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Headache and homeopathy Part-6

Symptoms
Intense, crushing, pulsating, throbbing, intolerance of warmth about head.
Suggested Medicine
Glon

Symptoms
Congestion; inability to think; better from leaning head forward; agonizing, as a nail were being driven into brain. [Iris]
With nausea, salivation, profuse vomiting of bile.
Suggested Medicine
Ign

Symptoms
With vertigo; "goneness"; from mental exhaustion.
Suggested Medicine
Kali. phos

Symptoms
Left sided; deep; undulating.
Suggested Medicine
Lach

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Headache and homeopathy Part-5

Symptoms
As if nail were driven into brain; as if brain were torn.
Suggested Medicine
Coff

Symptoms
Bruised pain in brain and eye balls when turning them.
Suggested Medicine
Cuprum

Symptoms
At top and back; periodical; soreness of eye balls.
Suggested Medicine
Eup. per

Symptoms
Throbbing, hammering, congestive.
Suggested Medicine
Ferr

Symptoms
With vertigo, and dimness of vision; as of a band around occiput.
Suggested Medicine
Gels

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Headache and homeopathy Part-4

Symptoms
Severe, as though head were opening and shutting or skull were being lifted.
Suggested Medicine
Cann. ind

Symptoms
From every indiscretion.
Suggested Medicine
Carbo. v

Symptoms
balls; faint at stomach; from overstudy; loss of sleep; in uterine affections.
Suggested Medicine
Cimic

Symptoms
As though skull would burst; as though brain were loose.
Suggested Medicine
China

Symptoms
Confused; with tearing pain in the brain, boring pain at the back of head.
Suggested Medicine
Clematis

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Headache and homeopathy Part-3

Symptoms
Congestive, throbbing; worse from jar, noise, lying down; from having hair cut, from exposure to hot sun.
Suggested Medicine
Bell

Symptoms
Bursting, splitting, sticking; from within outward; occipital or frontal, extending backward into neck; worse from slightest move.
Suggested Medicine
Bry

Symptoms
Congestive, pulsating; as if head were in a vise.
Suggested Medicine
Cactus

Symptoms
Heavy; from within outward; one part at a time; sense of congestion; heat alternating with coldness.
Suggested Medicine
Calc

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Headache and homeopathy Part-2

Symptoms
Neuralgic, left sided, with vertigo; recurring daily.
Suggested Medicine
Arg. met

Symptoms
With creepy sensation in scalp; better from tight bandage.
Suggested Medicine
Arg. nit

Symptoms
Congestive, violent, with mental and sexual excitement.
Suggested Medicine
Aurum

Symptoms
Soreness deep in the brain.
Suggested Medicine
Bapt

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Headache and homeopathy Part-1

Symptoms
Sensitive to light pressure; to lying on head; as though in a vise or tightly bound.
Suggested Medicine
Nit. ac

Symptoms
Catarrhal, frontal, worse in warm room.
Suggested Medicine
All. cepa

Symptoms
Dull, pressing above the eyes.
Suggested Medicine
Aloe

Symptoms
Better, for a short time from eating and lying down; worse from motion.
Suggested Medicine
Anac

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Head related problems/disorders and homeopathy Part-2

Symptoms                  
Everything feels
heavy on head, even hair. 
Suggested Medicine
Carbo. v

Symptoms                  
Sudden violent
shocks in head. 
Suggested Medicine
Cic 
                        
Symptoms
Itching of scalp;
eczema on occiput. 
Suggested Medicine
Clematis

Symptoms                  
Head feels
enormously enlarged. 
Suggested Medicine
Glon

Symptoms
Rolling of head on pillow, from side to side; screaming.
Suggested Medicine
Hell

Symptoms

Rolling of head from side to side; with moaning.
Suggested Medicine
Pod

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Head related problems/disorders and homeopathy Part-1

Symptoms
Sensation as if brain were loose in skull and falling from side to side.
Suggested Medicine
Sul. Ac 30

Symptoms
Burning hot, with fever and anxiety.
Suggested Medicine
Ailan 30

Symptoms
Head hot; body cold.
Suggested Medicine
Arn 30

Symptoms
Rush of blood to head.
Suggested Medicine
Aurum 30

Symptoms
Copious sweat about head, wetting pillow
Suggested Medicine
Calc 30

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Face related problems/disorders and homeopathy Part-7

