Homeopathic Remedy Guide for: Workers, Union Members, Strikers, Activists, Demonstrators, Liberation Fighters, & All of the Good Trouble Makers – Erika Price

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Homeopathic
Remedy Guide for: Workers, Union Members, Strikers, Activists,
Demonstrators, Liberation Fighters, & All of the Good Trouble Makers
By Erika
Price, DIHom, DHM, BIHF (U.K.).
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The Ailments
* Miners * Uranium and Radiation poisoning
* RSI and Carpal Tunnel
Syndrome

Remedies:
Aconitum * Apis * Arnica * Arsenicum * Bovista * Cantharis * Carboneum-S * Carbo-veg
* Calcarea fluorica * Causticum * China * Eupatorium-perf * Hypericum
* Ledum * Mercurius
solubilis * Natrum muriaticum * Petroleum * Phosphorus *
Radium bromatum Rhus-tox *
Ruta * Silica * Staphysagria * Sulphur *
Symphytum * Uranium
nitricum

The Ailments:
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Ailments from: Injuries, Chemical agents, Toxic
fumes, Tear gas, Pepper spray, Chemical burns, Burns,
Blisters, Bruises, Billy clubs, Rubber bullets, Gunshot,
Bullet wounds, Stab wounds, Puncture wounds, Water cannons,
Cattle prods, Beatings, Dog bites, Eye injuries, Hemorrhage,
Bleeding, Wounds, Cuts, Lacerations, Palpitations,
Hyperventilation, Strangulation, Suffocation, Sprains,
Strains, Fractures, Foot Pain, Concussions, Contusions,
Overexertion, Weakness, Collapse, Dehydration.

photo by Daymon Hartley

photo by Joe Stefanchik

Laryngitis and voice loss: in public speakers,
demonstrators, strikers.

Mental and Emotional Ailments: Violence, Threats,
Anger, Shock, Trauma, Shell shock, Fear, Anxiety, Stress,
Worry, Shock, Anger, Depression, Exploited, Rape,
Imprisonment, Claustrophobia, Agoraphobia, Insomnia.

Ailments in Workers from Poisons: Miners, Uranium and Radiation
poisoning, Tar workers, Rubber workers, Swamp and Sewer
workers, Gas fumes, Skin disorders, Asthma, Coughs, carbon
poisoning, lead poisoning, carbon monoxide; etc.

RSI and
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in white collar workers and writers.

drawing by Erika Price

Ailments in the Jungles: Malaria, Cholera,
Dengue Fever, Tick fever.

Other Acute Ailments: Sudden illness, Influenza,
Dental Problems, Cystitis, Cold sores, Sciatica, Altitude
sickness, Migraine, Headaches, Food poisoning, Diarrhea,
Skin problems, Allergic reactions, Insect Bites and Stings,
Frostbite, Rheumatism and Arthritis, Motion sickness,
Nosebleeds, Coughs,

Remedies:

Aconitum * Apis * Arnica * Arsenicum * Bovista * Cantharis * Carboneum-S * Carbo-veg
Calcarea fluorica * Causticum * China * Eupatorium-perf * Hypericum
* Ledum Mercurius
solubilis * Natrum muriaticum * Petroleum * Phosphorus *
Radium bromatum Rhus-tox *
Ruta * Silica * Staphysagria * Sulphur *
Symphytum * Uranium
nitricum

It’s very important to choose and use homeopathics correctly: Homeopathic Guidelines

Aconitum napellus or Aconite
(monkshood) 30c, 200c:
In any circumstance when there is an initial traumatic and
violent shock to the system, such as from a violent attack, vehicle
crash, injuries, animal bites.

• Shock from wounds that bleed freely.

• Hyperventilation from shock, anxiety, injury, acute
  illness.

• Shell Shock that develops from a shattering experience
  and/or shock, which may have terrified them with or without their
  knowledge at the time and become a chronic and deep layer. To remove
  the remaining shock.

• Anxiety that comes on suddenly from the shock and
  fright during an attack or accident, as a result of having been
  threatened with a gun or trapped in a dark tunnel, and in a crowd.
  The parent of child in danger or sudden agonizing fear of death
  coming to a loved one or self. Foreboding and fear of subconscious
  nature (surfacing 15 minutes after falling asleep and jumps from bed
  in a panic); with restlessness, trembling, exhaustion and
  palpitations with rapid, hard pulse.

Anxiety can be with restlessness, palpitations, anxious respiration,
vomiting, head congestion, headache, moaning, discouraged,
depression or sadness. Anxiety is relieved by a cold drink like
water, and movement.
• Fear of suffocation and sudden death, of heart attacks and
  stroke, fear that the heart will stop beating or explode; fears of
  crowds, of the dark (sleep with the lights on), of traveling in a
  car and airplane. Claustrophobia with anxiety and fear of
  suffocation, in elevators, tunnels, the subway, underground, MRI
  test, in public assembly halls, theaters, and likes to sit in back
  of the theater. Agoraphobia with fear and anxiety in public
  places, when driving on highways, in open spaces and crowds, and of
  leaving the house.

• Palpitations from anxiety, and after a fright; that are
  sudden, with anguish and restlessness;

• Acute and Sudden Illness: Early Stages when
  the patient is hot, thirsty, shivery, and can have high fever,
  pounding pulse, with anxiety and impatience; symptoms come on after
  exposure to sudden cold, dry, frosty, windy weather.
• Dengue Fever initial onset with fever and pains in joints
  and muscles.

• Malaria in a recent case to relieve symptoms of chills,
  fever, sweating, and shivering fits.

• Eye Injuries for acute inflammation from getting something
  in the eye.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < from cold, being chilled, stuffy warm
room, becoming over-heated, very hot weather, sudden weather
changes, sun exposure, evening and night, violent emotions,
motion, touch.

