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Some useful Homeopathic remedies – Part 46.

 CISTUS CANADENSIS.
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It is a deep acting constitutional remedy and is derived from the plant Rockrose.

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It suits subjects who are prone to cold and to those who are extremely susceptible to cold.

It is useful in subjects who have enlargement and suppuration of glands.

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It is useful in ear discharges with enlargement of cervical glands. It is useful in catarrhal conditions, where there is a thick and yellowish offensive catarrh.

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It is useful eczemas around the ears.

It is useful in healing old deep-seated ulcers around the shin or the ankles.

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It is a useful remedy in pyorrhea.

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CINCHONA.

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This remedy is derived from the Yellow Peruvian bark.

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It is a specific remedy for debility resulting from the loss of vital fluids, hemorrhages, exhausting diarrheas and after bouts of malaria.

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It is useful in gall stone colic, where pains occur after eating at regular hours each day, worse at night and better after bending double.

It is useful in neuralgic pains aggravated by the slightest touch, but ameliorated by deep pressure.

It is useful in intermittent fevers, such as malaria, where the fever recurs in paroxysms, 2 to 3 hours each day, recurring every 7th or 14th day, or every other night, associated with sweats all over at night.

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This remedy is also useful in excessive belching, which gives no relief and aggravates after eating fruits.

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CINA.

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IT IS A USEFUL REMEDY IN WORM INFESTATION.

It is derived from the Wormseed, Artemisia contra.

This is essentially a children’s remedy.

The child is big, fat, rosy, scrofulous corresponding to conditions of intestinal problems, such as worms.

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It is a suitable remedy is for irritability of temper in children, variable appetite and grinding of the teeth.

This remedy is suitable, whenever, the child is hungry cross and wants to be rocked.

The remedy is useful when the child desires many things and does not wish to touched, is extremely cross in nature, desires many things but rejects everything.

It is useful in children who constantly digs and scratches his ears.

This remedy is useful, when the patient desires to bore the nose all the time and wishes to rub and pick the nose.

This remedy is useful when the patient feels hungry immediately after a meal.

It is useful to correct the hyper-acidity with epigastric pain.

It is useful for children who have an excessive craving for sweets.

It is a useful remedy when the child has a bloated abdomen and colic.

It is a useful remedy when the child sleeps on the hands and knees and when the child cries out and wakes up frightened.
TIPS ABOUT CINA…

When there are papillae on the tip of the tongue, the child has worms; CINA is the remedy.
Dr. Edwards.
The most careful analysis of clinical experience has demonstrated that CINA is the most powerful for the elimination of round worms.
Dr. Farrington, M.D.
CINA is a great remedy for Xanthopsia. There is a yellow tine imparted to the landscape and the objects looked at, are effects perhaps most comparable to that of looking through yellow glasses.

Dr. N. M. Choudhuri, M.D.
I have repeatedly killed tapeworm with CINA, as well as the lumbrici and ascarides.

Dr. Bayes.

Cina is a very useful remedy in Helminthiasis. Of course, we as allopathic physicians have several medicines, such as; Mebendazole, Albendazole, etc for this problem. But, Cina has that knack of getting rid of the worms and also helps combat certain behavioral problems in young children with Pica (the tendency to eat indigestible things). It is also useful in certain cases of nocturnal enuresis in children.

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CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA.

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It is useful to allay the fears in patients who dream of impending evil.

It is useful in rheumatic subjects with ovarian irritation. It has a wide action upon the cerebrospinal, muscular system, the uterus and ovaries.

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It is useful when muscular and cramp like pains prevail in every part of the body, in neurotic patients.

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It is useful in migraine.

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It is useful in deep-seated throbbing or shooting pains in the eyes with photophobia to artificial light.

It is useful in patients who complain of numbness of the left arm and the patient feels that the heart’s action is likely to stop suddenly.

It is useful when the spine is sensitive with stiffness and contraction in the neck and the back.

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It is useful in Inter-costal rheumatism and in rheumatic pain in the muscles of the back and the neck.

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It is extremely useful in the stiffness in the tendo-achilles.

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It is a useful remedy in insomnia.

It is useful when the patients are worse in the morning, in the cold, during menstruation.