Symptoms
Tearing, shooting pain, all day, worse at noon.
Suggested Medicine
Spigelia 30

Symptoms
Red, bloated, staring, wild.
Suggested Medicine
Stramonium 200

Symptoms
Flushed when lying down, deathly pale upon rising; hippocratic; of collapse.
Suggested Medicine
Ver. Alb 30-200

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Face related problems/disorders and homeopathy Part-6

Symptoms:
Face blue; pale rings around eyes.
Suggested Medicine
Ipec 30

Symptoms
Face aged; deep furrows on forehead.
Suggested Medicine
Lyc 30

Symptoms
Besotted; face hot.
Suggested Medicine
Opium 30

Symptoms
Neuralgia, tearing, as though flesh were torn off.
Suggested Medicine
Phos 30

Symptoms
Sallow, yellow, cachectic, expressing suffering.
Suggested Medicine
Plum 30

Symptoms
Pale, with sensation of internal heat.
Suggested Medicine
Puls 30

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Face related problems/disorders and homeopathy Part-5

Symptoms
swollen, besotted.
Suggested Medicine
Crot 30

Symptoms
Pale, sallow, fiery red from pain; red spots on cheeks.
Suggested Medicine
Ferr 30

Symptoms
face livid, stupid; sense of contraction in muscles of face.
Suggested Medicine
Gels 30

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Face related problems/disorders and homeopathy Part-4

Symptoms
Sallow, yellow, especially nose and cheeks; neuralgia of face and orbit, cutting, periodical.
Suggested Medicine
Chelidonium 30

Symptoms
Twitching of muscles of face looks sickly; blue circles around eyes.
Suggested Medicine
Cina 30

Symptoms
Hot, with red cheeks.
Suggested Medicine
Coff.

Symptoms
Digging, tearing, pulsating pain left face
Suggested Medicine
Coloc

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Face related problems/disorders and homeopathy Part-3

Here is a short of some possible homeopathic remedies for face related problems/disorders. Select the most appropriate remedy on individualization basis. For details please consult Materia Medica.

Symptoms
Anxious; feeling of cobwebs on face.
Suggested Medicine
Borax 30-200

Symptoms
Cold, pinched, of collapse.
Suggested Medicine
Camphor

Symptoms
Cold, hippocratic.
Suggested Medicine
Carbo Veg 30

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Face related problems/disorders and homeopathy Part-2

Here is a short of some possible homeopathic remedies for face related problems/disorders. Select the most appropriate remedy on individualization basis. For details please consult Materia Medica.

Symptoms
Pale, livid, distorted, twitching.
Suggested Medicine
Atim Tart 30-200

Symptoms
Aged, withered, bluish.
Suggested Medicine
Argent Nit 30-200

Symptoms
Pale, sunken, anxious, cachectic.
Suggested Medicine
Ars Alb 30

Symptoms
Besotted, dirty, cachectic.
Suggested Medicine
Bapt. 30-200

Symptoms
Pale, as though had been very sick.
Suggested Medicine
Bismith 30-200

Asthama and its homeopathic treament

ASTHMA and its Homeopathic Treatment

Compiled by:Dr.Muhammad Asif Nayyer
Aliysha Health Care Centre
Gulshan-e-Iqbal-Karachi-Pakistan.


The word 'asthma' is derived from the Greek meaning ' panting' or 'labored breathing'. Asthma is a condition characterized by a paroxysmal wheezing dyspnoea (difficulty in breathing), mainly expiratory.

Asthma is very common respiratory complaint, so it is essential to know the symptoms. The treatments available, and the ways of preventing an attack. Asthma involves a severe narrowing of the bronchial tubes. These lead from the windpipe-called the trachea-into the lungs and the carry the oxygen we breathe in to all parts of the lungs and provide product a path for the carbon dioxide (a waste product of the body) to escape up the trachea when we breathe out. The narrowing of the bronchial tubes-or bronchi-results from the contraction of the muscle lining them and cause difficulty in breathing that is most marked when breathing out. For this reason, asthmatics tend to breathe in with short gasps and breathe out with a long breathe against the obstruction.

