A Homœopathic Remedy Guide for First Aid and Acute Care of Minor Illness. By Douglas Falkner, MD, MHom

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1 A Homœopathic Remedy Guide for First Aid and Acute Care of Minor Illness By Douglas Falkner, MD, MHom

2 How to use this Guide Welcome to the wonderful world of homœopathy and its application to the promotion of health and well- being! With just a little bit of effort and care, you will have the privilege of witnessing homœopathy work its magic, when friends and family experience the effects of accident, injury, or minor illness. Whether for first- aid, acute care, mild or serious illness, or chronic disease, homœopathic medicines must always be individualized. There is a universal law of healing that is described by what homœopaths call the Law of Similars. The Law of Similars states that what symptoms a substance can cause in a healthy person it can cure in the sick. Experience has shown than each homœopathic remedy produces its own pattern or style of symptoms, as does each ailment or disease condition that may befall an individual. Healing occurs when the medicine administered has the properties of stimulating a symptom pattern most similar to what the patient is suffering. What we homœopaths say is that homœopathy treats the person in the disease, not the disease in the person. Therefore, even in first- aid and acute conditions, the remedy that will work best is always the one whose symptoms agree with those of the patient. When the two patterns match well that is, when the symptoms of the patient match the symptoms caused by a remedy we can generally expect a rapid, gentle, safe, and complete restoration of health, a true cure! Below you will find outlined some thirty- two common emergency, first- aid, and acute conditions. Each condition is followed with suggestions of the top remedies commonly associated with successful treatment of the listed condition. Following these, you will find a glossary of Materia Medica covering most of the remedies suggested. The Materia Medica section gives a more extensive and complete description of the symptom profile and symptom pattern of each remedy cited. The purpose of both the outline for common conditions and the Materia Medica section is to make identification of the most suitable remedy both straight- forward and as simple as possible. Always remember that the goal for successful treatment is to find the remedy that most closely matches all the prominent and most characteristic symptoms in each individual case. The biggest trap people fall into when working with homœopathy is to think of remedies as being for this or that. The remedy that will work in one person for a given circumstance will not necessarily work for another in the same circumstance. Conversely, two very different conditions may call for the same remedy. When you want to know if the remedy you are considering is likely to work, your mantra and motto should be: Best when the symptoms agree!

3 First- aid and Acute Conditions Contents 1. Abscesses/Boils 2. Anxiety, acute and situational 3. Bites and Stings from venomous creatures 4. Broken Bones/Crush Injuries 5. Bronchitis 6. Burns 7. Common Colds 8. Collapse 9. Colic 10. Conjunctivitis (pink eye) 11. Constipation 12. Coughs 13. Croup Triad 14. Cuts or Lacerations 15. Dental Pain 16. Dentition 17. Diarrhea (including traveler s diarrhea) 18. Earache (Otitis Media) 19. Eye Injuries/Eye Strain 20. Hay fever/seasonal Allergies 21. Head Injury 22. Influenza 23. Food Poisoning 24. Motion Sickness 25. Sinusitis 26. Snake Bites from Venomous Snakes 27. Sore Throat 28. Sprains and Strains 29. Sunstroke/Heat Exhaustion 30. Urinary Infection 31. Whooping Cough 32. Wounds, Foreign Bodies, Fractures (see also Broken Bones and Crush Injuries)

4 1. Abscesses/Boils Silica terra (Silicea) to hasten suppuration, ripen infections, and obviate surgery, dull throbbing pains. Hepar sulphuris calcareum to resolve exquisitely painful abscesses, patient is chilly and prone to anger. Calcarea sulphurica when pus has already found a vent, longstanding abscesses, yellow discharges. 2. Anxiety, acute and situational Aconitum napellus sudden, fear, shock, panic, restless. Argentum nitricum anticipatory fears, stage fright, something is about to happen. Gelsemium sempervirens battlefield anxiety, fear of an ordeal, anxiety leading to diarrhea, feels weak and shaky. Cannot face it. Lycopodium clavulatum mainly for public speakers who dread appearing in public. Bladder infections (see Urinary) 3. Bites and Stings from venomous creatures Apis mellifica immediately after bee stings, when red, swollen, tender, burning and stinging, better from cold applications and worse from warmth. Arnica montana bruised and achy feeling, aversion any touch. Ledum palustre wounds from sharp, pointy instruments, wounds feel cold, yet better from cold applications. Vespa crabro after wasp stings, less swelling than Apis, more hot and painful, often with itching.

