Homeopathic during the postpartum period

Homeopathic during the postpartum period

Here is the list of most effective medicines according to symptoms.

ARNICA
After birth or especially Caesarean Arnica will help the healing and ease pain and discomfort. It is a major remedy for postoperative healing.

As a guide one dose three times a day for up to three days should provide much relief, it can be repeated much more frequently if necessary, i.e. every two hours. If however you are still in some discomfort consider Bellis Perennis or Staphysagria below.

Remember Arnica will very much benefit your baby if the birth has been traumatic or forceps were used.

BELLIS PERENNIS
This remedy will further help cases where there is any residual bruising or discomfort remaining after Arnica. It is indicated for abdominal wounds and deep trauma and will complement the initial action of Arnica.

HYPERICUM
This remedy is indicated for injury to the coccyx during labour or delivery and for lacerations which affect parts rich in nerves, including surgery to the genital area. Helpful after episiotomy or a natural tear (compare to Staphysagria) and also for any residual effects following an epidural.

Episiotomy or laceration (in tincture form)
A tincture of hypericum mixed with calendula (Hypercal) can be purchased from a homeopathic pharmacy and used externally. Mix 10 drops in a tablespoon of sterile or cooled boiled water and apply to perineum on a compress. Keep in contact for up to an hour and repeat several times until relief is obtained.

STAPHYSAGRIA
This remedy is also indicated following caesarean, or episiotomy with pain in the incision, great sensitivity and redness of the wound. This is particularly helpful for example if the woman has had an unexpected caesarean which was not of her choosing and feels somewhat violated by the procedure. Consider also Arnica, Bellis Perennis (caesarean) or Hypericum (episiotomy) on their own individual merits

Homeopathic medicine during labour

Homeopathic medicine during labour

Following eight medicines are very effective as per symptoms during labour

1. ACONITE
Aconite is a remedy for shock and fear. In labour it will help if the labour is going too fast and pains are strong and frightening. Often the person who needs this remedy will have a fear that they might die. This might be completely out of proportion to the severity of the situation, i.e. there may be no real risk but the person has this feeling nonetheless.

2. ARNICA
Arnica is the most important remedy for bruising and trauma. During labour can help speed dilation of the cervix and can help prevent both haemorrhage and postpartum infection.
It can be helpful if the woman feels tired especially if there are no other indications for remedies such as Kali Phos or Gelsemium (compare further below).
Please note it can also be given to the baby in case of a traumatic birth or forceps delivery.

3. CAULOPHYLLUM

This remedy may be used if labour is delayed, i.e. if the cervix remains rigid and contractions are not coordinated, changing location and going into the bladder and groins. It can strengthen contractions when they are weak, of short duration or slow down to a stop.

Woman may feel trembly, chilly and weak and may also have pains in fingers and toes appear concurrently.

If this remedy seems indicated but has no effect consider Gelsemium below.

Do not use this remedy in pregnancy except under expert advice.

4. CHAMOMILLA
This remedy can be useful when the pain is centered in the lower back. Particularly with the baby in posterior position.

The woman will feel incredibly irritable with the pain. The pain will seem almost too much to endure. She may react by pushing people away, may not want to be touched or looked at and may react with anger if she has to be examined internally.
This remedy will not be useful unless there is extreme irritability.

5. KALI CARBONICUM

Low back pain. Relieved by pressure/rubbing (compare Chamomilla for posterior presentation).

Chilly and aggravated by draughts.
Aggravation during the night, especially 2-4am.
Woman may be nagging and complaining.

6. KALI PHOSPHORICUM
Exhaustion with no other indications or if Arnica is not helping.

May feel unable to cope and sensitive to noise.

It can be alternated with Arnica when labour slows down and the woman herself or uterine muscles may be tired.

7. GELSEMIUM
This remedy will be helpful if there is a failure to dilate with tiredness and weakness (compare to Kali Phos, Arnica and Caulophyllum).
The weakness often presents with very heavy eyelids and a dazed expression.
Woman may feel trembly especially from fright or anticipation.