Causes of Asthma

According to the etiology, bronchial asthma is divided in the following groups:

1. Allergic (extrinsic/ atopic) - This type of asthma usually starts in childhood and is often preceded by eczema. But most of the young adults (35 yrs) developing asthma also fall in this category. Genetic factors also play a significant role in this. In this type of asthma the allergen leads to production of excessive (IgE) immunoglobulins.

2. Infective or Intrinsic - This is not hereditary or allergic, but may be caused by, or at least associated with upper respiratory tract or bronchial infection which is usually viral.

3. Psychological factors (like anxiety, emotional stress etc) are often considered to be the sole cause of some asthmatic attacks, but it is still not certain whether it can be the sole cause or is only a precipitating factor.

4. Occupational asthma - This can occur in certain industries in which there is exposure to metallic dusts (esp. platinum salts), biological detergents, toluene diisocyanate, polyurethane, flour and dust from grains etc.

Asthma - MECHANISM - WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS?

What ever may be the cause, it ultimately leads to paroxysms of bronchial obstruction produced by widespread bronchial spasm accentuated by plugging of the bronchi with excessive mucus.
Asthma - SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS

• Recurrent episode of paroxysmal dyspnoea (difficulty in breathing)
• The breathing is laboured, with a wheezing sound, mainly on expiration.
• Asthma attacks often occur in the early hours of morning (when there is no immediate precipitating cause). During the attack patients often prefers to sit then lie down.

Asthma - HOW DIAGNOSIS IS DONE?

Diagnosis can usually be made clinically by a competent doctor. Allergen sensitivity tests, X-ray, spirometry, sputum and blood tests etc may be of use in finding the cause and severity of the condition.

Asthma - WHAT TO DIFFERENTIATE FROM?
• Bronchitis
• Cardiac asthma
• Renal asthma
• Isolated attacks of non-paroxysmal dyspnoea.
Asthma - COMPLICATIONS
• Apart from chronicity, usually no complications.
• Pneumothorax, emphysema, or areas of consolidation or pulmonary collapse may occur in very advanced cases.

HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT CURE & MEDICINE

Homeopathy treats the person as a whole. It means that homeopathic treatment focuses on the patient as a person, as well as his pathological condition. The homeopathic medicines are selected after a full individualizing examination and case-analysis, which includes the medical history of the patient, physical and mental constitution etc.
General Approach - As far as I know homeopathy is the only system of medicine which tries to 'cure' this disease, instead of trying to provide symptomatic relief. While dealing with a case of asthma, a homeopath not only records the symptoms of the disease but also studies the medical history, family history, physical and psychological characteristics of a person. This helps to find the cause, the precipitating factors, and the hereditary tendency etc. Of special interest to a homeopath is the history of suppression of skin disease. Homeopaths believe that when there is a tendency or predisposition for a disease - it first manifests on the less vital organs, towards the periphery (like skin). If this manifestation is suppressed than the disease shifts inwards, towards the more vital organs (like lungs, heart, brain etc).
The fact that in children asthma is often preceded by eczema is observed by the allopath also. This fact is written in all their textbooks of medicine. They say that children often 'move-out' of eczema and 'move-into' asthma. But they are unable to make a correlation. Homeopaths believe that the suppression of eczema with topical preparations, does not cure the disease/sensitivity of the person, it merely drives it inwards.
Now after ascertaining the symptoms and the cause, the homeopath tries to find a medicine which matches the symptoms as well as the general characteristics of the person. The medicine so selected is administered to the patient.
It is often (not necessarily) observed by homeopaths that when a right medicine is given, the asthma disappears but the old eczema (if it was there originally) reappears for some time, before finally disappearing itself. This
Reappearance of old symptoms is seen as a reversal of disease process and is considered a very good prognostic sign by homeopaths.
Following homeopathic medicines have been found effective in many cases of Asthma:

MEDICINES -

There are lots of medicines in homeopathy for asthma and it is not possible to list them all here. Some of the common medicines are Arsenic-Alb, Ipecac, Lachesis, Pulsatilla, spongia, sulphur, Ignatia, Antim-tart, Hepar-sulph, Nat-sulph, and Tuberculinum etc. The selection of medicine varies from patient to patient.
Acalypha indica: Cough with bloody expectoration; sometimes violent dry cough precedes the expectoration.