Better from > from fresh air, rest, lying on back,
after perspiring.

The remedy
interactions for
Aconitum napellus

Antidoted by: ACET-AC, ALCOHOL, ACTEA-R, BELL, BERB,
BRY, COFF, MEZ, NIT-AC, NUX-V, PARIS-Q, PETR, SULPH, VINUM.

It Antidotes: ALUM, ARN, BELL, BRY, CANTH, CHAM, CHEL,
COFF, DOL, GLON, GRAPH, KALM, KREOS, LYC, MEZ, NIT-AC, NUX-V,
PETR, SEP, SPONG, STRY, SULPH, VERAT, VERAT-S.

Incompatible: vegetable acid & wine, alcohol. Compatible:
HEP. Acute of: ALUM, SULPH.

Apis mellifica
(honey-bee) 9c, 12c:
Is the homeopathic Anti-inflammatory and Anti-histamine.
Burning, stinging, sharp pains and excessive swelling and puffing up. Swelling
with inflammation of lips, tongue, eyes, skin. Inflammations and
allergic conditions with swelling around eyes, lids swollen, shiny, red;
whites of eyes are red with bright red vessels; excessive tearing;
burning, stinging; sudden piercing pains. Anaphylactic shock and
difficulty breathing caused by chemicals agents like tear gas, etc.,
used against demonstrators. With symptoms throat pain is burning and
stinging; mouth is dry, without thirst; tongue dryness; scalded feeling
with burning pain as if burnt.

• Allergic reactions when skin is bright pink, burning,
  itching, stinging, with swelling, puffiness and edema. Hives
  with burning and swelling of lips and eyelids; nodular eruption on
  face and extremities; from change of air and weather.

• Bites and Stings from bees, wasps, spider, mosquito, and
  jellyfish; with rapid swelling and large shiny red lumps that itch,
  burn or sting.

• Frostbite with severe burning.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Better from > cold applications and cold air.

The remedy
interactions for
Apis mellifica

Antidoted by: LACH, LED, IP, NAT-M, PLAN, URT-U.

It Antidotes: CANTH, CHIN, DIG, IOD, NAT-P.

Incompatible: RHUS-T; onions, sweet oils.

Acute of: NAT-M, BAR-C (if lymph or glands swollen.)

Arnica montana
(leopard’s bane) 1M, 200c,
30c:
Don’t leave home without this remedy! When in doubt: Arnica! It
is homeopathy’s “Miracle Remedy” in any injury or accident or
acute trauma. Accidents experienced during a demo, or any other physical
activity.

Take ARNICA 1M first during initial trauma, then 200c every 20
minutes for up to 6 doses, then 30c 2-4 times daily as needed until
cure; depending on injury it may be alternated with another appropriate
remedy such as Ruta.

• Injuries with swelling and aching, soreness, and pain feels
  bruised or beaten; injury to male genitals; injuries from blows,
  including from blunt instruments like billy clubs and rubber
  bullets, and causing much bruising and bleeding.

• Bruises to soft sensitive parts of flesh or muscle; black
  and blue marks (it repairs damaged blood vessels and reduces
  swelling); blood blisters after an injury.

• Head Injuries concussion, contusion, unconscious. Headaches
  from shock or injury; concussions to base of spine (followed with
  Hypericum 30c); forgetful, memory loss and amnesia caused by a head
  injury; meningitis when symptoms start after a head injury. Arnica
  an be taken before and after a physical workout to prevent
  straining.

• Shock and Trauma to the whole system after traumatic
  injury; 1st remedy given in accidents and injury (especially
  traumatic).

• Anxiety from fear or fright, in any physical situation;
  originating from shock of accidents and overexertion, with a bruised
  or numb state.

• Overexertion on the picket line for too many hours.
  Ailments of tired and heavy feet after walking, and weakness from
  exertion.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < movement, overexertion, least touch,
jar, hard bed.

Better from > lying down, and with head low, open
air, clear cold, stimulating weather, tobacco.

The remedy
interactions for
Arnica Montana

Antidoted by: ACON, CALEN, CAMPH, CHIN, CINA, COFF,
FERR, IGN, IP; coffee.

It antidotes: ALL-C, AM-C, HAM, CHIN, CIC, FERR, IGN,
IP, PHYS, SENEG.

Compatible: ARS, HEP, HYPER, RUTA.

Incompatible: wine, coffee, alcohol. Acute of:
SPIG.

Arsenicum album
(arsenous acid) 12c, 30c:
For the toxic effects of toxic chemicals used against
demonstrators that cause anaphylaxis reaction, exhaustion, collapse,
insomnia, restlessness and great weakness. Very important remedy for
conditions caused by chemical warfare of any kind, including
radiation sickness, pesticides and chemicals. Burning pains improved by
hot compresses.

• Migraine headaches that come on suddenly with stunning and
  stupefying pain, and with nausea and vomiting.

• Altitude Sickness With exhaustion, weakness, wheezing,
  chilliness, diarrhea. Ailments from mountain climbing.

• Insomnia from anxiety and shock which drives out of bed
  even if exhausted; from over-active mind; from drug and alcohol
  habits; worse after midnight Restlessness during sleep; wakes
  unrefreshed and feels wretched. Loss of breath on falling asleep.
  Sleepless in the evening. Sleeping sickness. Dreams-
  frightful of death or dead people and danger; involving exhaustion,
  over-exertion and debility.

• Fear that comes in sudden waves; that something will go
  wrong, of being alone least they die, of sudden death especially
  when alone and in bed, of impending death, of death while vomiting,
  of being poisoned, of contamination, of disease, of cancer, of
  becoming disabled, that a friend has met with an accident, of
  suffocation, in narrow places, of being late for an appointment, of
  knives and sharp things, of injury, of falling, of killing, and
  after anger.

