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Stomach disorder/Stomach related problems and homeopathy Part-5
Symptoms
Gastric indigestion, with drum like distension of abdomen.
Suggested Medicine
Colch

Symptoms
Weight, faintness, sinking, can retain nothing; vomiting of bile; sticking pain, with pressure and intolerance of anything tight.
Suggested Medicine
Crot

Symptoms
Foulness; excessive nausea, not better from vomiting; eructations of sour fluid, setting teeth on edge.
Suggested Medicine
Dig

Symptoms
Gastralgia, with heavy pressure in stomach and vomiting of food right after eating.
Suggested Medicine
Ferr

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Stomach disorder/Stomach related problems and homeopathy Part-4


Symptoms
Burning in stomach with burning thirst; retching, vomiting of blood stained mucus.
Suggested Medicine
Canth

Symptoms
Burning in stomach extending to back and spine; contractive pain in stomach; extending into chest, with abdominal distension; sour, rancid eructations, putrid changes in the food before digesting.
Suggested Medicine
Carbo. v

Symptoms
Gastralgia, with bitter, sour vomiting.
Suggested Medicine
Cham

Symptoms
Pain from stomach to right shoulder blade, worse from eating.
Suggested Medicine
Chel

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Some useful clinical tips

-Do not forget to try Nux Vomica, Carbo Veg. and Pulsatilla while treating dyspepsia.

-The combination of Silicea-10M + Hepar Sulph-200 are very effective in suppurated injuries/wounds, abscesses and boils. However, Calcarea Sulph-200 and Myristica-200 are also of great value.

- 3-4 doses of Petroleum-1M are sufficient enough to cure the bleeding cracks of heels.

- In sexual debility, Sulphur-200 should be given due consideration alongwith other indicated remedies.

- In fainting attacks, Nux Moschata and Moschus have been found very useful.

- Rheumatic pains of small joints/wrists have often been cured with Actea Spicata-30 and Caulophyllum-30.

- Remember a dose Pyrogenium-200 while starting the treatment of fever.

Contributed by:
Homoeo Dr. Sultan Mahmood,
Hill View Avenue,
Rawalpindi

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Stomach disorder/Stomach related problems and homeopathy Part-3

Symptoms
Flatulency; feels that eructations would relieve, but can't belch.
Suggested Medicine
Asaf

Symptoms
Pain in one spot; pressing, convulsive, agonizing; from stomach to spine; with vomiting and purging; emptiness in stomach; eructations of gas after drinking.
Suggested Medicine
Bis

Symptoms
Pressure as from a hard stone; soreness in stomach when coughing.
Suggested Medicine
Bry

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Stomach disorder /Stomach related problems and homeopathy Part-2

Symptoms
Pain confined to small spot between xyphoid cartilage and navel, radiating; excessive flatulency; seems stomach would burst; noisy and difficult belching; pain better from pressure of clinched fist.
Suggested Medicine
Arg. nit

Symptoms
Pressure as from a stone.
Suggested Medicine
Arn

Symptoms
Bitter, sour eructations, exceedingly irritating, burning pain.
Suggested Medicine
Ars