Ailantheus glandulosa: Deep dry and hacking cough, with asthmatic expansion of lungs; cough with headache and congestion of face.
Aletris farinosa: Short, dry and tickling cough worse on waking and talking; discharge of urine during cough; cough suddenly relieved by menstruation.
Aralia racemosa: Cough associated with constriction of chest, worse lying down, after the first sleep, has to sit up and cough violently; asthma, with oppression as from a weight on stomach, worse night on lying down, better by raising a little tough mucus.
Asarium europaeum: Frequent cough followed by difficult breathing; cough caused by deep inspiration.
Blatta orientalis: Asthma associated with bronchitis, suitable for fatty people, cough associated with dyspnoea.
Blumea odorata: Barking like cough controls hoarseness due to cough.
Boerhavia diffusa: Indicated for dry cough as well as cough with whitish thick expectoration.
Ephedra vulgaris: Mother tincture is used to control asthmatic attack; in reduced doses it is also helpful in pulmonary heart disease.
Glycyrrhiza glabra: Used as expectorant; prevents recurrent respiratory infections.
Grindelia: Tenacious mucous difficult to detach.
Justicia adhatoda: Violent cough with tough expectoration and tightness of chest; great fear of suffocation; usually cough associated with vomiting.
Pothos foetidus: Asthma worse from any inhalation of dust. Rumex crispus: Cough usually with headache; worse eating, in the evening and on lying down

Asthma - Lifestyle & General Management
• Avoid the allergen you are sensitive to.
• Do regular light exercise like brisk walking or jogging. Heavy exercise can precipitate an attack of asthma, so always do mild exercise without putting too much strain on your body.
• Learn breathing exercises to improve your lung capacity. Of especial use is 'pranayam', a yoga exercise.
• Learn some stress relieving exercises, meditation, or yoga to minimize the psychological factors related to disease.
• Eat healthy, nourishing and well balanced diet.
Note: The articles published here are mostly received from different doctors/homeopaths and they are personally responsible for the information provided in the articles. Althoug utmost care is taken before publishing the article, however, the owner of this blog is not responsible for correctness of any information and /or any consequence of using any medicine without consulting the recognized doctor.

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Face related problems/disorders and homeopathy Part-1

Here is a short of some possible homeopathic remedies for face related problems/disorders. Select the most appropriate remedy on individualization basis. For details please consult Materia Medica.

Symptoms
Tingling and numbness in face heat; burning.
Suggested Medicine
Aconite 30-200

Symptoms
Expresses anguish; linea nasalis.
Suggested Medicine
Aethusa 30-200

Symptoms
Covered with livid, purplish rash.
Suggested Medicine
Ailanthus 30-200

Symptoms
Crusts on chin and cheek; yellowish; pimples; cracks at corners of the mouth.
Suggested Medicine
Antim Crud 30-200

ARTHRITIS

ARTHRITIS

Many people are affected by some form of arthritis, which can range from temporary discomfort to a more serious disability, but medical help and physiotherapy can do much to relive the condition.
Arthritis is an inflammation of the joints and its causes are as varied and mysterious as the condition itself. It affect people of all ages and is a common complaint in temperate climates it an be mild or severe, affecting one joint or several; and the different types include rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, rigid spine disease (ankylosing spondylitis) and arthritis that has been brought on by an injury or other infection, Although its study is a well-established specialty, called rheumatology, medical research cannot yet tell us all the answers. The word "arthritis" literally means joint inflammation ("arthr-" means joint; "-its" means inflammation). It refers to more than 100 different diseases. These diseases usually affect the area in or around joints, such as muscles and tendons. Some of these diseases can also affect other parts of the body, including the skin and internal organs. Arthritis usually causes stiffness, pain and fatigue. The most common diseases among arthritis are osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and gout and increasingly, fibromyalgia.
Many types of arthritis show signs of joint inflammation: swelling, stiffness, tenderness, redness or warmth. These joint symptoms may be accompanied by weight loss, fever or weakness.
When these symptoms last for more than two weeks, inflammatory arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis may be the cause. Joint inflammation may also be caused by infection, which can lead to septic arthritis. Degenerative joint disease (osteoarthritis) is the most common type of arthritis; joint inflammation is not a prominent feature of this condition.