• Anxiety for others, from pain and sufferings, from motion,
  from sedentary employment. Anxiety as if they have not done their
  duty and if anything is expected of them. Their anxiety can be felt
  in stomach and abdomen, as butterflies in the stomach, with a
  headache. Worries unduly and about many things, and is sure
  there is something seriously wrong.

• Shell Shock from the long term affects of trauma with much
  anxiety, despair, depression and hopelessness. Overpowering fears
  coming from and about the past. Sudden impulse to kill someone
  including a loved one, or the desire to be killed.

• Diarrhea in chronic or acute cases with extreme weakness,
  debility, exhaustion, and restlessness; chilliness, coldness of
  extremities, trembling of limbs; can come on after eating or
  drinking water or cold drinks, and after anxiety; with
  collapse after; from spoiled and rancid food, especially meat
  and poultry; from over ripe fruit or too much fruit, ice cream,
  popsicles, or icy drinks when hot; while at the seashore; with
  nausea and vomiting. Dysentery, to prevent and treat in
  travel related attacks; in chronic, intractable cases; with anxiety;
  better from heat, and sips of hot drinks. Cholera to
  prevent catching the disease, and/or to treat the diarrhea and
  dehydration.

• Food Poisoning and mild ptomaine with nausea, vomiting,
  diarrhea, burning pain in stomach, gastric distress, diarrhea and/or
  vomiting; with chilliness, thirst and restlessness; with sudden
  migraine headache. From tainted meat or bad water, mushroom
  poisoning, possible salmonella infection, or spoiled fish. [30c
  every hour 3-4 doses, after vomiting and diarrhea have started.]

• Weakness with sudden and rapid onset with great exhaustion
  and collapse, as if about to die; sudden great exhaustion,
  too weak to move, and excessive from any exertion; from exposure to
  dampness, the summer heat and the summer sun, sunstroke, pain,
  diarrhea, and during a fever; felt in head and in stomach.

• Dengue Fever with exhaustion from least exertion and fever;
  to prevent or treat the scalded-like rashes.

• Over-exertion from engaging in physical activity, sports,
  and walking; felt after vexation.

• Prophylactic to protect against measles, cholera, and
  intermittent fevers.

• Skin Disorders Skin tends to be cold, dry, scaly and
  flaking off a fine white powder and parchment-like, rough or waxy.
  Itchy and burning pain of skin. Tendency to skin cancer, and skin
  disorders from toxins.

• Sciatica in chronic, periodic, or intermittent cases, more
  on the left side, with weakness and burning pain in
  the lower limbs along the sciatic nerve with anesthetic loss of
  feeling, pain also is tearing, shooting and shifting; pain can begin
  in the ankle and ascend; may come on as a result of living in a cold
  damp house; worse sitting, touch, at night, midnight, and from cold,
  better from warmth, movement, walking, cold compresses, walking,
  flexing leg and pressure.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < cold, wet weather, after midnight, when
alone, right-side, exertion, on waking.

Better from > external heat, hot compresses,
warm drinks, movement, elevating head, in the morning, talking and
conversation especially about problems.

The remedy interactions for
Arsenicum album

Antidoted by: BELL, CAMPH, CARB-V, CHIN, CHIN-S, FERR,
HEP, IOD, IP, KALI-BI, LACH, MERC, NUX-M, NUX-V, OP, SAMB, PULS,
VERAT.

It Antidotes: ARG-N, CARB-AN, CARB-V, CHIN, FERR, GRAPH,
HEP, HYPER, IOD, IP, KALI-BI, LACH, MAG-C, MAG-M, MERC, NAT-C,
NAT-M, NUX-V, PHOS, PLB, SAMB, STRY, TAB, VERAT.

Incompatible: honey, cane juice.

Compatible and intercurrent with: ARN, BAR-C, CAUST.

Acute of: NAT-SULPH in asthma, THUJ.

Bovista lycoperdon
(puff-ball) 30c:

• Suffocation from gas fumes or asphyxia due to fumes
  of tar and charcoal.

• Toxic Poisoning in miners in an individual who has
  been down in a mine, in the swamp, down in the mud, in the sewers,
  who has inhaled foul gases, and who goes into bed with a sort of
  stupor.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < morning, hot weather, tight clothing
especially around waist.

Better from > bending doubled.

The remedy interactions
for
Bovista lycoperdon

It Antidotes: TARENT.

Incompatible: coffee.

Cantharis vesicatoria
(spanish fly) 6c, 9c,12c:
Acute burning, scalding pain and irritation of the mucous
membranes from chemical burns, pepper spray as used against
demonstrators. Extremely painful burning, scalding, raw, pains.

• Blisters and blister-like eruptions, from burns and scalds;
  including on tongue, and cornea burns.

• Cystitis and Urinary Track Infection with intolerably
  painful and frequent urge to urinate; with violent burning, cutting
  and scalding pain before and during urination.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < touch.

Better> cold applications.

The remedy
interactions for
Cantharis vesicatoria

Antidoted by: ACON, APIS, BELL, CAMPH, PULS, SULPH,
SYMPH.

Incompatible: COFF; oil, coffee.

It antidotes: BELL, CAMPH, CARB-V; vinegar, alcohol.

Carboneum sulphuratum
(bisulfide of carbon) 12c,
30c:

• Toxic Poisoning from coal gas, with asphyxia;
  in rubber workers; from carbon poisoning; chronic lead
  poisoning; with anesthesia of various body parts; lassitude and
  collapse, with desire to lie down; great weariness in morning; and
  in persons broken down and weak from abuse of alcohol.

• Diminished sensibility of arms, hands, feet; hand feels
  gloved, insensible, rigid, stiff; peripheral neuritis; anesthesia of
  skin; intense congestion of nerve centers.

