOS. Repeated nosebleeds without apparent cause or from being over heated use FERR PHOS. Recurrent bleeding in old people use CARBO VEG. With throbbing headache and flushed face use BELL.
BOILS- Do not squeeze or puncture a boil as it may only drive the infection deeper. Apply a hot compress of CAL/HYP LOTION several times a day. When the boil breaks, clean away the pus and apply a sterile dressing soaked in the lotion. Internally give HEP SULPH.
BRUISES-Take ARN every 30 minutes for approx. 6 doses, repeat 4 times per day until bruising gone.
BURNS- For minor burns use the BURSCAL CREAM. Internally give CANTH, HYP and ARN.
COLDS & FLU- In the first 24 hours of a cold or flu, acute, sudden and violent invasion with fever; ACON, BELL if face is red and flushed. Cold fully established, thick, irritating discharge; MERC. Thin irritating discharge; ARS ALB. Sneezes every time goes into a cold, dry wind, with running from nose, later, thick, offensive discharge., whenever congestion turns yellow to green; HEP SULPH. Loss of smell with cold, SULPH. Loss of taste with cold; PULS. Sensitive to a falling barometer; cold and dampness bring on cold with aches and pains; GELS. If antibiotics have been used take SULPH twice daily for a week to correct the side effects. As a preventative during winter take ANAS BARB 200 weekly or daily if cold /flu manifests.
COLD SORES- MERC or HEPAR SULPH can be used. Can be taken as preventative.
COUGHS- For coughs of all kinds, loose, dry, spasmodic; PHOS. Short, dry, irritative cough; during sleep; ACON. Spasmodic, coming on in the night; ARS. ALB. Cough from rawness in larynx, violent spasmodic cough with copious expectoration of mucus; SULP. Cough on waking, on moving about, cough on lying down, must sit up; BRY. Irritative laryngeal cough, heat and redness of the face; BELL. Dry cough; induced by ticking in larynx and each cough very painful; ALL CEPA. Dry cough; violent cough as if would suffocate, ending in vomiting, then spitting of blood; HEP SULPH. Great rattling of mucous with little expectoration; ANT TART. Catarrhal inflammatory cough, burning soreness, hoarseness, pains about the chest; MERC. Cough loose by day, dry and tickling on lying down at night, disappears on sitting up in bed; PULS. Violent Cough with little or no expectoration; cough induced by exertion; Tightness of breath; NUX VOM. Cough caused by itching in the larynx, hoarse, spasmodic; CARBO VEG. Spasmodic cough with catarrh; with retching; IPEC. Cough, dry, barking, croupy; Croup < during inspiration and before midnight; SPONG. Spasmodic cough; MAG PHOS. Dry and spasmodic cough with vomiting; FERR PHOS.
CYSTITIS-Either APIS or CANTH can be used.
DIARRHOEA- Vomiting & purging, much cutting colic; dehydration & intense thirst; VERAT ALB. Diarrhoea & soreness of anus; CHAM. Diarrhoea from anxiety; ACON.
EAR ACHES- External ear hot, red, painful, swollen; ACON. Tearing pain in middle and external ear that comes on suddenly; BELL. Noises and throbbing; when Bell. Fails; prevents suppuration; FERR PHOS. With thick bland discharge; offensive odour; PULS. Whizzing and throbbing in ears, with hardness of hearing; HEP SULPH. Earache with soreness, swelling and heat driving patient frantic; CHAM.
FAINTING-Consider one of these remedies: ARN, ACON, IGN, CARBO VEG, FERR PHOS or BACH FLOWER RESCUE REMEDY.
FEVERS- Children will often get fevers, due to teething or a virus that comes on suddenly with face red and flushed use BELL. All catarrhal and inflammatory fevers; FERR PHOS.
HAYFEVER- Violent sneezing, lachrymation, redness and swelling of eyelids, itching and burning of eyes, catarrhal symptoms; ALL CEPA. Itching and burning in eyes; PUL. As if sand in them; ACON. Sneezes every time he goes into a cold, dry wind, with running from nose, later, thick, offensive discharge, eyes profuse discharge, great sensitiveness to touch and air, red and inflamed; HEP SULPH.
HEADACHES-Grief, stooping, as if nail driven out through side; IGN. In forehead and temples, fullness and throbbing, flushed face, hot head; BELL. As if scalp compressed all over, blind headache; ACON. Over left eye; CARBO VEG. From overindulgence; NUX VOM. Congestive headache; SUL. Dull heavy pains in head, with throbbing in the temples; GELS. Bursting, splitting, oppressive headache in forehead, across the eyes, <movement; BRY. Boring pain at root of nose; HEP SULPH. INDIGESTION & FOOD POISONING-Ill effects from decayed food and animal matter; heartburn; ARS ALB. From over indulgence; flatulence, vomiting, constipation; NUX VOM. Flatulent dyspepsia cutting pains in the chest; CARBO VEG. Pain between shoulders; bilious vomiting; BRY. Bilious dyspepsia with great irritability; CHAM. Heartburn, feeling of distension, clothes have to be loosened; PULS. INJURIES AND WOUNDS-Foreign bodies should be carefully removed & the wound may be washed with CAL/HYP LOTION (especially a dirty wound) &then apply HYP CREAM. Cover with a sterile dressing. This will promote quick healing with minimal scarring as well as having a bacteriostatic effect. Internally take LED. INSOMNIA-Sleeplessness, anxious, in aged; ACON. Overactive mind or abuse of coffee; NUX VOM. AMMED FINGERS OR DAMAGED NERVE ENDINGS -HYP and ARN. Morning Sickness – PULS or NUX VOM. PMT & PERIOD PAIN-MAG PHOS. is known as natures own pain killer, esp. crampy pains. PULS for PMT. PUNCTURE WOUNDS, BITES AND STINGS-Give LED and ARN internally, apply HYP CREAM externally. SHOCK-For sudden fear ACON and BACH RESCUE REMEDY. For all traumatic shock, physical or emotional; ARN If there is a tendency to faint with cold sweat, a dusky bluish complexion, and obvious air hunger with a desire to be fanned; especially useful for the elderly; CARBO VEG. The first remedy to be thought of in acute emotional shock, where there are obvious signs of hysteria, muscular twitching and hyper-sensitivity; IGN. SKIN RASHES-When skin is sensitive, irritable and tendency to itching eruptions and burn; SULP. Eczema and acne; HEP SULPH. Hives and allergic reactions, red, hot and swollen; APIS. Measles or Chicken Pox; PULS. SORE THROATS-Dryness and burning, bright red swelling, feeling of constriction, face flushed and hot; BELL. Sore, raw, smarting, burning throat; MERC. Inability to swallow a single drop; APIS. Tonsils are chronically enlarged; CALC PHOS. Difficulty swallowing, burning thirst; ARS ALB. > swallowing food; IGN Clergyman’s sore throat; ARN. Sensation of a splinter in throat; HEP SULPH.