It is also useful when the patients are better from warmth and eating.

TIPS ABOUT CIMICIFUGA…

CIMICIFUGA is useful during pregnancy as a preparation for labor and numerous patients have derived great benefit from its administration. It acts best when given occasionally in high potency.
Dr. Ruddock, M.D. Dr. Nixon, M.R.C.S.

CIMICIFUGA is only second to Pulsatilla in amenorrhoea specially suppressed from cold or emotion.

Dr. Cowperthwaite, M.D.

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CICUTA VIROSA.

THIS REMEDY ACTS MOST PROFOUNDLY ON THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM.

This remedy is derived from the plant called as the Water Hemlock and was proved by Dr. Hahnemann.

It is a very useful remedy in children with spasms in the body with distortion of the whole body. It also suits children who have an abnormal appetite for charcoal, chalk and indigestible things.

This remedy acts most profoundly on the Central Nervous System.

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It is useful in Convulsions with violent movements, delirium, hiccups and epilepsy.

It is almost a specific remedy for Cerebrospinal meningitis.

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It is almost the first remedy for Tetanus.

It is useful in cases where convulsions that occur after a concussion.

This remedy is useful for staring and squinting after a head injury.

It is useful if there are spasms and cramping of muscles of the nape of the neck with spasmodic drawing of the head.

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It is useful in Trismus (spasm of the jaw muscles).

It is also useful in spasms of the esophagus where the patient is unable to swallow.

It is useful for pectoral muscle spasms, which make the chest tight.

It is useful in Ophisthotonus (spasms of the nape of the neck where the back is bent backwards like an arch.)

The patient displays skin symptoms like eczema with a lemon colored crust and suppressed eruptions can cause brain disease.

This remedy is useful in Barber’s itch and certain forms of eczema that affects the head

TIPS ABOUT CICUTA VIROSA…

Dr Baker of Moravia cured, during an epidemic of Cerebrospinal meningitis, 60 cases of all degrees without a loss of a single case; He thinks CICUTA VIROSA as near a specific for this disease can be.

Dr. Nash, M.D.

CICUTA competes with BELLADONNA for spasms or tetanus caused by splinters in the skin or under the nails.
Dr. H. A. Roberts, M.D.

This remedy is useful as an adjunct to control epileptic seizures. I do not know how many allopathic physicians would dare try it in cases of Tetanus or Cerebro-spinal Meningitis. But, if the patients were moribund and not responding to therapy in these two indications, it would be worth trying this remedy.

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CHININUM SULPHURICUM.

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It is an excellent remedy, which when used in higher potency cures suppressed Malaria.

It is useful whenever there is a marked periodicity of the symptoms and there is spinal sensitiveness.

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It is useful in acute articular rheumatism and Poly-articular gout.

It is useful in chronic interstitial Nephritis.

It is useful in Retro-bulbar Neuritis.

It is useful in Anemia with Poly-nucleated leucocytes.

It is useful when the urine is turbid, slimy with excess uric acid and abundance of chlorides.

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CHOLESTERINUM.

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This is a useful remedy in Cancer of the Liver and in chronic Hepatic enlargement. It is useful in Jaundice and Gall stones.

GOLDEN TIPS FROM THE MASTERS…

CHOLESTERINUM is said to be almost a specific for Gall stone colic.

Dr. A.D.T. Pulford, M.D.

CHOLESTERINUM 30 to 200 has a beneficial effect on many patients with Coronary insufficiency and may be justified as a prescription when other remedies fail or there are no clear-cut indications for another remedy.

Dr. D. M. Foubister, M.B., Ch.B., D.C.H.

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CHIMAPHILA UMBRELLATA.

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This remedy principally acts on the kidneys and the genito-urinary tract.

It is useful in Hepatic and Renal dropsies.

It is useful in acute or chronic bladder catarrh.

It is useful when the urine is scanty, ropy and loaded with muco-purulent sediment.

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It is useful in benign enlargement of the prostate.

It is useful when there is an urging to urinate, when there is burning and scalding during urination.

It is useful in acute prostatitis when the patient is unable to urinate without standing with the feet wide apart and the body inclined forward.

