Richard Moskowitz Homeopathic Medicines for Pregnancy & Childbirth

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1 Richard Moskowitz Reading excerpt of Richard Moskowitz Publisher: North Atlantic Books In the Narayana webshop you can find all english books on homeopathy, alternative medicine and a healthy life. Copying excerpts is not permitted. Narayana Verlag GmbH, Blumenplatz 2, D Kandern, Germany Tel info@narayana-verlag.com

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface...xvii Introduction... xix PART I: INTRODUCTION TO HOMEOPATHY...1 Chapter 1. The Law of Similars and Its Implications...3 The Law of Similars...3 Provings...4 The Homeopathic Materia Medica...4 The Totality of Symptoms...6 The Single Remedy...7 The Minimum Dose...7 The Laws of Cure...8 Chapter 2. Remedies and Patients...11 Homeopathic Pharmacy...11 Case Taking...12 Interrogation...13 Selecting the Remedy...15 Regimen and Precautions...16 Administration and Dosage...17 Reactions to the Remedy...19 Homeopathy: Pros and Cons...20 What Patients Can and Cannot Expect...21

3 PART II: MATERIA MEDICA...23 Chapter 3. Two Childbirth Remedies...29 CAULOPHYLLUM Uterine Dysfunction Muscular Weakness and Trembling Neuralgic and Rheumatic Pains Miscellaneous Symptoms Therapeutics CIMICIFUGA Uterine Dysfunction Pessimism, Fear, and Mental Fragmentation Fragmentation and Alternation of Physical Symptoms.. 36 Nervous Excitation and Choreiform Movements Pain: Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Arthritis Miscellaneous Symptoms Differential Diagnosis Therapeutics Chapter 4. Two Female Remedies PULSATILLA Easy Changeability Emotional Sincerity Heat, Cold, and Circulatory Instability...43 Restlessness Catarrhal Inflammation...44 Indigestion Genital, Reproductive, and Hormonal Imbalance...46 Therapeutics...47 SEPIA...50 Uterine Prolapse and Bearing-Down Pains...50 Sagging Muscles and Tissues...51 Depression and Irritability...51

4 Nausea and Indigestion Need for Physical Exercise Genitourinary Symptoms Miscellaneous Symptoms Therapeutics Chapter 5. Six Acute Remedies ARNICA Blunt Trauma: Bruising, Bleeding, and Shock Therapeutics ACONITE Suddenness and Violence Fear and Palpitations Fever and Inflammation Therapeutics BELLADONNA Suddenness and Violence Brain and Autonomic Nervous System Excitation Fever and Inflammation Therapeutics CHAMOMILLA Irritability and Intolerance of Pain Digestive Disturbances Therapeutics...69 GELSEMIUM Acute Inflammation and Fever: Flu Syndrome...70 Muscular Weakness and Nervous Excitement...71 Miscellaneous Symptoms...72 Therapeutics...72 CALENDULA...73 Therapeutics...73

5 Chapter 6. Eight Common Remedies...75 Two Nervous Remedies...75 IGNATIA...75 Grief, Sorrow, and Disappointed Love...76 "Impossible" or Contradictory Symptoms...77 Drug Sensitivity, Intolerance, and Abuse...78 Miscellaneous Symptoms...78 Therapeutics...78 NUX VOMICA...80 Nervous Hyperstimulation...80 Aggressive, Addictive, and Compulsive Behavior...81 Digestive, Rectal, and Bowel Disturbances...82 Miscellaneous Symptoms...82 Therapeutics...83 Two Connective Tissue Remedies...83 BRYONIA...83 Tissue Affinities...83 Fever with Acute or Subacute Inflammation...84 Aggravation from Movement...84 Irritability and Intolerance of Stimulation...85 Miscellaneous Symptoms...86 Therapeutics...86 RHUS TOX...87 Tissue Affinities...87 Modalities of Motion and Rest and Changes in Weatherand Climate...88 Miscellaneous Symptoms...89 Therapeutics...89 Two Antispasmodic Remedies...91 MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA...91 Cramps and Spasms Relieved by Heat and Pressure...91 Therapeutics...92