It is a remedy for anticipatory anxiety. If entering the hospital and all the subsequent procedures causes the woman to feel very anxious and this seems to be impacting the labour i.e. decreasing or even halting previously strong contractions then Gelsemium by addressing the anxiety may help get things underway again.

8. PULSATILLA

The woman will feel very weepy and tearful and desperate for the company of her partner or other loved ones if she requires Pulsatilla. She will feel better with fresh air.

If the contractions are weak and the cervix is not dilating as it should Pulsatilla can be considered but only if a similar emotional state is presenting.

Can simple Ice be a Remedial Agent for
different Ailments --- Yes of course

Dr. Stacy Jones shares his experiences

• Quinsy

Crushed ice in rubber bag, bladder, or flannel cloth, to the throat, Apply.

• Cramp in stomach or bowel.
Ice to spine, opposite the seat of pain.

• Vomiting in typhoid fever.
Ice to lower part of spine. Eating crushed ice, or drinking iced champagne, controls nausea and

vomiting sometimes even of pregnancy.
• Menses scanty or suppressed.
Ice to the back, low down, half an hour at a time, once or twice a day.

• Falling of the womb. Leucorrhoea.
Ice to the back, low down, one or two hours at a time daily.

• Shrunken breasts.
Ice to the back, in rubber bag, opposite to the breast, two hours at a time, twice a day, for several weeks. Hot water applied in the same way will diminish the size of the breasts.

• Local anaesthesia. Insensibility to pain.
Mix pounded ice or snow with salt, equal parts, and apply this mixture, enveloped in a soft cloth, to the part to be operated upon, until it becomes numb.

• Opium poisoning, Profound stupor.
Ice reduced to small pieces, a pint or more, insert into the rectum. Also apply ice to spine of the neck, and in arm pits. --- Restoration in 10 minutes.

• Stranguary.
Plug the rectum with small pieces of ice; in 20 minutes the urine will flow. Sitting upon a chamber vessel containing chopped onions steeping in hot water will also excite the flow.

• Spasms.
Ice to back of the neck, near the base of the brain, not directly to the head.

• Cold feet (chronic condition).
Ice in rubber bag, to spine low down, an hour at a time, once a day for a week.

Homeopathic Dr. Sultan Mahmood
HillView Avenue , Adyala Road ,
Rawalpindi
E-Mail:- hdrsmahmood@hotmail.com

Allopathy Versus Homeopathy in Meningitis Ring

Love Homeopathy --- Homeopathy never betrays you

Allopathy Versus Homeopathy in Meningitis Ring

It was perhaps 15th July, 2010 when a little baby of about 7 years old was admitted by her mother (a senior nurse by profession) in one of the best hospitals of Islamabad for the treatment of high fever, violent convulsions, severe headache and vomiting. The treatment was started with high doses of intravenous antibiotic injections and tranquilizers. But, unfortunately the condition of the patient was becoming from bad to worse. In order to establish the nature of disease, various laboratory tests were carried out and ultimately the findings declared that the patient had an attack of Meningitis. The medicines were changed accordingly and a new series of medicines were unsealed for the poor baby. What these medicines played havoc with the fragile physique of the innocent baby is simply inexpressible. The elder brother of the sister nurse being a good friend of mine contacted me and asked to talk to his sister for providing homeopathic help. I phoned the nurse and collected the details of symptoms. To start with the homeopathic treatment a single dose of Phosphorus-30 + Ipecac-30+ Arsenicum-200 was given for instant relief of nausea and vomiting. This was followed by a combination of Belladona-30+ Gelsemium-30 + Baptisia-30 for fever, convulsions and headache. The combination acted wonderfully and the baby was completely restored to health within 24 hours. I asked the sister nurse as to whether she informed the allopath doctors about this magic. She hesitantly said ‘No’. The doctors were celebrating their success but in fact allopathy was secretly trounced by homeopathy.

Homeopathic Dr. Sultan Mahmood,
Hill View Avenue, Adyala Road,Rawalpindi
E-Mail:- hdrsmahmood@hotmail.com

Dr. Stacy Jones Plays Magic with ALUM

· Local itching, Burn, Scald, Ulcerated mouth, Unhealthy gums, Ulcerated throat, Relaxed throat, Palate down, Otorrhoea, Ozaene, Leucorrhoea, Falling of the womb, Chronic catarrh of the bladder, Bronchorrhoea.