Cardiomyopathy and Homoeopathy

Cardiomyopathy and Homoeopathy

Mr. Atiq-ur-Rahman Qureshi, a mechanical engineer by profession visited me with severe Chest pain, palpitation and Dyspnea (Shortness of breath) in July, 2009. On enquiring, he told that the pain did not travel to the left arm and also there was no sweating. The pain was intensified especially after taking meals and on movement. I administered Bryonia-200 and Arsenicum alb. -30 to be taken alternately 4 times a day. After 3-4 days, he reported a little bit relief but was not satisfied at all. Resultantly, he moved to some allopath physician who asked him to go for ultrasound and ETT. The ultrasound report from AFIC, Rawalpindi diagnosed Cardiomyopathy (Heart muscle disease) whereas during ETT, the total recorded exercise time was 05:35 minutes. On the abovesaid findings, Mr. Atiq was advised by the Allopath physician to take one tablet each of Loprin and Tenormin daily. Unfortunately, these medicines could not bring relief to the ailing engineer. Hopelessly, he again contacted me in September, 2009 with all the reports and requested for re-taking the case with full symptoms. As his Hajj flight was approaching near, he was anxious for his early recovery so as to perform the rituals of Hajj in a proper manner. During taking the symptoms, I doubt that it was the oesphagus that was causing pain during and after meals. I gave him 2 doses of Phosphorus-1M to be taken on alternate days which gave him a considerable relief in pain. Then Spigelia-3X and Strophanthus-3X + Crataegus-Q were given for one week. The problems of palpitation and dyspnea were improved. Next, 2 more doses of Phosphorus-1M were administered for complete recovery of the chest pain before his departure to Saudi Arabia for Hajj. On his return from Hajj, he reported that there was no problem except the usual complaint of throat irritation and cough, etc. Presently, he is on 10 drops of Strophanthus-3X + Crataegus-Q twice a day and Al-Hamdulilla feeling much better.

Contributed by:
H/Dr. Sultan Mahmood
HillView Avenue,
Rawalpindi

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Stomach disorder/Stomach related problems and homeopathy Part-1


Symptoms
Excruciating pain, with vomiting, coldness between stomach and navel.
Suggested Medicine
Ox. ac
Symptoms
Constant belching of gas.
Suggested Medicine
Ant. crud
Symptoms
Irritability, nausea, faintness, oppression, interfering with breathing.
Suggested Medicine
Apoc

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Homeopathy for Tongue related problems- Part 5

From olden days, the world of medicine has treated tongue as a diagnostic tool (traditionally as well as scientifically) to know the body’s health status.The tongue is a flexible muscular organ of the mouth. It is meant for tasting, moisturising, licking, kissing, mastication of food, swallowing and, in humans, speech.It is sometimes called the mirror of the stomach.

Here is a short list of tongue related disorders and respective homeopathic treatment.

Symptoms
Flabby, showing imprint of teeth; coated thickly; red at tip and edges; yellow at base.
Suggested Medicine
Merc. iod. flav

Symptoms
Burning, tingling, mapped; as though a hair were on it.
Suggested Medicine
Nat. mur

Symptoms
Dry, blackish, paralyzed.
Suggested Medicine
Opium

Symptoms
Red stripe through the center.
Suggested Medicine
Phos

Symptoms
White.
Suggested Medicine
Puls

Symptoms
Red and dry at edges; red triangular space at tip, cracked.
Suggested Medicine
Rhus

Symptoms
Foul, but clear during menses.
Suggested Medicine
Sep

Symptoms
Sensation of a hair on tongue.
Suggested Medicine
Sil

Symptoms
Smooth, glassy; papillae do not show.
Suggested Medicine
Tereb

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Homeopathy for Tongue related problems- Part 4

From olden days, the world of medicine has treated tongue as a diagnostic tool (traditionally as well as scientifically) to know the body’s health status.The tongue is a flexible muscular organ of the mouth. It is meant for tasting, moisturising, licking, kissing, mastication of food, swallowing and, in humans, speech.It is sometimes called the mirror of the stomach.

Here is a short list of tongue related disorders and respective homeopathic treatment.

Symptoms
Dry, feels scalded.
Mapped, broad, indented; red, smooth, slimy.
Suggested Medicine
Kali. bich

Symptoms
Dry, cracked, blistered at tip; trembling when protruded; catches behind teeth.
Suggested Medicine
Lach

Symptoms
Yellow.
Suggested Medicine
Lept

Symptoms
Ulcers under tongue, near phraenum.
Suggested Medicine
Lyc

Symptoms
Dirty white, yellowish; flabby, showing indentations of teeth.
Suggested Medicine
Merc

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Homeopathy for Tongue related problems- Part 3

From olden days, the world of medicine has treated tongue as a diagnostic tool (traditionally as well as scientifically) to know the body’s health status.The tongue is a flexible muscular organ of the mouth. It is meant for tasting, moisturising, licking, kissing, mastication of food, swallowing and, in humans, speech.It is sometimes called the mirror of the stomach.