• Chronic or Acute Sciatica of left side or either side;
  worse from heat or cold applications; attacks at regular intervals;
  with increasing stiffness and difficulty walking.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < after breakfast, morning, evening,
night, before midnight, bathing, sensitive to change of weather
especially warm damp weather and summer heat, cold of winter,
cold, cold feet, draft, warm wraps, clothing, standing, ascending,
heavy stepping.

Better from > open air, pressure, warm drinks.

Carbo vegetabilis
(vegetable charcoal) 12c, 30c:

• Asphyxia from carbon monoxide poisoning, and situations in
  which there is a lack of oxygen with difficult and
  accelerated breathing.

• Headaches with a heavy lead-like feeling from smog and
  carbon monoxide poisoning from car exhausts.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < loss of fluids, warmth, warm room,
warm-damp weather, getting overheated, motion, lying down,
pressure of cloths, night, evening, 4-5 p.m., during and after
eating;

Better from > being fanned, open cool air, lying
down, belching, elevating feet.

The remedy
interactions for
Carbo vegetabilis

Antidoted by: ARS, CAMPH, CANTH, COFF, LACH, NUX-V.

It Antidotes: ARS, BRY, CALAD, CALC-AR, CHIN, LACH,
MERC, TARENT. Incompatible: KREOS; glycerine, vegetable
oils.

Compatible: LYC, CIST.

Causticum
(potash prep.-acris sine kali) 12c, 30c:

• Voice Loss and laryngitis in speakers, from talking too
  much, from rally cries, and from singing, with hoarseness, weak
  larynx and rawness that is worse morning and evening; feels like raw
  lining of larynx so they have to cough to bring it up.

• Burns until medical help is attained for third degree burns
  and scalds with serious burns and terrible pains, chemical burns
  with raw burning and blistering.

• Sciatica on the left-side, tearing shooting darting
  shifting, with numbness; lancinating pain with electric like shock.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < dry weather, fine and clear weather,
cold air and drafts, hot and humid environments, change of
weather, from warm to cold, right then left, beginning of motion,
running, hurried eating.

Better from > wet weather, warm air, rain, cloudy
weather, open air, drafts, heat, summer, darkness, loosening
clothes, cold drinks, smoked meat.

The remedy
interactions for
Causticum

Antidoted by: AM-M, ANT-T, ASAF, COFF, COLOC,
DULC, GUAJ, NUX-V.

Incompatible: COFF, PHOS; acids, coffee.
Do not use with PHOS: Must not be used before or after
PHOS, always disagrees.

It antidotes: ANT-T, ASAF, CHIN, COLOC, EUPHR, GRAT,
LYC, PLB; paralysis from lead poisoning (bad effects of holding
type in mouth of compositors), and abuse of MERC or SULPH in
scabies (itchy rough skin).

Compatible: MAG-C; MERC assists the action of.

China officinalis, Cinchona off.
(peruvian bark) 12c 30c:
For systems, once robust, which have become debilitated and
“broken down” from exhausting discharges and loss of fluids
like malarial fevers, diarrhea, and hemorrhaging, with trembling, and
aversion to exercise. Very sensitive to touch, to pain, to drafts of
air; entire nervous system extremely sensitive.

• Malaria and the lingering effects of malaria. Intermittent
  fevers, that last from two to three hours in each attack; returns
  every seven or fourteen days.

• Diarrhea of malarial origin, returns every other day.
  Diarrhea like chopped egg, painless, watery, offensive; worse after
  eating, fruit, summer chills.

• Hemorrhages of mouth, nose, bowels or uterus; Long
  Continued; longing for sour things. Disposition to hemorrhage from
  every orifice of the body, with ringing in ears, fainting, loss of
  sight, general coldness, sometimes convulsions.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and
circumstances which aggravate (make worse), or
ameliorate (make better) the person and their symptoms.
Critically important in choosing a remedy:

Worse from < loss of vital fluids, after eating,
every other day, emotions, mental labor, gentle touch, night,
cold, cloudy weather, open air, drafts.

Better from > firm pressure, touch, bending double,
after sweating, warmth.

The remedy interactions for
China officinalis

Antidoted by: ANT-T, ARAN, ARN, ARS, APIS, BELL, BRY,
CALC, CAPS, CARB-V, CAUST, EUP-PER, FERR, HAM, IP, LYC, MERC,
NAT-C, NAT-M, NUX-V, PULS, RHUS-T, SEP, SULPH, VERAT.

Incompatible: SEL, after DIG, before KREOS.

It Antidotes: ANT-T, ARN, ARS, ASAF, AUR, CALC, CAPS,
CHAM, COFF, CUPR, FERR, GELS, GRAPH, HAM, HELL, HYOS, IOD, IP,
MERC, SULPH, VERAT.

Acute of: PHOS-AC (in loss of animal fluids.)

NOTE: Is useful in bad effects from excessive tea drinking or
abuse of chamomile tea, when hemorrhage results.

Eupatorium perfoliatum
(boneset) 12c, 30c:

• Influenza with intense bone pain and violent aching
  as if broken, dares not move, muscle aches in chest, back and limbs,
  aching in extremities, fever with great thirst, burning heat,
  shivers and chills begin in the small of back, bursting headache
  with soreness internally and restlessness, sore eyeballs, desire for
  warmth; stomach flu with nausea at sight or smell of food, with
  vomiting of food and bile, with fever.

• Dengue Fever with bone pain, muscle aches, insatiable
  thirst, and flu-like symptoms. Tick fever.

• Malaria with aching bones and intermittent and relapsing
  fevers.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < cold air, open air, morning, 7-9 a.m.,
2pm, movement, coughing, periodically, third or forth day, sight
and odor of cooked food.

Better from > warmth, indoors, perspiration, lying on
face, getting on hands and knees, conversation, vomiting up bile.

