Transcript HOMEOPATHY IN ACUTE CASES

HOMEOPATHY IN
ACUTE CASES
GEORGE LOUKAS
In homeopathy we have many remedies that we
can use for treatment. In chronic cases we have
enough time to study the case and give the
remedy. In acute cases we have not enough
time. Our action should be fast and effective.
But it is difficult to remember the details of
all the remedies. So we should know some of
them very well. We shall represent you the
basic homeopathic remedies for treating acute
cases and their characteristics.
LIST OF VERY IMPORTANT
HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES
ACONITUM
HEPAR
ANTIMONIUM
TARTARICUM
IGNATIA
ARNICA
ARSENICUM
BELLADONNA
BRYONIA
MERCURIUS
NUX VOMICA
RHUS TOXICODENDRON
LIST OF IMPORTANT
HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES
Apis
Ipecacuana
Cantharis
Ledum
Carbo vegetabilis
Natrum sulfuricum
Chamomilla
Opium
China
Pulsatilla
Colocynthis
Ruta
Gelsemium
Staphisagria
Hypericum
ACONITUM NAPELUS
FEAR: of death; of crowds; of going
out. Fearful.
Anxiety, heat & restlessness; tosses
about in agony; throws off covering.
Complaints from exposure to cold, dry
cold.
Pains neuralgic.
Face very red & flushed, but turns
pale on rising up.
Congestions & inflammations, acute,
first stage with great inflammatory
fever.
Favorite points of attack:
Larynx(croup, bronchi (bronchitis,
lungs & pleura (pneumonia &
pleurisy), joints(rheumatism, heart
& circulation.
Modalities: < in the evening (chest
symptoms & pains); lying on left
side; in warm room or warm covering.
> uncovering; kicks the
clothes off.
ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM
RATTLING OF MUCUS WITH LITTLE
EXPECTORATION is a guiding symptom.
WORSE, in evening; from lying down at night;
from warmth; in damp coldweather; from all
sour things and milk.
BETTER, from sitting erect; from eructation
and expectoration.
ARNICA MONTANA
Bruised, sore feeling all over;
bed feels too hard, he must keep
changing his position to get
relief.
Head, or head & face hot; body &
extremities cold.
Sensitive to touch.Fears being
struck or touched by those coming
towards him.
Ecchymoses; as from bruises.
Recent & remote affections from
injuries, especially contusion
or blows.
Haemorrhages, the result of
mechanical injuries.
ARSENICUM ALBUM
Great anguish & restlessness, driving
from place to place.
Great & sudden prostration.
Intense burning pains
Intense
thirst; drinks
often, but
little, as
cold
water disagrees.
Dyspnoea < on motion, especially
ascending.
Vomiting & stools simultaneous; <after
eating or drinking.
Modalities:< in cold air, from
cold things, cold applications;
& 1 to 3 a.m. Movement.
> by warm air or room & hot
applications; relieved by sweat
BELLADONNA
A nice remedy for inflammatory
disease
present
prominent
head
symptoms, pain, red puffed face,
throbbing carotids & delirium, &
spasms, or jerks & twitching .
Mouth & throat VERY DRY, RED,
sometimes greatly swollen; all mucus
surfaces correspondingly dry & hot.
Pains appear suddenly, & after a while
disappear as suddenly as they came.
Skin very red & hot,burns the hand
touching it, but sweats on covered
parts.
Several
inflammations.
Modalities :< after 3 p.m. or after
midnight from uncovering, or draft of
air, & lying down;
>from covering & head high.
BRYONIA ALBA
All complaints < on motion.
Complaints in hot weather, or exposure
to dry, cold air, in wet weather.
Dryness of mucus membranes generally:
lips, mouth, stomach, wants drink
in large quantities, at long
intervals of time. Dry hard stools as
if burnt.
Constipation (no desire) or diarrhoea,
< morning on beginning to move.
Effusions
meninges,
in serous membranes
pleura, peritoneum, etc.)
STITCHING PAINS , especially in serous
membranes & joints.
Modalities:< from motions,
weather after cold.
warm
>from quiet, lying on painful side.
HEPAR SULFURIS CALCAREUM
Hypersensitive to touch, pain, cold air; fainting
with the pain.
General tendency to suppurations; even slight
injuries or scratches on the skin suppurate.
Tendency to croupy exudations (larynx &
kidneys; any mucus membrane.)
Coughs; croup, bronchitis, consumption; < when
exposed to least cold air.
Atony; stools passed with great difficulty,
even when soft. Urine flows slowly, must
wait for it, then drops vertically down
without force.
Sour diarrhoea; whole child smells sour.
Modalities: < exposure to dry cold air.
> in moist wet weather.
IGNATIA AMARA
Remedy
of paradoxicalities.
Head > lying on painful side, moody,
goneness not> by eating, sore throat <
by swallowing, thirst
during chill, face
red
during chill, etc.
Sad, sighing, changeable, moody disposition.
Twitching or spasms, or convulsions from
exciting or depressing emotions, fright, etc.
All gone, weak, empty sensation in stomach not>
by eating.
Anal troubles ( piles, prolapsus, soreness & pain
after stool, pains shooting up into the
abdomen). Adapted to emotional, hysterical
subjects.
Modalities: < slight touch, smoking, coffee; >
by lying on painful side; hard pressure;
profuse watery urination.
Cough; dry, spasmodic; not > by coughing; the
longer he coughs the more the irritation to
cough increases.
MERCURIUS
Swollen, flabby tongue, taking imprint of the
teeth; gums also swollen, spongy or
bleeding; breath very offensive.
Sweats day and nights without relief in many
complaints.
Creeping chilliness in the beginning of a
cold, or threatened suppuration.
Sliminess of mucous membranes.
Moist tongue, with intense thirst.
Glandular swellings, cold, inclined to
suppurate; ulcers with lardaceous base.
Modalities: < at night in warmth of bed,
while sweating, lying with lardaceous
base.
Bone diseases; pains worse at night.
NUX VOMICA
For fastidious persons, inclined to get
excited or angry, spiteful, malicious
disposition, mental workers or those having
sedentary occupations.
Over sensitiveness, easily offended; very
little noise frightens, cannot bear the least
even suitable medicine; faints easily from
odours, etc.
Twitchings, spasms, convulsions, <slightest
touch.
Chilliness, even during high fever; least
Persons addicted to stimulants,
narcotics, debauches etc.
Frequent and ineffectual desire for stool
or passes little at a time.
< morning, mental exertion, after eating,
touch, spices, stimulants, narcotics, dry
weather, cold.
> from a nap, in evening, while at rest,
in damp, wet weather, strong pressure.
RHUS TOXICODENDRON
Great restlessness, cannot lie long in one
position, changes often with temporary relief,
tosses about continually.
Lameness & stiffness on beginning to move
after rest; on getting up in the morning > by
continued motion.
Erysipelas or scarlatina with vesicular
eruption & characteristic restlessness.
All diseases that put on the typhoid form
with the characteristic, triangular red-tip tongue
& restlessness.
Stupor & mild, persistent delirium;
continually tossing
about, with laborious dreams.
Modalities: < when quietly sitting or lying &
on beginning to move; wet, cold weather;
lifting or straining; getting wet when
perspiring.
> by continued motion, by warmth, dry air
or weather; lying on hard floor (backache).