Here is a short list of tongue related disorders and respective homeopathic treatment.

Symptoms
Yellow, bilious.
Suggested Medicine
Eup. per

Symptoms
Paralytic condition of tongue.
Suggested Medicine
Gels

Symptoms
Large, slimy, showing imprint of teeth.
Suggested Medicine
Hydras

Symptoms
Dry, red, cracked, protruded with difficulty.
Suggested Medicine
Hyos

Symptoms
Clean, even with nausea and vomiting.
Suggested Medicine
Ipec

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Homeopathy for Tongue related problems- Part 2

From olden days, the world of medicine has treated tongue as a diagnostic tool (traditionally as well as scientifically) to know the body’s health status.The tongue is a flexible muscular organ of the mouth. It is meant for tasting, moisturising, licking, kissing, mastication of food, swallowing and, in humans, speech.It is sometimes called the mirror of the stomach.

Here is a short list of tongue related disorders and respective homeopathic treatment.

Symptoms
Yellowish brown; center dry; edges red; cracked, sore.
Suggested Medicine
Bapt

Symptoms
Red; white, with red edges; strawberry tongue.
Suggested Medicine
Belladona

Symptoms
Heavily coated white; yellowish; dark brown and dry.
Suggested Medicine
Bryonia

Symptoms
Yellow; flabby, large, with imprint of teeth.
Suggested Medicine
Chelidonium

Symptoms
Dry, cracked, brown in center, bright red on edges.
Suggested Medicine
Croton

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Homeopathy for Tongue related problems- Part 1

From olden days, the world of medicine has treated tongue as a diagnostic tool (traditionally as well as scientifically) to know the body’s health status.The tongue is a flexible muscular organ of the mouth. It is meant for tasting, moisturising, licking, kissing, mastication of food, swallowing and, in humans, speech.It is sometimes called the mirror of the stomach.

Here is a short list of tongue related disorders and respective homeopathic treatment.

Symptoms
Dry as leather; paralyzed.
Suggested Medicine
Mur. ac

Symptoms
Dry, parched, cracked.
Suggested Medicine
Ailan

Symptoms
White, as though covered with milk or whitewash.
Suggested Medicine
Ant. crud

Symptoms
Coated thinly white with red papillae; in streaks; dry in center.
Suggested Medicine
Ant. tart

Symptoms
Raw, sore, scalded; red and hot at tip.
Suggested Medicine
Apis

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Homeopathy for Lips problems

Symptoms
Sore, excoriated.
Suggested Medicine
Arum

Symptoms
Whitish, moist scurf on upper lip
Suggested Medicine
Cicuta ver

Symptoms
Lops and throat dry, without thirst
Suggested Medicine
Crotin tig

Symptoms
Cold sores on lips
Suggested Medicine
Dulcamara

Symptoms
Fever blisters like pearls on lips
Suggested Medicine
Nat. mur

Miraculous efficacy of Homeopathic Medicines

Miraculous efficacy of Homeopathic Medicines
A case by Dr Sultan Mahmood

He was depressed and pessimistic about the recovery of his 14 years old son who was suffering from epileptic convulsions for the last 10 years. During this long period many laboratory tests were carried out on the instructions of the reputed allopath physicians of Rawalpindi/Islamabad followed by different heavy courses of medicines like Epival, Phenobarbiton, Lerace, Trioptal, Citolin, and Lomogin etc. but all proved fruitless. Even a homeopath of Rawalpindi having a good practice was also contacted from whom this innocent beautiful chap receive the treatment for about 2 years but again the father was utterly frustrated. Surprisingly, the father being a good friend of mine never asked me to examine the case of his beloved son. Last month, we were having a chat over a cup of tea when I asked him in a casual way about the health progress of his son. He told in a disappointed tone that despite taking the above medicines on regular basis, fits have not been controlled as yet. After taking the whole history, I recommended Cuprum Met-30, Stramonium-30, Cicuta Virosa-30 and Sulphur-200 (as inter-current remedy) for about 2 months parallel with the allopath medicines being taken for the last 10 years. During the homeopathic alongwith allopathic treatment, the fits were considerably controlled. The allopath medicines were then gradually reduced and no fit of severe intensity was recorded. Presently, Cuprum Met-6 twice a day with one dose of allopath medicine Trioptal daily is being given and no complaint has been recorded for the last one month. Hopefully, the allopath medicine shall Insha Allah be withdrawn completely within the next 2-3 weeks.