The remedy interactions
for
Eupatorium perfoliatum

It Antidotes: CHIN. Compatible & follows well:
NAT-M, SEP.

Hypericum perforatum
(St. Johns wort) 30c, 200c and
Hypericum mother tincture diluted in water and applied locally to
injury
Pain reliever for intolerable “exquisite” pain and the
equivalent of a morphine-like medicine in homeopathy. Shooting pains.
Shock to the nervous system from severe pain involving the nerves. Violent
Wounds from gunshot, stabs and bites. To prevent tetanus
caused by puncture wounds with shooting pains in nerves; [take 30c
immediately after puncture wound and follow with Ledum 30c]. Nerve
Pain and Damage with neuralgia, neuritis, intolerable pain
from lacerations, deep wounds, stab and gunshot wounds, with
inflammation and shooting pains which shoots up from the injury; nerve
pain from burns.

• Injuries with nerve pain from puncture wounds,
  incised wounds and laceration; bruises and contusions; prostration
  from injuries; injury in which victim lies on their back, jerking
  head back.

• Cuts and Wounds with nerve pain that is burning,
  stinging, shooting, throbbing; more painful then the wound appears;
  open and lacerated wounds; wounds with scurf.

• Concussion from and after injuries, blows to
  the head and spine; with headaches and convulsions. Memory loss
  or amnesia after as a result of a concussion. Convulsions- of
  a spinal origin, from head injury, concussions, and from injuries
  and wounds in fingers, soles, and palms; and from tetanus. Crushed
  and mashed fingers and toes (especially the tips), slammed in
  a door, window, or crushed under a great weight; injury to nails
  especially at the matrix and torn off nails; injuries in the palm
  and sole with intolerable pain; injury to palms and soles
  with deep pain.

• Faintness caused by the shock of an injury with intolerable
  nerve pains and inflammation, from lacerations, deep wounds, stab
  and gunshot wounds, with shooting pains which shoots up from the
  injury. Male genital injuries.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < cold air, fog, damp and cold weather,
before a storm, stuffy, heated room, movement, slightest touch,
pressure, 6-10 p.m., in the dark.

Better from > bending or leaning head backward,
keeping still.

The remedy interactions for
Hypericum perforatum

Antidoted by: ARS, CHAM, LED. Compatible: ARN.

Ledum palustre
(marsh tea, wild rosemary)
30c:

• Puncture Wounds especially in soles and palms; needles,
  pins, nails and stab wounds from sharp pointed objects; wounded
  parts become cold, puffy, pale, mottled, with very little bleeding
  and are very sensitive to touch and better from cold
  compresses; to prevent tetanus take 30c immediately.

• Black eye with contused wound, bloodshot or bruised and
  caused by a soft object, with pain in the eyeball itself.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and
circumstances which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate
(make better) the person and their symptoms. Critically
important in choosing a remedy:

Worse from < heat, warm bed, stove, wearing too many
clothes, movement when walking, motion of joints, evening, night,
touch, injury.

Better> ice cold applications and baths for ailments
(especially soaking feet in cold water), cold dry weather, cool
air, at rest, lying on face.

The remedy
interactions for
Ledum palustre

Antidoted by: CAMPH, RHUS-T.

It antidotes: APIS, COLCH, HYPER.

Compatible: LYC.

Mercurius solubilis
(quicksilver) 6c, 9c, 12c:

• Dental Problems This is an amazing remedy when taken at the
  first sign of dental discomfort or pain, to either cure the problem
  or prevent further development until you can get to the dentist if
  necessary; take Mercurius-Sol 6c 2-3 times daily as needed.

• Rheumatism and Arthritis with severe pain that is
  pressing and acute especially at night which drives them out of bed,
  and with great sensitivity to cold; in large joints, knees,
  legs, feet, upper limbs; with stiffness in hands and knees;
  tearing pain in legs; sub-acute arthritis; with sweating; worse from
  sweating, damp wet weather, warmth, motion, and at night in bed. Pain-
  aching in joints of extremities that drives them out of bed
  at night; tearing pain in joints in the evening and at night in bed,
  worse from warmth of bed; pain is gnawing and worse from damp
  weather; chronic inflammation of knees and tearing pain.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < weather changes, extreme temperatures,
wet weather, humid, rainy, on becoming cold, least draft, night.

Better> dry heat, warm air, dry weather, during the
day, morning, after lying down, darkness, tobacco.

The remedy interactions for
Mercurius solubilis

Antidoted by: ARS, ASAF, AUR, BELL, BRY, CALAD, CARB-V,
CHIN, CLEM, CON, CUPR, DAPH, DULC, FERR, HEP, HYDR, HYOS, IOD,
IRIS, KALI-I, LYC, MAG-M, MEZ, NIT-AC, NUX-V, OP, RUTA, SARS, SEP,
SPIG, STAPH, STRAM, SULPH, TER, THUJ, VALER.

Incompatible: PHYT, SIL (too soon before or after).

It Antidotes: ANT-C, ANT-T, ARG-N, ARS, ASAF, AUR,
BAR-C, BELL, CALAD, CHIN, COP, CUPR, DULC, LACH, MAG-C, MANG,
MERC-C, MEZ, NIT-AC, OP, PHYT, PLAN, PODO, RHUS-T, SARS, SULPH,
THUJ, VALER, VIOL-T.

Compatible: CHAM, CAUST.

Natrum muriaticum
(table salt) 12c, 30c:

• Ill-effects of toxicity from mining.

• Migraine headaches with stunning and stupefying pain on
  waking in the morning, like a hangover; bursting and splitting
  headache, with nausea during headache, head feels stuffed and
  congested, can be preceded by tingling and or numbness of nose, lips
  and tongue.