RHEUMATIOD ARTHRITIS IN ADULTS

Although it is common, the cause of rheumatoid arthritis is unknown. It is thought that it may be due to an “autoimmune” Phenomenon-that is, some event, perhaps a severe illness or a shock, triggering a chain of chemical reactions within the body, eventually producing chemicals which react against the lining tissue of the joints-the synovium. Inflammation and arthritis will follow. Rheumatoid arthritis usually affects adults between the ages of 20 and 55, and women are three times more liable to it than men. Inflammation of the knuckles of both hands is the usual symptom, and the joints of the toes are affected in a similar way. At the same time, the sufferer may lose weight, feel generally unwell and become unusually lethargic. The symptoms may be either acute, starting with a fever or rash, or happen gradually over several weak. The joints most often affected are the knees, hips, shoulders, wrists, elbows, ankles and the bones of the neck. The stiffness is usually at its worst in the morning, and in acute cases the sufferer may be confined to bed or have great difficulty moving.
In about one quarter of cases attacks will last about six months, but only happen every few years. Some cases are persistent, varying in severity, but tending to “burn out” after many years.

IN CHILDREN

Rheumatoid arthritis can occur in children a condition called still’s disease-but it is fortunately rare. Two main age groups are affected-between one and three and 10 and 15. The inflammation starts gradually, and in about one, commonly the knee. It can also affect the hands, wrists, feet and ankles.
This disease is slowly progressive, but burns itself out in late adolescence and how quickly treatment is begun. Therapy should be started as soon as possible to prevent permanent stiffening and joint deformity.

OSTEOARTHRITIS

Osteoarthritis occurs as part of the ageing process. It happens mainly to weight bearing joints; hips, knees and spine. In women the hands are also often affected, particularly the top joints of the fingers and the base of the thumb. This condition is caused by degeneration of the cartilage, a tough, elastic tissue which protects the surface of the joint, this is normally.

Glistening and smooth, but osteoarthritis causes it to roughen and the cartilage becomes “dry”. This change has two effects; it compresses the underlying bone surface that the cartilage should protect and inflames the synovium (the lining) lying over it, The first symptoms are pain and loss of use; stiffness and swelling follow, and the joint eventually changes shapes. There may be only one joint involved, such as the right hip in the right-handed person (because right-hand-deadness means that the right side of the body is more active and bears more weight than the left), or, in many cases, the knees, spine, shoulders, hands and neck are affected. This condition rarely happens unless the arthritis in a weight-bearing joint is severe. Unfortunately, any injury will cause the condition to flare up.

RIGID SPINE DISEASE

Ankylosing spondylitis is a form of arthritis which affects the pelvic joint and spine. This too, is thought to be an autoimmune illness. Like rheumatoid arthritis, but there is a definite tendency for it to run in families. It is more common in men, usually starting between the ages of 15 and 30. The inflammation causes calcium to be deposited in the ligaments (fibrous bands which connect joints). This results in stiffness which can lead to the spinal bones (the vertebrae) being fused together if the inflammation is not alleviated by both medical treatment and exercise hence its colloquial name “Poker back; often spreading to the whole spine and involving the hip joints, before gradually petering out.

OTHER CAUSES OF ARTHRITIS

An injury can also trigger arthritis-this is called “traumatic” arthritis. The injury can either by direct, for example from a blow to a joint, or indirect, as when you hurt your knee by falling heavily on it, traumatic arthritis usually happens to men, although on is completely immune.
The knee, ankle or wrists are the joints most commonly affected. A few hours after the injury, the joint becomes inflamed, painful and swellon. An x-ray is needed, in case a fracture has occurred.

DIAGNOSIS

If you suspect that you have some form of arthritis the worst thing you can do is to “just put up with it” Do not try to make the diagnosis yourself, but.

Go and see your homeopath doctor. A delay might mean the risk of permanent deformity, especially in the case of a child with still’s disease, a condition which needs treatment, care and early physiotherapy. Your doctor will ask for a history of your illness and give an examination and medicine treatment.


HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT CURE & MEDICINE

Colchicum:
This is the great old school remedy for gout; every case gets it in some form; and, strange to say, in the homoeopathic school it is one of the first remedies thought of, but not every case of arthritic trouble receives Colchicum from the careful homoeopathic prescriber. The typical case calling for Colchicum is where the swelling is red or pale, with extreme tenderness to touch, a tendency to shift about from joint to joint, and pains which are worse on the slightest motion. If the general symptoms of great prostration of the muscular system and abdominal bloating be present Colchicum is the remedy. Gastric symptoms and cardiac complications also characterize. It is more indicated when the smaller joints, fingers, toes, wrists and ankles are affected; the pains are very violent, patient cannot bear to have the parts touched or to have anyone come near him. Arnica has this fear that the part my be hit by anyone passing; it has also arthritic pains in the foot, worse towards evening; and a red big toe joint which feels as though it has been sprained, so Arnica may be indicated well in gout. The Colchicum patient is apt to be exceedingly irritable and the gout is not apt to decrease this irritability. Unless Colchicum is given according to these indications it will do no permanent good. The habit of giving Colchicum to every case of gout in order to palliate the trouble may cause it to attack the heart or fly to other parts. Indeed in potency it is Homoeopathic to gout, with metastasis to the heart. Aconite is most useful in acute attacks of gout in the joints of the feet. It corresponds only to the onset and if continued for a day or two will cure many cases.
Ledum:
Ledum is a useful remedy in gout as well as in many articular troubles. We have the symptoms that the ball of the great toe is swollen, sore and painful on stepping, drawing pains worse from warmth, pressure and from motion. It has also gouty nodosities in the joints, it differs from
Bryonia:
In having a scanty instead of a profuse effusion; it is, perhaps, better adapted to hot swelling of the hip joint than is Bryonia. All the pains of Ledum travel upwards. Ledum is also useful after abuse of Colchicum. It may be the first remedy to use when the patient comes from allopathic hands, having been dosed with large doses of Colchicum, which is a very asthenic remedy, producing great muscular weakness, as we have seen. Ledum, it must be remembered is a cold remedy, and attending all the symptoms is a general chilliness and lack of animal heat. Another drug having gouty nodosities in the joints is Guaiacum. This remedy has tearing pains in the extremities and contractions; of the muscles. It is also especially useful for gouty inflammation affecting the knee joint.
Ammonium phosphoricum:
This is a useful remedy in constitutional gout where there are nodosities in the joints. It is not so much a remedy for the acute symptoms, but for chronic cases where there are deposits of urate of soda concretions in the joints and the hands become twisted out of shape. Antimonium crudum has gouty nodes in the joints, but it is easily selected from its gastric symptoms. Urinary symptoms, strong urine, etc., would suggest Benzoic acid, and much red Lycopodium, both; of which may be found useful in gout. Staphisagria has a similar application to gout when it becomes systematized, as has also Ammonium phosphoricum. Rhododendron has enlargements of the joints not due to gouty deposits, worse during rest and on approach of a storm. Urtica urens. This remedy is said to cure more cases of gout than any other. Under its use pain and swelling subside and large quantities of sand are passed. Picric acid. Halbert mentions this remedy as useful in arthritis deformans, and thinks that treating the disease from the homoeopathic standpoint will yield best results.
Rhododendron chrysanthum: Rhododendron has enlargements of the joints not due to gouty deposits, worse during rest and on approach of a storm.