Contributed by:
Homoeo Dr. Sultan Mahmood,
Hillview Avenue, Rawalpindi

Menstrual problems in women

Menstrual problems in women

There are certain menstrual problems faced by women. These includes following:

Dysmenorrhea

Painful menstruation affects affects up to 50% of menstruating women and for some ten percent the discomfort is extreme. Doctors call painful menses dysmenorrhea and there are two types: Primary dysmenorrhea means there is no obvious pelvic pathology and Secondary dysmenorrhea means there is pelvic pathology such as endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease and others.

Amenorrhea

Amenorrhea means the absence of the menstrual period. Apart from during childhood, pregnancy, breastfeeding or menopause, the absence of the menstrual period may indicate a problem with the reproductive system. One of the most common causes of amenorrhea is hormonal disturbance. The interplay of female sex hormones can be disrupted by a wide range of events, including diseases of the reproductive organs, weight loss, emotional stress or overexercising. Frequently, there is no worrying cause found.

Profuse and premature menstruation

Top Homeopathic medicines for Menstrual problems

Aletris Farinosa
Ashoka Janosia
Cimicifuga
Gossypium
Helonias
Xanthoxylum
Pulsatilla
Calcarea carbonic
Ferrum metallicum
Sepia
Graphites.

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Homeopathy for Gums problems

Symptoms
Spongy; bleed easily
Suggested Medicine
Nitricum acid

Symptoms
Spongy; bleed easily
Suggested Medicine
Antim crud

Symptoms
Tender and ulcerated
Suggested Medicine
Aurum

Symptoms
Spongy, with rapidly decaying teeth
Suggested Medicine
Creosot

Symptoms
Spongy; bleeding; receding
Suggested Medicine
Kali. phos

Symptoms
Spongy; bleed easily; receding
Suggested Medicine
Merc

Symptoms
Bleed easily; receding
Suggested Medicine
Phos

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Here is a list of well known homeopathic medicine for breast enlargement and tightening.

Calc. Phos
Calc. Flour
Conium Q
Chimaphila umb Q
Sabal Ser Q
Jodium
Onosmodium

These are miracle medicines popular all over world for breast enlargement and tightening in females.

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Delirium and its Homeopathic medicines Part-2

Delirium is sudden severe confusion and rapid changes in brain function that occur with physical or mental illness.
Delirium is most often caused by physical or mental illness and is usually temporary and reversible. Many disorders cause delirium, including conditions that deprive the brain of oxygen or other substances.

Symptoms
Talking; face hot, red, puffed; hot sweat.
Suggested Medicine
Opium

Symptoms
Thinks somebody is lying near him in bed.
Suggested Medicine
Petr

Symptoms
Loquacious, changing topics constantly; merry; lewd; with terrifying hallucinations. Complains of darkness of room; wants light.
Suggested Medicine
Stram

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Delirium

Delirium and its Homeopathic medicines Part-1

Delirium is sudden severe confusion and rapid changes in brain function that occur with physical or mental illness.
Delirium is most often caused by physical or mental illness and is usually temporary and reversible. Many disorders cause delirium, including conditions that deprive the brain of oxygen or other substances.
Causes include:
• Drug abuse
• Infections such as urinary tract infections or pneumonia (in people who already have brain damage from stroke or dementia)
• Poisons
• Fluid/electrolyte or acid/base disturbances
Patients with more severe brain injuries are more likely to get delirium from another illness.