Some tips from the masters…

No medicine has been so serviceable for me in cases remarkable for the great amount of muco-purulent cystitis in the absence of pain as CHIMAPHILA.
Dr. Hale, M.D.

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CHELLIDONIUM MAJUS.

It is derived from a plant, called as Celandine.

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It is a prominent liver remedy and is useful for jaundice.

It is useful in all ailments that are brought about with the change in weather.

It is useful in Hydrocoele.

It is useful when there is a bad odor from the mouth, when there is a bitter taste. It is useful when there is nausea and vomiting that is, temporarily relieved by eating. This remedy is also useful when the tongue is thick, coated and yellow.

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It is useful for jaundice due to hepatic obstruction. It is useful in Gallstones.

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This remedy is useful in constipation, when the stools are hard like sheep’s dung, pasty and may alternate with diarrhea. This remedy is useful in burning and itching of the anus.

This remedy is useful in right-sided migraine, worse from warmth and motion and better from vomiting bile.

This remedy is useful in ailments, which are associated with constant pain under the inner angle of the scapula, with a desire for hot drinks that are vomited, as soon as the weather changes.

TIPS ABOUT CHELLIDONIUM MAJUS…

White Leucorrhoea that leaves yellow spots on clothes: No drug has it but CHELLIDONIUM.
Dr. Alberts. Lamar Dela Rosa, M.D.

My experience with CHELLIDONIUM in Pneumonia is that when the liver is implicated, and the right lung is affected, it will prove useful, if a yellow slimy diarrhea is found.
Dr. Hale, M.D.

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CHAMMOMILA.

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This remedy is derived from the plant, Matricaria Chammomila. This remedy is useful in children who are peevish, restless and who suffer from colic.

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It is useful when the child is restless, wants many things and wants to be carried and petted constantly. It is also useful when the child is impatient, intolerant, spiteful and snappish.

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It is very useful in acute earache with swelling around the mastoid region that drives the patient frantic.

The remedy is useful when the child is sensitive to all smells with colds and does not sleep because of the cold.

The peculiarity of this remedy is that ONE CHEEK IS HOT AND ONE CHEEK IS COLD.

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It is extremely useful in toothache, worse after a warm drink, worse from coffee at night.

This remedy is also useful when the patient has a foul eructation with nausea after coffee and has an aversion to warm drinks. The abdomen is distended with griping in the navel with a flatulent colic.

This remedy is useful in duodenitits.

The remedy is useful in children who have hot, green; fetid like chopped white eggs with yellow mucous this remedy is useful in diarrhea dentition.

The remedy is useful in hoarseness and rawness of the larynx, with rattling in the child’s chest.

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It is useful for stiffness in the neck muscles.

It is useful in violent rheumatic pains that disturb the sleep.

It is useful when there is drowsiness with moaning, weeping and wailing in sleep.

The remedy suits patients who are worse by heat, anger, open air, wind and night.

The patients feel better from being carried and in warm wet weather.

TIPS ABOUT CHAMMOMILA…

CHAMMOMILA: For muscular and nerve pain; valuable especially in the aftermath of injury in children; will often have more of a sedative effect than CODEINE.
Dr. C. C. Boericke, M.D.

Asthmatic attack induced by anger: CHAMMOMILA.
Dr. Krichbaum, M.D.

Remember that many patients seem oversensitive to pains and the remedy may be CHAMMOMILA, instead of Morphine.
Dr. Dewey, M.D.

CHAMMOMILA is a valuable remedy in labor; the pains shoot upwards and pass off down the inner sides of the thighs. The patient may be very cranky and orders the Doctor out of the room. It is also a useful remedy for postpartum pains when the patient has stood a great deal, is hypersensitive and worn out.
Homeopathic Recorder, August 32.

Convulsions coming on in a child after punishment may call loudly for CHAMMOMILA OR IGNATIA.

Bad effects of Narcotics: CHAMMOMILA AND ACETIC ACID.
Dr. Boericke, M.D.

CHAMMOMILA will stop the vomiting of Morphia in a few minutes.
Dr. Kent, M.D.

 

This is a magical remedy when children cry and scream in pain from middle ear infection or during dentition.