SPRAINS, STRAINS & FRACTURES-ARN, HYP & LEDUM internally. COMFREY cream externally.
STIES AND CONJUNCTIVITIS-Use PUL for sties and conjunctivitis. For chronic cases and a tendency for sties use HEP SULPH.
SUNBURN-Use BURSCAL CREAM and the above remedies.
Sunstroke consider: If feeling dull, stupid, aggravated by sitting up, with anxiety; ACON. Giddy, as if intoxicated on trying to move; GELS.
Intense throbbing pain, red and flushed; BELL.
TEETHING & COLIC-Sensitive, irritable, hot, better when carried; CHAM. Heat, redness, throbbing and burning BELL. At every attempt to eat colicky pain; fever & mucousy while teething CALC PHOS. Cramping of muscles with radiating pains; pain of teething relieved by warmth MAG PHOS.
ULCERS-Externally use CAL/HYP LOTION, weeping ulcers; MERC. Ulceration of mouth and throat; MERC, with dryness and burning; ARS ALB.
VOMITING-Vomiting of food or mucous, nausea, salivation; IPEC. Nausea, vomiting, great prostration & complete muscular relaxation, vomiting of liquids as soon as taken; ANT TART. Red tongue, irritable state of stomach, inability to retain water, gastritis; ARS ALB. Cold water is vomited as soon as it becomes warm in stomach; PHOS. Vomiting, purging and cramps in extremities; post operative shock with cold sweat on forehead, pale face, rapid, feeble pulse; VERAT ALB. Hiccough, with retching day and night; MAG PHOS. Sudden vomiting of milk in infants; MERC.
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CONTENTS OF HOMEOPATHIC FIRST AID KIT
1. ACONITE NAPELLUS (ACON)
2. ALLIUM CEPA (ALL CEPA)
3. ANTIMONIUM TARTRATE (ANT TART.)
4. APIS MELIFICA (APIS)
5. ARNICA MONTANA (ARN)
6. ARSENICUM ALBUM (ARS ALB)
7. BELLADONNA (BELL)
8. BRYONIA (BRY)
9. CALCAREA PHOSPHORICUM (CALC PHOS)
10. CANTHARIS (CANTH)
11. CARBO VEGETABLIS (CARBO VEG)
12. CHAMOMILLA (CHAM)
13. FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM (FERR PHOS)
14. GELSEMIUM (GELS)
15. HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM (HEP SULPH)
16. HYPERICUM (HYP)
17. IGNATIA (IGN)
18. IPECACUANHA (IPEC)
19. KALI MURIATICUM (KALI MUR)
20. KALI SULFURICUM (KALI SULPH)
21. LEDUM PALUSTRE (LED)
22. MAGNESIUM PHOSPHORICA (MAG HOS)
23. MERCURIUS (MERC)
24. NUX VOMICA (NUX VOM)
25. PHOSPHOROUS (PHOS)
26. PULSATILLA (PULS)
27. RUTA GRAVEOLENS (RUTA GRAV)
28. SPONGIA TOSTA (SPONG)
29. SULPHUR (SULPH)
30. VERATRUM ALBUM (VERAT ALB)
31. ANAS BARB (OSCILLO)
32. RESCUE REMEDY – combination of Bach Flower remedies for emergencies/ accidents, to help balance the motions.
33. CALENDULA & HYPERICUM LOTION
34. HYPERICA CREAM (HYP CREAM) Contains: Hypericum & Calendula
35. BURSCAL CREAM (BURN CREAM) Contains: Cal, Canth, Caust, Hyp & Urtica Urens
36. COMFREY CREAM Contains: Comfrey.
APPENDIX TO FIRST AID KIT
COLDS & FLU
13. FERRUM PHOS – Anti-inflammatory
1st stage of infection or inflammation, before exudation. Fever throbbing pains, flushed face, acute onset. The mucous can be clear.
19. KALI MUR – Congestion Remover
2nd stage of infection or inflammation characterised by: swelling, congestion and pain. Thick white, viscid mucous. Clear watery exudate from herpetic vesicles.
20. KALI SULPH – Cell Oxygenator
3rd stage of infection or inflammation. Yellow-green viscid mucopurulent discharges. Nose blocked but water drip from nares.