Symptoms
Quiet, with stupor; can be roused, but relapses.
Suggested Medicine
Phos. ac

Symptoms
Muttering.
Suggested Medicine
Ailan

Symptoms
Wandering, muttering; trying to gather the scattered parts of the body.
Suggested Medicine
Bapt

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Homeopathic medicines for vertigo Part-2

Symptoms
Vertigo on looking up; with vanishing of vision.
Suggested Medicine
Cuprum

Symptoms
Vertigo on closing eyes, going down stairs, walking over water.
Suggested Medicine
Ferrum Phos

Symptoms
Vertigo from slight motion; feels as though falling from a height.
Suggested Medicine
Mosch

Symptoms
Tendency to fall toward the left; as though he would fall headlong; or would have apoplexy.
Suggested Medicine
Zinc

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Homeopathic medicines for vertigo Part-1

Symptoms
Inclination to fall backward or to the left.
Suggested Medicine
Belladona 30-200

Symptoms
Inclination to fall forward.
Suggested Medicine
Chelidonium

Symptoms
Feels as if would fall forward when quickly turning head to the left.
Suggested Medicine
Coloc

Symptoms
Vertigo when turning over in bed; when lying down; on turning to the left; from excessive use of tobacco. Everything whirls around him, obliging him to keep perfectly quiet.
Suggested Medicine
Con

Symptoms
Vertigo on looking up; with vanishing of vision.
Suggested Medicine
Cuprum

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Headache and homeopathy Part-9

Symptoms
Pressing, in right temple, into eye; worse from jar, noise in the back.
Suggested Medicine
Spig

Symptoms
Periodical; with heat on top of head.
Suggested Medicine
Sul

Symptoms
Aching in nape of neck; anaemia; neurasthenia.
Suggested Medicine
Zinc

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Headache and homeopathy Part-8

Symptoms
Dull, heavy, frontal, over eyes, in occiput; feels distended and sore deep in; dizziness; as if pressure upon hard substance would relieve.
Suggested Medicine
Nux. vom 30-200

Symptoms
Headache into vertex, with stiff neck; better from rapid motion of head; with vertigo and nausea.
Suggested Medicine
Petroleum 30-200

Symptoms
In shocks; superficial; with heat and fulness; buzzing in ears.
Suggested Medicine
Phosphorus 30

Symptoms
As if ball were rising from throat into brain.
Suggested Medicine
Plumbum 30

Symptoms
Periodical, occipital, over right eye, with shivering and nausea; with flushes of heat; congestive, redness of cheeks, vertigo; with dizziness, passing nausea, uneasiness in bowels and stool, followed by relief.
Suggested Medicine
Sang 30

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Headache and homeopathy Part-7

Symptoms
Wild, crazy feeling in the head.
Suggested Medicine
Lilium

Symptoms
With deathly nausea, vomiting and great prostration.
Suggested Medicine
Lobel

Symptoms
Semi lateral, in temple; bursting; aching in nape of the neck;
Suggested Medicine
Merc

Symptoms
As though little hammers were knocking upon the brain; from sunrise to sunset; left side; bursting; with nausea and vomiting; headache of anaemia; headache of school girls.
Suggested Medicine
Nat. mur

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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
Email: nayyer.cargologik@gmail.com

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SEPIA – A great remedy for Women

Top symptoms of Sepia

• GREAT SADNESS and WEEPING.
• INDIFFERENCE to loved ones, spiteful, critical of others.
• STILLNESS of emotions and mind (Detachment).
• Affects venous circulation and female pelvic organs.
• Uterus prolapse on standing, pressure and bearing down as if everything would protrude from pelvis.
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• Yellowness of face, yellow saddle across upper part of cheeks.
• Sensitive to COLD AIR, lack of vital heat.
• INDIFFERENT TO SEX.
• UPWARD DIRECTION OF SYMPTOMS.
• Sensation of 'emptiness', all gone feeling, better by eating.
• BALL SENSATION in inner parts.