• Cold sores are burning and puffy, and pearl like
  blisters on lips, usually the middle of the upper or lower
  lip, and mouth feels very dry, especially when stressed. Hay
  fever eyes are watery, bruised feeling; violent sneezing, watery
  nasal discharge; cough makes eyes water more; depressed, touchy. Claustrophobia
  and agoraphobia, and are prone to feelings of suffocation.

• Shell Shock and neurasthenia with chronic underlining
  emotional stress and heavy with hidden grief and disappointment;
  retentiveness of all kinds, physically, mentally and emotionally;
  dwells and mulls about the past; ailments from degradation or
  embarrassment of any kind; anxiety alternating with indifference.

• Hiccups that are violent in hysterical cases.

• Foot Pain extending to tibia; burning pain while walking;
  stitching pain in heel with itching, rhythmical stitching in foot,
  stitching pain in big toe sudden, while sitting, with smarting;
  tearing pain in big toe while standing and walking; in achilles
  tendon.

• Weakness of knees and extremities in the morning; in feet
  while standing still, better lying, walking and sitting.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < sympathy, weeping, when consoled,
sunrise to sunset, morning, 10-11 a.m., after eating, heat, sun,
summer, sea air, damp, stormy weather, thunderstorm, spring,
heights.

Better from > open air cold, when alone, lying down,
lying on right side, continual movement.

The remedy
interactions for
Natrum muriaticum

Antidoted by: ARS, CAMPH, NUX-V, PHOS, SEP.

It Antidotes: AGN, ALUM, APIS, ARG-N, CHIN, QUIN.

Compatible: EUP-PER, IGN; before- SEP, THUJ; after-
CALC-P, FERR-P, KALI-M, KALI-P, KALI-S, NAT-S.

Chronic of: APIS, CAPS, BRY, IGN.

Petroleum
(crude rock-oil) 9c:

• Sickness from petrol fumes, gas exhaust.

• Travel and Motion Problems: Motion sickness in cars
  and on boats with nausea, vomiting and headaches; swinging-like
  vertigo on rising. Seasickness with nausea, cold sweats,
  giddiness, vomiting, mouth waters, vertigo on rising, worse from
  petrol fumes, gas exhaust, passive motion, and riding in cars or
  ships, better eating. Poor travelers with aversion to
  the prospect of a journey.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < passive motion, riding in cars or ships,
cold, winter, dampness, before and during thunder storms, mental
states, while with strangers, eating.

Better from > warm air, dry weather, lying with head
high.

The remedy
interactions for
Petroleum

Antidoted by: ACON, COCC, NUX-V, PHOS.

It antidotes: ACON, NIT-AC, PLB, SULPH; lead poisoning.

Phosphorus
(phosphate rock) 12c, 30c:

• Ailments from electric shocks, from cattle prods,
  being struck by lightning.

• Toxic Poisoning from chemical fumes, chloroform, and
  turpentine, with panting and gasping for air.

• Shortness of breath difficulty breathing with rapid, short,
  superficial breath and oppression of chest; with gasping; with
  palpitations; oppression of chest; with gasping. Hypersensitive
  to strong odors of chemicals and gases. Coughs and headaches
  from strong odors; sinusitis; very sensitive to gas fumes. Vertigo
  and dizziness from toxic fumes, gas fumes or odors of flowers.

• Hemorrhage profuse bleeding from any orifices of body
  (including nose, chest and bladder) and wounds; blood does not
  coagulate; wounds bleed freely; spitting of blood, bright red, dark,
  streaked, uncoagulated; from stab wounds. Nosebleeds
  recurrent and profuse bleeding that flows freely with
  non-coagulating blood. Dehydration.

• Voice Loss from prolonged taking; weakness or paralysis of
  vocal cords. Laryngitis with very painful larynx,
  worse speaking, evening and cold air; rawness, sore; sore trachea;
  sensitive to pressure, touch, with constriction and irritation of
  larynx. Hoarseness husky, bass, rough, deep, nasal;
  chronic hoarseness from talking and overuse of voice; worse in
  evening, during nasal coryza, and when crying.

• Coughs with irritation in chest, and larynx irritation with
  rawness, ticking, sticking and scratching and constriction in larynx
  at night during sleep; coughing when talking especially loudly;
  coughing with congestion of lungs.

• Cholera diarrhea during an epidemic.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and
circumstances which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate
(make better) the person and their symptoms. Critically
important in choosing a remedy:

Worse from < electrical changes, during thunder,
drenching rain, twilight, cold, winter, left-side, when alone,
walking on rough and uneven ground.

Better from > rubbing, massage, sympathy, eating, ice
cream, sympathy, sleeping, even short nap, lying on the right
side, in the dark, warmth.

The remedy
interactions for
Phosphorus

Antidoted by: ARG-N, ARS, CALC, COFF, MEZ, NUX-V, SEP,
TER.

Incompatible: CAUST & should not precede or follow
CAUST; coffee, wine.

It Antidotes: BRY, CALC, CAMPH, IOD, MEZ, NAT-M, NUX-V,
PETR, RUMX, STANN, TAB, TER; turpentine, chloroform.

Compatible: CIST, LYC, MAG-C.

Chronic of: ALL-CEP.

Ruta graveolens
(rue-bitterwort) 6c, 12c:

• Sprains with lameness after an ankle sprain; sprained with
  dislocated feeling; foot turns under from weak ankle.

• Strains and complaints are often brought on from straining
  the part; over lifting heavy weights, strains in weight-lifters,
  overtraining or overexertion of parts but principally confined to
  parts that are of a tendinous character; of aponeurotic fibers and
  white fibrous tissue; of the flexor tendons especially; flexor
  tendons that are overtrained by exertion.

• Bruises that go away slowly and leave a hardened spot;
  thickening of periosteum; a knotty nodular condition it remains
  sore; slow repair; a lump in the periosteum that has existed for
  months or years; sensitive and sore and nodular.