Urtica urens:
This remedy is said to cure more cases of gout than any other. Under its use pain and swelling subside and large quantities of sand are passed.
Picricum acidum: Halbert mentions this remedy as useful in arthritis deformans, and thinks that treating the disease from the homoeopathic standpoint will yield best results.
Twelve tissue homeopathic remedies for arthritis
Ferrum phosphoricum: At the commencement this remedy should be given in repeated doses when there are febrile symptoms present, and later on in the disease it may be given as an intercurrent. The joints are painful on moving; motion sets up and increases the pain. Tenalgia crepitans.
Kalium muriaticum:
In acute arthritis, for the swelling or when the tongue is coated white. It may be alternated with Ferrum phos. Movement aggravates the pains. It is useful especially after Ferrum phos. Natrium muriaticum chronic arthritis, joints crack (if tongue and other symptoms correspond, acts probably by increasing the eliminations of the urate of sodium). Synovitis, gout, sore hamstrings (verified).
Natrium muriaticum:
Acute gout (after Ferr. phos.) Chronic gout, profuse, sour-smelling sweat. Rheumatic arthritis, especially of finger joints. Urine dark red. Pains go suddenly to heart; sore hamstrings. It seems to have also a marked effect in hot painful swellings of the knee joint.
Magnesium phosphoricum: Useful as an intercurrent remedy for the pains (violent). The keynote is excruciating pains, spasmodic in character.
Kalium sulphuricum: In rheumatic arthritis where the pains shift from one joint to another, aggravated by heat. Shifting and wandering rheumatic pains in the joints. Fungoid arthritis. Tumor albus, white swelling.
Silicea terra: Suppuration of the joints.
Calcarea sulphurica: Suppurative process in the joints.

Natrium sulphuricum:
In acute cases (attacks) of gout. This remedy should be alternated with Ferrum phos. In chronic gout it alone suffices. Gout in the feet, acute and chronic. Rheumatic arthritis, especially in joints of fingers, pains suddenly go to heart, urine dark-red.
Calcarea phosphorica: Rheumatic gout worse at night and in bad weather. Hygroma patellae. Hydrops genu.
Calcarea fluorica:
Gouty enlargements of the finger-joints.

Rhus toxicodendron:
From the earliest homoeopathic times Rhus has been the great rheumatic remedy of the school, comparing only with Bryonia; and the difference between these remedies must be repeated once more.
Rhus:
Restlessness and desire to move about continually, on account of the relief it to the aches and pains.
Bryonia:
Disposition to keep perfectly still, since moving causes an aggravation of of all aches and yet sometimes pains force patient to move.
Rhus: Suitable especially to rheumatism affecting fibrous tissues, sheaths of muscles etc., Rheumatism from exposure to wet when overheated and Perspiring.
Bryonia: Suitable to rheumatism of the joints and of muscular tissues itself. This is not especially the case with Bryonia, though a Bryonia rheumatism From these causes.