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Homeopathy and Eye Problem Part 29

Symptoms:
Hair fall from Eye brows:

Suggested Medicine:
Kali carb, Silicea, Sulphur, Selenium

Symptoms:
Hair fall from Eye lashes:

Suggested Medicine:
Rhus tox, Apis, Arsenic, Calc Sulph, Euphrasia, Merc sol, Psorinum

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Homeopathy and Eye Problem Part 28

Symptoms:

Especially in the daylight and sunshine, Headache, the light of the candle seeming to be dark and to flicker.

Suggested Medicine:

Euphrasia

Symptoms:

Intolerance to daylight, re, inflamed and swollen eyelids.

Suggested Medicine:

Graphites

Symptoms:

Eyes dazzled and irritated by candle-light in the evening, in candle-light in the evening can see nothing on the table.

Suggested Medicine:

Lycopodium

Symptoms:

Especially on walking in morning, Can hardly open eyes, light causes headache.

Suggested Medicine:

Nat sulph

Symptoms:

Eyes dazzled by daylight, Night-blindness, Halo around a lamplight.

Suggested Medicine:

Sulphur

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Homeopathy and Eye Problem Part 27

Photophobia:
It is the intolerance of light to eye.

Symptoms:

Excessive Photophobia, or a strong desire for light, Black spots and mist before the eyes.
Suggested Medicine:
Aconite

Symptoms:

Photophobia, Worse in warm room, suddenly becomes far-sighted
Suggested Medicine:
Argent nit

Symptoms:

Excessive sensitiveness to light, especially daylight
Suggested Medicine:
Arsenic alb

Symptoms:

Photophobia with conclusive movement of the eyes when light strikes them, Light seems to be surrounded by a halo of various colors.
Suggested Medicine:
Belladona

Symptoms:

Photophobia with pale red color of the ball of the eye.
Suggested Medicine:
Conium

Adenoids

ADENOIDS

The adenoids have been called the “watch dogs of the throat”. Like the tonsils, they guard against respiratory infection in the young child, but like the tonsils they sometimes become infected and swollen themselves.
Adenoids are lymph glands situated at the back of the nose just where the air passages join those of the back of the mouth or pharynx. The lymph system is the body’s defense against infection and the lymph glands, such as the adenoids are full of so placed that any infection breathed in through the nose is filtered by them and hopefully killed sometimes, however, things can go wrong.

CAUSES

Adenoids are present from birth, but on the whole they disappear before puberty. They are most obvious from the age of one to four. This is because between these ages the child is continually deal is known about how the adenoids become infected, but any respiratory germ can affect them. Once they become damaged, chronic infection may set in. If the adenoids are recurrently inflamed, they tend to swell and this can give rise to ill effects.

SYMPTOMS

If the gland becomes swollen due to infection, they interfere with the flow of air through the nose so that the child has to breathe through the mouth, this may cause heavy snoring at night. The closed mouth also causes a nasal tone of speech. The child finds that his “m” comes out as “b” and “n” sounds like “d”. This is because when he closes his mouth to pronounce “m” and “n” through the nose, he cannot do so since his nose is blocked. Breathing through the mouth also makes very dry and the child may continually ask for something to drink. As the adenoids fight infection, white blood cells-both dead and alive-are released in the form of pus. This pus will be seen as a discharge from nose-quite different from the clear, watery discharge of a runny cold. The child sniffs to try to clear it but it then runs down the back of his throat and makes him cough. The cough is particularly obvious at night and is a typical sign of infected adenoids. In the morning, the swallowed pus may cause vomiting.

HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT CURE & MEDICINE

HYDRASITIS: Hydrasitis is perfectly homeopathic to the totality of the symptoms produced by adenoids vegetations; it has the yellow mucus and general lymphoid hypertrophy. Dr. Lambrecht, of Antwerp uses a tampon of Hydrasitis and glycerin, one part of the tincture to six of glycerin, introduce deep into each nostril, having the child make inspiration leaving it there about fifteen minutes. He regards surgical intervention as merely palliative and medical treatment indispensable; Kali Bichromicum may also be indicated.

CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA: Highly recommended by copper, Clifton and many others as a most efficacious remedy in adenoid vegetations. It corresponds to the dyscrasia, which permits adenoid growths or tonsillar enlargement. Calcarea iodide may be used in cases which are febrile in nature.Baryta Carbonica is also a useful remedy, especially in children who have recurring attacks of acute tonsillitis.

CISTUS CANADENSIS: In scrofulous or arthritic individuals who have adenoid vegetations. There is extreme sensitiveness to cold air, this is characteristic. Sensation of heat and dryness in the throat so intense that the patient must drink to relieve. Cold air inhaled causes distress in the throat, the 6th potency seems to succeed the best. Cistus has a special affinity for the naso-pharynx.

TUBERCULINUM: Adenoids are greatly benefited and often times permanently cured by a weekly dose of Tuberculinum or preferably Bacillinum.

AGRAPHIS NUTANS: Obstruction of the nostrils from adenoids. Throat deafness. Clarke of London regarded this remedy as a leading one in cases of adenoids. It was first used by Copper in 1892. Deafness and deaf-mutism, breathes with mouth; open. It is essentially a catarrhal remedy and acts especially on the glands connected with the nasal cavity, and its use generally avoids adenoid surg.

Article by: Dr Muhammad Asif Nayyar
Gulshan e Iqbal
Karachi
Email: nayyer.cargologik@gmail.com

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Homeopathy and Eye Problem Part 26

Symptoms:

Rheumatic Iritis, with tension and much pain in eyes, Intense aching pain in the eyeballs, relief from pressure and worse from slightest motion and especially at night.
Suggested Medicine:
Cimicifuga

Symptoms:

Rheumatic form, Burning, tearing and shooting pain in the eyes, Worse in the evening and at night, Better by firm pressure, A bluish white ring around the cornea.
Suggested Medicine:
Colocynth

Symptoms:

Affecting superficially structures of the eye, Reacting very tardily to light, and the aqueous humor is cloudy from the admixture of the products of inflammation, Pains burning, stinging, shooting in character, are worse at night and are attended with this acrid Lachrymation.
Suggested Medicine:
Euphrasia

Symptoms:

Indicated during the later stage of the disorder, whether syphilitic or not, Corneal ulcer, which reads to perforate rather than to spread superficially, Indolence of the ulceration, Redness attending the inflammation is either absent or very deficient, There is little or no Photophobia.
Suggested Medicine:
Kali bich

Symptoms:

Either rheumatic or traumatic, Pains shoot through the eyes to the back of the head, Profuse flow of hot tears, Pain worse at night, especially after midnight and in damp weather, Marked Photophobia, Lids swollen and spasmodically closed, In some cases, the inflammation may suppurate.
Suggested Medicine:
Rhus tox

Symptoms:

Chronic Iritis in Psoric patients, after suppression of eruptions, Pain worse at night, Hypopion, Relapsing cases.
Suggested Medicine:
Sulphur

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Homeopathy and Eye Problem Part 25

Iritis:
It is the contractile or movable curtain within the eye, which widens or contracts the pupil to admit or to exclude the rays of light, Inflammation of the iris is called Iritis. Iritis may be syphilitic, traumatic, rheumatic, arthritic or serous.

Symptoms:

In the very beginning, after exposure to cold, dry wind, with great heat, burning, dryness in eyes, especially in young, robust individual, irits of traumatic origin (caused by external injury).
Suggested Medicine:
Aconite

Symptoms:

Rheumatic and traumatic Iritis.
Suggested Medicine:
Arnica

Symptoms:
Burning pains worse after midnight, better from warm applications.
Suggested Medicine:
Arsenic alb

Symptoms:
Early stages, caused by a cold, redness and throbbing pain in eye and head, Pain in eye comes and goes suddenly, Photophobia.
Suggested Medicine:
Belladona

Symptoms:
Rheumatic Iritis, Sharp shooting pains in the eye, Pains worse from moving the eyes and on stooping as if everything would press out of the forehead.
Suggested Medicine:
Bryonia