• Eye Injury if surrounding tissue is more injured or whole
  eye looks inflamed.

• Overexertion on the picket line for too many hours.
  Ailments of sore legs and weakness after walking.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < cold, wet weather, straining muscles,
exertion, ascending and descending stairs, when at rest, while
lying down (especially when the pains that are sharp, stinging,
tearing in the nerves), lying on painful part, sitting with
pressure on edge, stooping.

Better from > warmth, heat, moving and walking about
indoors, lying on back, rubbing.

The remedy interactions
for
Ruta graveolens

Antidoted by: CAMPH.

It Antidotes: MERC.

Compatible: ARN. Acute of: CALC-FLUOR.

Silica
(flint, silicic oxide) 9c,
12c, 30c:
The “homeopathic surgeon,” promotes explosion of pus,
splinters, glass, fish bones, nettles, needles, thorns, bullets.

• Broken bones (fractures) that are slow to repair.

• Reopening of old wounds and scars.

• Injuries to coccyx from a fall with painful soreness.

Modalities:
are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < cold, extremes of hot and cold weather,
change of weather, from warm to cold weather, after a bath,
getting feet wet, uncovering.

Better from > warmth, warm weather, summer, wet or
humid weather, indoor air; hot bath, wrapping up head, magnetism,
profuse urination.

The remedy
interactions for
Silica

Antidoted by: ARG-N, CAMPH, FL-AC, HEP, SANG.

Incompatible: MERC & do not follow with or be
followed by.

It Antidotes: DAPH, HEP, MERC-C, SABAD, SABAL, SULPH.

Compatible: LYC. Chronic of: HEP, IGN, PULS,
BELL.

Staphysagria
(palmated larkspur) 30c:

Anxiety/Fear/Phobias: in the victim, be they a prisoner,
hostage, or exploited in any way. The trauma of these states of
inhumane treatment and violation can manifest as indignation
emotionally and physically with many ailments caused by anger, be it
silent, suppressed or violent. There can be fear of losing ones job,
of poverty, loss of social position, of being murdered, of being
falsely accused and imprisonment, of losing self control. They can be
an oppressed and persecuted minority or the exploited in any
way. They have been truly betrayed. Their indignation is so
pent that it becomes violence. When they finally explode there can be
physical violence towards others, or hurling and breaking things, or
self injury and self-mutilation.

Nervousness and anxiety from violence, anger and insult; there is
guilt, shame and humiliation which tend to be suppressed; the military
or any other force elements are indicated. From intense Ailments
from Anger: that is pent-up, wounded, silent and suppressed, with
indignation, embarrassment, shame and buried resentment; violent
anger; ailments of paralysis, one sided paralysis, trembling and
faintness from anger; angry from a cough; with weeping from pain; with
a pale, livid, flushed face; with themselves and about their own
mistakes; about trifles; when angry they throw things away; anger in
the morning; insanity from anger; quarrelsome without real anger.

• Stab Wounds- wounds caused by sharp instruments- stab,
  puncture, cuts [30c as needed].

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < mental and emotional upsets from anger,
indignation, grief, mortification, humiliation, sexual
intercourse, sexual excesses, sexual or physical abuse, early
morning, 3 p.m., waking, after sleep, walking, loss of fluids,
dehydration, touch of affected parts, bending sideways.

Better from > rest, warmth and heat, warm bed, after
breakfast, or a meal, light.

The remedy
interactions for
Staphysagria

Antidoted by: AMBR, CAMPH.

Incompatible: RAN-B also before or after.

It Antidotes: AMBR, COLOC, MERC, PH-AC, OP, THUJ.

Chronic of: COLOC.

Sulphur
(sublimated sulphur) 9c, 12c:

• Ailments in miners. Asthma and Coughs in miners. Cannot
  breath, with constriction of chest and bronchial concomitant, must
  have windows open. In the evening or night and may come on during
  sleep. Periodic attacks, every 8 days. That are alternating with
  gout or skin eruptions.

• Overexertion on the picket line for too many hours.
  Ailments of burning soles of feet and weakness of lower limbs after
  walking.

• Skin Disorders Red orifices and burning skin and pains, and
  rough skin. Dry, red, scaly, itchy patches that bleed after
  scratching. Very Itchy with biting, burning, crawling.
  Itching can be with or without an eruption, especially in people who
  often feel too hot; itch at night; in heavy drinkers and alcoholics.
  Skin eruptions are dry, scaling, crusty, scabby and itching with
  bleeding after scratching. Eruptive skin disease with painful or
  painless eruptions. Rashes on the face, chest, armpits, extremities,
  upper limbs, elbows, thighs. Rashes are worse scratching and
  washing. Eruptions from chicken-pox, measles, impetigo. Pellagra.
  Fungus eruptions. Scabies. Bedsores. Ringworm. Leprosy. Lupus
  vulgaris. Prairie itch.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < heat of any kind, in a warm bed, warm
room, wet weather, stormy weather, extreme cold, dread of bathing,
touch, pressure, lying on left-side, sneezing, staying in one
position, standing still, sustained effort, water and bathing,
hunger, delay in eating, morning, 11 a.m., night.

Better from > open air, must have windows open, dry
warm weather, darkness, lying on the right side, lying on affected
part, movement, scratching, after perspiring, sugar.

The remedy
interactions for
Sulphur

Antidoted by: ACON, ARG-N, BRY, CAMPH, CHIN, FERR, HYDR,
MERC, PETR, PULS, RHUS-T, SEP, SIL, THUJ.

Incompatible: RAN-B, black tea.