Alum water: 5 to 10 grains of the Alum powder to an ounce of water --- Use as a wash, gargle, injection, or spray.

· Falling of the Womb.

Support with sponge soaked with Alum water.

· Ophthalmia, Purulent Ophthalmia, Conjunctivitis.

Use as an eye wash, Alum water; made with Rose-water, instead of plain water; or apply Alum curd.

· Granulated eyelids.

Alum pencil.

· Nose-bleed.

Snuff pulverized Alum; or Alum water.

· Bleeding wound.

Dust it with Alum powder.

· Bleeding socket after tooth extracted. Cold in the jaw after tooth extracted.

Dampen a small roll of cotton, roll it in Alum powder, and plug the cavity with it.

· Internal haemorrhage. Menorrhagia. Diarrhoea and vomiting. Chronic bronchitis. Diphtheria. Croup.

Alum whey --- Made by stirring 2 drachms of Alum powder, into a pint of boiling milk, the curd strained off, and the whey sweetened -- To an adult, a wine glass full several times a day.

Homeopathic Dr. Sultan Mahmood
HillView Avenue , Adyala Road ,
Rawalpindi

E-Mail:- hdrsmahmood@hotmail.com

Tips on Onion

We are Indebted to Dr. Stacy Jones for his Wonderful Tips on Onion

• Lockjaw from a wound, especially from a nail.
Apply raw onion pulp mixed with salt.

• Ague.
Bind to the feet and wrists, for several days, raw onion pulp.

• Obstruction of urine.
Apply raw onion pulp to region of bladder; or sit twenty minutes upon a chamber vessel containing bruised onions steeping in hot water.

• Falling of the hair.
Apply onion juice to the scalp twice a week.

• Abscess, Carbuncle, boil.
Apply onion roasted.

• Nervous Croup.
Hold to the nose a bruised onion.

• Baby’s Colic.
Onion tea.

• Bilious Colic.
Eat a raw onion – Drink onion tea

• Kidney Colic.
Apply to seat of pain raw onion pulp. Eat raw onion.

• Painful Piles.
Raw onion pulp. Apply.

Homeopathic Dr. Sultan Mahmood
HillView Avenue , Adyala Road ,
Rawalpindi
E-Mail:- hdrsmahmood@hotmail.com

The Healing Power of Vinegar

The Healing Power of Vinegar
Picked up from Bee Line Therapia and Repertory by Dr. Stacy Jones

• Bleeding wound, Bleeding lung, or nose.
Inhale the fumes of boiling vinegar – nothing better.
• Black specks in the skin of the face, Ring-worm and Warts,
Wash the face with vinegar, full strength on going to bed,
• Diseased gums, foul, spongy.
Use dilute vinegar as a mouth wash.
• Birth mark.
Soak cotton in strong vinegar, and apply under compress – It peels off.
• Ulcer.
Vinegar, 10 per cent solution in water, use as a lavement, three times a day.
• Burn or scald.
Apply vinegar, full strength, until pain abates.
• Corns,
Bind on bread crumbs or cotton, soaked in vinegar, nightly.
• Hemorrhage from the womb.
A sponge or cloth saturated with vinegar dilute, convey into the womb, and retain it there a few seconds, Give also gill doses of vinegar – Nothing better.
• Mad dog bite.
Lave wound with hot vinegar, and wipe dry; then pour into it several drops of Nitric acid – This will prevent rabies.
• Nose bleed.
Plug nostrils with cotton saturated with dilute vinegar.
• Nasal polypus.
Inject 5 drops of Acetic acid into it.
• Milk Crust.
Cut off the hair closely, wash the scalp thoroughly with Castile soap, and apply twice a day pure cider vinegar diluted with water, one part to three. Use Ichthyol soap.
• Paralysis, Spinal weakness, Involuntary passage of urine or stool, Asthma, Pains of various kinds in the body.
Rub the spine thoroughly three times a day with hot vinegar; especially that point nearest the seat of ailment.
• Influenza, Coryza.
Saturate a small pledget of cotton with vinegar and insert it into one nostril loosely, and after an hour remove it; and put one in the other nostril; thus alternate and cure.
• Gonorrhoea.
Acetic acid inject: first a 1 per cent solution in lukewarm water, six or eight times a day; after a day or two increase the strength to 4 per cent. In desperate cases, shockingly neglected, or mistreated, apply hot poultices for a day or two, before beginning the Acetic acid treatment – No treatment more satisfactory.
• Chronic Gout. Enlarged joints.
Into a given quantity of hot vinegar put as much salt as it will dissolve; with this bathe the part, and dry it in by the fire, several times a day.