All Rhus rheumatic symptoms are relieved by motion. They are worse from sitting and worse from rising from a sitting position, or on first commencing to move; continued motion, however, relieves. Warmth also relieves the
Rhus rheumatism: Damp weather and the approach of storms aggravate. Cold also aggravates. Rhododendron is similar, in that change of weather aggravates. The character of the Rhus pains is first a stiffness and soreness. There are also tearing pains, drawing, paralyzed sensations and even stitches. The sudden pain in the back known as "crick" is met well with Rhus. Rhus has an especial affinity for the deep muscles of the back. It is perhaps the most often indicated of any remedy in lumbago. It is also, it may be mentioned in passing, a remedy for the effects of overexertion such as sprains, wrenches, etc., being to fibrous tissues what Arnica is to the softer structures. The rheumatism keeling for Rhus may appear in any part; of the body; the lower extremities seem to have suffered most in the provers. The great keynotes of Rhus are the following: 1. Relief from continued motion; the lumbago, however, being sometimes worse from motion. 2. The stiffness and soreness. 3. The aggravation when first beginning to move.4. The aggravation from damp weather and cold. Cold air is not tolerated; it seems to make the skin painful. 5. The relief of all the symptoms by warmth. Rhus will not cure every case of rheumatism, but it will cure a good many.
Bryonia:
The rheumatism of Bryonia attacks the joints themselves, producing articular rheumatism, and it also inflames the muscle tissue, causing muscular rheumatism. The muscles are sores and swollen, and the joints are violently inflamed, red, swollen, shiny and very hot. The pains are sharp, stitching or cutting in character, and the great feature of the drug should always be present, namely the aggravation from the slightest motion. Touch and pressure also aggravate. There is but little tendency for the rheumatism of Bryonia to shift about like that of Pulsatilla or Kalmia. It is not liable to be mistaken for any other remedy. Ledum has some points of similarity. It would come in articular rheumatism, where there is a scanty effusion, while Bryonia tends to copious exudation. Bryonia seems to suit well the acid condition of the blood, which gives rise to rheumatism; it has a sour sweat; also, Kali carbonicum has stitching pains, but absence of fever.
Will distinguish it from Bryonia. Bryonia, Ledum, Nux and Colchicum are the four chief remedies having aggravation from motion. General constitutional symptoms will most likely be present in cases calling for Bryonia. Excessive tenderness of the soles of the feet in rheumatism may suggest antimonium crudum.
Causticum: This remedy resembles Rhus quite closely in many respects. The following are some of the differences:
Causticum:
The restlessness of this remedy occurs only at night. Rheumatism caused by dry, cold frosty air. Pains impel constant motion, which does not relieve.
Rhus:
Restlessness all the time. Rheumatism from damp wet weather. Motion relieves the patient temporarily.
The symptoms calling for Causticum are a stiffness of the joints. The tendons seem shortened and the limbs are drawn out of shape. It is a sort; of rheumatoid arthritis. As with Rhus, there is relief from warmth. There are drawing muscular pains sand soreness of the parts of which the patient lies. It has been found useful in rheumatism about the articulations of the jaw. Rhus has a cracking of the lower jaw when chewing. Colocynth has stiffness about the joints and is also a useful remedy in articular rheumatism. Causticum, like Guaiacum and Ledum, has gouty concretions in the joints. There is much weakness and trembling with Causticum, as with all the preparations of potash, and it is; of little use in arthritic troubles if fever be present. Weakness of the ankle-joint, contracted tendons and a sprained feeling in the hip-joints are some of its important symptoms.
Ledum: Ledum is one of our best remedies for rheumatism ands gout, especially the latter. The great symptom which has always been regarded as the distinctive characteristic is the direction the pains take, namely, going from below upwards. Like Caulophyllum and some others, Ledum seems to haves a predilection for the smaller joints. Nodes form in them and the pains travel up the limbs. The pains are made worse from the warmth of the bed. The effusion into the joints is scanty and it soon hardens and forms the nodosities above mentioned. Ledum, like Colchicum, causes acute, tearing pains in the joints; weakness of the limbs and numbness and coldness of the
Surface. Kalmia also has pains which travel upwards, but the character of the pains will distinguish. It may also be mentioned that Ledum is an excellent remedy in erythema nodosum, which is of rheumatic origin. Ledum produces and cures in certain cases an obstinate swelling of the feet. Wine aggravates all the symptoms of this drug. The characteristics of
Ledum may be thus summed up: 1. upward extension of the pains 2. Tendency to the formation of nodes in the small joints. 3. Aggravation; by
The warmth; of the bed. 4. Aggravation by motion. It is useful, too, after the abuse of Colchicum in large doses.

Pulsatilla:
Pulsatilla is usually brought prominently to mind when there is a tendency for the rheumatism to shift about, wandering rheumatic pains being one of its red strings. But other remedies have this symptom also, prominent among them being Kalmia, Bryonia, Colchicum, Sulphur, Kali Bichromicum and that member of the tissue family most resembling Pulsatilla, namely, Kali sulphuricum. There is little trouble in distinguishing Pulsatilla from any or all of these remedies by its general symptoms. Kali sulphuricum, however, will give the most trouble, but it is not a well-proven remedy and need only be thought of to try when Pulsatilla seems the remedy yet fails. Other characteristics of the Pulsatilla rheumatism are the aggravation from warmth, aggravation in the evening, and the relief from cold. The knee, ankle and tarsal joints are the most usual seat of the trouble when Pulsatilla is indicated. There is, too restlessness with the remedy, the pains are so severe that the patient is compelled to moves, and slow, easy motion relieves, as also with Lycopodium and Ferrum. A prominent use for Pulsatilla is in gonorrhoeal rheumatism. The joints are swollen and the pains are sharp and stinging, with a feeling of subcutaneous ulceration. Kali Bichromicum is also a remedy for gonorrhoeal rheumatism, as well as for wandering rheumatic pains; it has relief in a warm room, which at once distinguishes it from Pulsatilla. Thuja is another remedy for gonorrhoeal rheumatism. Rheumatism dependent on disturbance of the liver or stomach is apt to find its

Dr Muhammad Asif Nayyar
Gulshan e Iqbal
Karachi
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