It Antidotes: ACON, ALOES, ALUMN, BRY, CALC, CANTH,
CHIN, COP, GUA, HYDR, IOD, MERC, NIT-AC, OLND, PHYT, RHUS-T, SEP,
THUJ. Compatible: CALC (before or during, but do no
follow), CALC-P, CHAM, LYC, MANG, MED, NUX-V, SARS.

Symphytum officinale
(comfrey) 9c, 12c:

• Blows from blunt instruments like billy clubs, that
  cause black and blue marks; injury to hard parts that are
  penetrating to perineum and bones.

• Eye injury with pain in eye ball; trauma from a blunt
  instrument; eye bruises especially to the eye ball without swelling;
  black eye.

• Fractures to speed healing after the bone has been set; and
  can be used to be able to know if the bone is broken give 30c and if
  it relieves the pain then the bone is broken, and if it does not
  relieve pain the bone is not broken. Injury to hard parts. Trauma to
  bones that slow to heal.

The remedy
interactions for
Symphytum officinale

It Antidotes: CANTH.

Remedies for
Uranium and Radiation Workers

Uranium nitricum
(nitrate of uranium) 12c:

Uranium poisoning. Great emaciation, weakness, debility and
general edema. Excessive thirst and appetite. Dry mucous membranes and
skin. Nausea and vomiting. Pain is generally burning internally,
tearing away. Perspiration odor is sweetish. Heat flushes. Swelling of
glands. Liver degeneration. High blood pressure. Bronchitis with
copious mucous expectoration and much emaciation; chronic colds; cough
with pus-like discharge from left nostril. Headaches in temples,
forehead, above left eye; pain in occiput in the evening and morning
on waking up; with heaviness in morning on waking; brain pain in
afternoon; pain from fasting; neuralgic pain temporal bone; sensation
as if blood is flowing to head, and coldness with a headache; vertigo
and dizziness with exhaustion that is worse in the evening. Sleepiness
with extreme lethargy, especially when rising from bed, during menses;
insomnia with restlessness, with heat and shivering, waking
frequently; dreams are vivid, busy, and of fire.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < night, on left side, walking
(w/headache), sleep, after sleep, getting up, during menses.

Better from > open air, deep breathing, continued
motion, hot bath, lying down, pressure.

Radium bromatum
(radium bromide) 12c:

For the ill effects of radium and radiation burns, and x-rays.
Great weakness; muscular weakness. Severe aching pains all over, with
restlessness, better moving about. Skin ailments from burns; itching
all over body; skin affections generally, acne rosacea, eczema,
psoriasis, scleroderma, birthmarks, moles, ulcers, cancers,
epithelioma; small pimples; erythema and dermatitis, with itching,
burning, swelling and redness; necrosis and ulceration; burning of
skin, as if on fire; x-ray caused dermatitis. Chest tightness, with
pain alternating with indigestion and stuffed up feeing. Persistent
cough from tickling in throat; dry, spasmodic cough. Chronic rheumatic
arthritis. Late in appearance of symptoms.Ulcers due to radium burns,
and that take a long time to heal. Ailments from burns. Ulcers due to
marked increase in the poly-morphonuclear neutrophils. Rheumatism and
gout. Lowered blood pressure. Severe pain over right eye, spreading
back to occiput and to vertex; head feels heavy; frontal headache;
both eyes ache.

Modalities:

are the very important modifying influences and circumstances
which aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make better) the
person and their symptoms. Critically important in choosing
a remedy:

Worse from < getting up, warmth of bed, at night,
washing, shaving, smoking, 3 a.m., 4 a.m., 7 a.m., 11 a.m., noon,
night, stretching.

Better from > lying down, after sleep, pressure, open
air, cold air, continued motion, hot bath, wet-warm wet
application, cold drinks, eating.

The remedy
interactions for
Radium bromatum

Antidotes: RHUS-V; TELL.

Remedies for
Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)

• APIS The affected fingers swell, sting and feel hot.

• ARNICA In acute cases to prevent RSI from straining and
  violent motion.

• CALCAREA FLUORICA RSI and
  Carpal Tunnel Syndrome with hard, boney growths on joint; fistula
  caused by the injury.

• CAUSTICUM: RSI and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome if tendons feel
  contracted with loss of grip and sensation; shortening of tendons;
  writers cramp; drawing pain in hand joints and palms; paralysis of
  hands; thumbs drawn inward; painful numbness of thumbs; [6c 3 times
  daily for 2 weeks.

• HYPERICUM: RSI and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome with inflammation
  of the nerves from overexertion or repetitious motion; numb hands;
  tension in forth finger; tearing pain in thumb; sprained wrist on
  motion; wrist pain in the morning in bed; neuralgic upper arm pain;
  trembling of left upper limbs; cutting pain in finger tips;
  fuzziness in the hands; formication in hand in the morning.

• RHUS-TOX: RSI from over-strained and
  injuries muscles which leads to an inflammatory condition and are
  more painful after rest and in cold damp weather, better from gentle
  movement and warmth; affected fingers swell; and Carpal Tunnel
  Syndrome with sprain, drawing pain in joints and rheumatic stiffness
  after exertion.

• RUTA: RSI and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from repetitive motion
  injury to wrist; wrist action especially in typists and computer
  keyboard work, or continuous videos game playing (including in
  children), also cramps in musicians, piano or violin players;
  overtrained muscles from overexertion or repetitious motion leading
  to inflammatory condition, especially if area feel hot to touch;
  pain in fingers and in thumb when lifting; wrist and hand pain,
  sprains, spasms, rheumatic, broken, paralysis, sprained, cramps,
  dislocated feeling, lameness, stiffness; ganglion on back of wrist;
  bruised pain and chronic joint inflammation; chronic articular
  rheumatism of wrists and other small joints; bursitis of hand
  joints; drawing pain in fingers, elbow when extending arm, and upper
  arm biceps.



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© Erika Price, DHM. 2000