Homeopathic Dr. Sultan Mahmood
HillView Avenue , Adyala Road ,
Rawalpindi
E-Mail:- hdrsmahmood@hotmail.com

Lemon Tips as seen and experienced
by Dr. Stacy Jones

•To check diarrhea.
Drink hot lemonade.

•To arrest immoderate flow of menses.
Suck the juice of lemon.

•To harden the nipples before confinement.
Begin two weeks in advance, and lave them with lemon juice.

•To arrest flooding.
Inject the juice of half dozen lemons into the womb.

•Sweating Rheumatism. Scurvy.
Partake of lemon juice, or lemonade freely.

•Cough.
Lemon juice and sugar.

•Chilblain.
Dilute citric acid and peppermint water in equal parts, mix, and apply twice a day.

•Biliousness.
Instead of calomel, take the juice of one two, or three lemons, according as the appetite craves, in as much water as will render it pleasant to drink, without sugar, before going to bed: and in the morning half hour before breakfast, take the juice of one in a goblet of water.

Homeopathic Dr. Sultan Mahmood,
Hill View Avenue, Adyala Road,
Rawalpindi
E-Mail:- hdrsmahmood@hotmail.com

Advantages of Homeopathy

Advantages of Homeopathy
Dr. Sayeed Ahmad D. I. Hom. (London)

* Homœopathy is gentle and effective system of medicine.
* Homœopathy gives long lasting to permanent cure.
* Homœopathy treats the patient as a whole and not just the disease.
* Homœopathic remedies are gentle, non-toxic, harmless, safe and without any side-effects.
* Unlike Antibiotics, homœopathic remedies do not disturb digestive system nor do they lower the immune system (Body’s resistance).
* Homœopathy is friendly to children, young and old.
* In most of the cases homœopathy can avoid surgery.
* Homœopathy is very effective in various allergic disorders in addition to other diseases of all kinds.
* Homœopathy is a gift of God as well as blessings to the ailing human beings.
* Homœopathy is a boon in the hands of qualified doctors (Classical Homœopaths) who strictly follow the rules and instructions laid down by Dr. S. Hahnemann in his book "Organon of Medicine". Mixopathy has no place in homœopathy.
* Homœopathy is equally effective and safe to human beings, animals and birds.
* Homœopathic remedies do not have expiry dates, provided they are kept properly.
* Homœopathy is founded upon the steadfast pillars of truth and will ever more be so.
* Homœopathic treatment is given to correct the root cause of the illness.
* Homœopathic medicines are administered in minute doses that act gently and stimulate the body’s self-healing response.
* Homœopathic remedies are all natural medicines. Some are herbs, some minerals or other natural substances. They are prepared by a special process of step by step dilution and succusion (shaking) which makes them capable of effecting in a much deeper way than the remedy could without this process.
* Homœopathic treatment is ideal to optimize the body’s natural defenses against microbes. With the appropriate homœopathic treatment, people recover from infectious diseases, even the most serious ones, gently and rapidly.
* Homœopathy works in harmony with the immune system, unlike Allopathic Drugs which suppress and destroy the immune system.
* Homœopathic remedies are not addictive – once relief is felt, patient should stop taking them.

Mahatma Gandhi said – "Homœopathy is the latest and refined method of treating patients economically and non-violently."

Copyright © Dr. Sayeed Ahmad 2004

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