5 MATERIA MEDICA REMEDY LIST 1. ACONITUM NAPELLUS 2. ALLIUM CEPA 3. ALOE SOCOTRINA 4. ALUMINA OXYDATA 5. ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM 6. ARGENTUM NITRICUM 7. ARNICA MONTANA 8. APIS MELLIFICA 9. ARSENICUM ALBUM 10. BAPTISIA TINCTORIA 11. BELLADONNA 12. BRYONIA ALBA 13. CALCAREA SULPHURICA 14. CALENDULA OINTMENT 15. CAMPHORA 16. CANNABIS SATIVA 17. CANTHARIS VESICOTORIA 18. CARBO VEGETABILIS 19. CAUSTICUM HAHNEMANNI 20. CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS 21. COCCULUS INDICA 22. COLOCYNTHIS 23. CUPRUM METALLICUM 24. DIOSCOREA VILLOSA 25. DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA 26. EQUISETUM HYEMALE 27. EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM 28. EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS 29. FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM 30. GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS 31. HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM 32. HYPERICUM PERFORATUM (Remedy and Spray) 33. KALI BICHROMICUM 34. LAC CANINUM 35. LACHESIS MUTA 36. LEDUM PALUSTRE 37. LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM 38. MAGNESIUM PHOSPHORICUM 39. MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS HAHNEMANNI 40. NATRUM MURIATICUM 41. NATRUM SULPHURICUM 42. NUX VOMICA

6 43. OPIUM 44. PETROLEUM 45. PHOSPHORUS 46. PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM 47. PULSATILLA NIGRICANS 48. RHUS TOXICODENDRON 49. RUTA GRAVEOLENS 50. SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS 51. SILICA TERRA (SILICEA) 52. SPONGIA TOSTA 53. STAPHYSAGRIA 54. SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE 55. TABACUM NICOTIANA 56. URTICA URENS 57. VERATRUM ALBUM 58. VESPA CRABRO REMEDIES CITED BUT NOT INCLUDED IN THE MATERIA MEDICA SECTION: CEDRON (VENOMOUS SNAKE BITES) COCCUS CACTI (WHOOPING COUGH) GLONOINUM (HEAT STROKE/HEAT EXHAUSTION) GRANATUM (SUNSTROKE/HEATSTROKE) IPECACUANHA (WHOOPING COUGH) MANGANUM CARBONICUM (TOOTHACHE) MULLEIN/GARLIC OIL (EAR INFECTIONS) NATRUM CARBONICUM (SUNSTROKE/HEATSTROKE) SABADILLA (HAY FEVER)

A Materia Medica of First- aid/acute Care Remedies 1. ACONITUM NAPELLUS: Monkshood. Wolfs bane. Ranunculacea. Affinities: Central nervous system, brain, heart and circulation, acute inflammations.

Mind: Ailments from fright. Mental and emotional shocks. Fear of death and dying. Feels as if he is about to die. Panic attacks. Great fear and restlessness. Forebodings, predicts time of death.

7 A Materia Medica of First- aid/acute Care Remedies 1. ACONITUM NAPELLUS: Monkshood. Wolfs bane. Ranunculacea. Affinities: Central nervous system, brain, heart and circulation, acute inflammations. Main ideas: Sudden, violent, acutely, painful effects. Fear, fright, great anxiety. Anguish of mind and body. Sudden shocks. Fear or terror and great restlessness with all complaints. Mind: Ailments from fright. Mental and emotional shocks. Fear of death and dying. Feels as if he is about to die. Panic attacks. Great fear and restlessness. Forebodings, predicts time of death. Oversensitive to the pains, pains are intolerable and drive one crazy. Despair from the pain. Keynotes: After exposure to cold, dry winds: acute, sudden and violent illness with high fever, rapid action, burning pains Worse: violent emotion, fright, shock, vexation, chilled by cold/dry winds/checked sweat, pressure and touch, night, after midnight Better: Open air, repose 2. ALLIUM CEPA: Red Onion, Liliaceae Affinities: Mucus membranes (eyes, nose, larynx), Allergic disposition, Left side Main ideas: Classic hay fever and allergy symptoms. Nasal discharge acrid, burning and excoriating, with profuse watery discharge and sneezing. Eyes burning and smarting tearing,

with sensitivity to light. Eyes may also have bland tearing. Think of cutting an onion in the kitchen. Mind: Dullness and confusion. May be anxious about their health.

8 with sensitivity to light. Eyes may also have bland tearing. Think of cutting an onion in the kitchen. Mind: Dullness and confusion. May be anxious about their health. Fear of suffering becoming unbearable. Keynotes: Burning and raw watery discharges. Worse: Warm room, wet feet, damp weather, spring and fall. Better: Cool, open air, bathing, motion 3. ALOE SOCOTRINA: Common aloes, Liliaceae, Aloaceae Affinities: Pelvic organs, Veins of rectum, liver, colon, pelvis Main ideas: Relaxation and venous congestion, sense of insecurity of rectum, anal weakness, hemorrhoids like bunch of grapes. Used in diarrheas with gelatinous stools. Mind: Morose, bad mood, discontented, angry and dissatisfied about himself. Hates people and repels everyone. Keynotes: Parts seem full, heavy dragging sensations Worse: Heat, dampness, Summer, early AM in bed, stepping hard Better: cool open air, cold applications.

FIRST AID - CONDITIONS

FIRST AID - CONDITIONS Emergency first aid treatment should almost always include RESCUE REMEDY, a Bach Flower Essence remedy also known as FIVE FLOWER FORMULA. If there has been an accident or a trauma