6 COLOCYNTHI 94 Neuralgic Pain Relieved by Hard Pressure and Heat..94 Anger and Irritability.94 Colitis and Irritable Bowel Syndrome 95 Therapeutics...96 STAPHYSAGRIA...97 Surgical Wounds 97 Ailments from Suppressed Anger..98 Colitis and Irritable Bowel Syndrome 99 Inflammation of the Genitourinary Tract 100 Therapeutics.100 CARBO VEGETABILIS..101 Deoxygenation, Decay, and Putrefaction..101 Indigestion, Gas, and Bacterial Action 102 Miscellaneous Symptoms.103 Therapeutics.103 Chapter 7. Seven Universal Remedies..105 SULPHUR.105 Yin and Yang: Heat and Energy Phenomena 106 Itching and Skin Eruptions..107 Miscellaneous Keynotes 106 Therapeutics.108 CALCAREA CARBONICA..109 Infancy and Childhood: Delayed Growth and Development..109 Chronicity: Protracted, Recurrent, and Relapsing Complaints.110 Miscellaneous Keynotes Ill Therapeutics.Ill LYCOPODIUM.112 Bilateral Asymmetry.112 Circadian Variations.113

7 Anxiety, Fear, and Hypochondriasis Miscellaneous Keynotes Therapeutics LACHESIS Bilateral Asymmetry Sleep Disturbances Choking and Constriction from Touch, Pressure, and Tight Clothing Internal Tension Relieved by External Discharge Tissue Affinities Miscellaneous Symptoms Therapeutics ARSENICUM ALBUM Fatigue, Exhaustion, and Restlessness Coldness and Lack of Vital Heat; Burning Pains Relieved by Heat Insecurity: Fear, Anxiety, and Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior Miscellaneous Keynotes Therapeutics PHOSPHORUS Tissue Affinities Fear, Empathy, and Imagination Miscellaneous Keynotes Therapeutics NATRUM MURIATICUM Ailments from Grief Miscellaneous Symptoms Therapeutics

8 PART III: THERAPEUTICS Chapter 8. Early Pregnancy: First Trimester Miscarriage and Infertility SABINA CHINA Abortion Nausea and Vomiting COCCULUS COLCHICUM IPECAC SYMPHORICARPUS Anemia and Malnutrition Exercise and Regimen Cystitis CANTHARIS Emotional Problems Chapter 9. Late Pregnancy Second Trimester Vaginitis NITRIC ACID SANICULA Genital Herpes MERCURIUS THUJA Digestive and Bowel Complaints ROBINIA...178

9 Pelvic Pain LILIUM TIGRINUM PALLADIUM PLATINA Two Important Remedies for Late Pregnancy SULPHUR KALI CARBONICUM Third Trimester Arthritis, Neuralgia, and Rheumatism LEDUM RUTA Hemorrhoids AESCULUS HAMAMELIS Varicosities Abnormal Presentation Bleeding Hypertension and Toxemia of Pregnancy APIS Chapter 10. Labor and Childbirth The Initiation of Labor Premature Labor "False" Labor Late Onset and Postmaturity Spontaneous Rupture of Membranes The Conduct and Management of Labor The Stages of Labor Monitoring the Labor

10 The First Stage Failure to Dilate: Prolonged, Difficult, or Dysfunctional Labor Emergencies Second Stage Problems of Expulsion Preparation for Delivery Resuscitation and Care of the Newborn CAMPHORA ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM LAUROCERASUS OPIUM DIGITALIS Third or Placental Stage Retained Placenta Perineal Contusions and Lacerations Postpartum Bleeding SECALE Chapter 11. The Newborn Period Postpartum Care After-Pains Prolapse CAUSTICUM OPIUM RUTA Phlebitis Postpartum Infection PYROGENIUM

11 Depression and Emotional Problems Late Bleeding and Subinvolution Miscellaneous Complaints The Newborn Umbilical Care Jaundice NATRUM SULPHURICUM CHELIDONIUM Hemorrhagic Disease of the Newborn Conjunctivitis Colic and Milk Intolerance Additional Remedies STANNUM DIOSCOREA AETHUSA Failure to Thrive Lactation and Nursing Involution LACCAN1NUM Cracked and Sore Nipples CASTOR EQUI HEPAR SULPHURIS SILICA Breast Infections PHYTOLACCA Notes Appendix: Suggestions for Further Reading Index

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TABLE OF CONTENTS. Introduction

TABLE OF CONTENTS. Introduction TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Introduction xvii xix PART I: INTRODUCTION TO HOMEOPATHY 1 Chapter 1. The Law of Similars and Its Implications 3 The Law of Similars 3 Provings 4 The Homeopathic Materia Medica