HOMEOPATHIC RESEARCH

Treatment: The best applications for chapped hands or lips are (1) arnicated glycerine (forty or fifty drops of tincture of Arnica to one ounce of glycerine), (2) Calendula cerate (3) pure glycerine, or (4) coarse honey.

-JAHR Georg Heinrich Gottlieb: Medicinal treatment: Carbo vegetabilis Is in general the most appropriate medicine, but an experienced physician should be consulted. Gums, scurvy of the - canker of the mouth. (stomacace): Description of disease : Offensive smell in the mouth, with a glutinous bloody discharge from the gums, which are hot, red, soft, spongy, very sensitive, retracted from the teeth, and subsequently ulcerated along their margins. Medicinal treatment: Carbo vegetabilis If the gums bleed much, or if they are sore and ulcerated. Dose. -Two grains in a dessertspoonful of water every four or six hours. Mercurius solubilis Is the most prominent remedy when the teeth are loose and ready to fall out, and the gums are fungous, livid, and ulcerated. Dose. -As Carbo Vegetabilis. Nux vomica Sometimes useful in very bad cases with putrid and painful swelling of the gums. Dose. -Two drops, repeated as Carbo Vegetabilis. Accessory treatment The mouth should be fre...

-JAHR Georg Heinrich Gottlieb Gum boil Description of ailment: A small boil situated on the gums or interior of the mouth, attended with considerable pain, heat, and tenderness to the touch. It very generally terminates in the formation of matter, then comes to a head and discharges; frequently caused by a chill, a decayed tooth, or generally ill-health. Medicinal treatment Belladonna If there is great inflammation and pain. Dose. -Two drops in a dessertspoonful of water every three or four hours. Hepar sulphur Should be given to promote suppuration, when matter has formed. Dose. -Two grains in a dessertspoonful of water every six hours. Mercurius solubilis May be first administered, or may be used alternately with either Belladonna or Hepar, before or after matter has formed. dose. -Two grains in a dessertspoonful of water every four or six hours, or alternated with Bell. or Hep. With that interval of time between the doses. Accessory treatment The face should be ti...

-JAHR Georg Heinrich Gottlieb Gout Description of disease : Pains in the joints, with inflammatory or chronic cold swelling, and symptoms of deranged digestion. The pains are generally severe, and the inflammation mostly attacks the smaller joints, particularly the first joint of the great toe, which becomes red, hot, and swollen. It sometimes suddenly changes from one location to another, and returns at intervals, various joints or parts becoming affected after repeated attacks. Gout is mostly an hereditary disease, coming on without any evident external cause, generally preceded by disorder of the digestive organs, and accompanied by a plethoric state of the system. Medicinal treatment Aconitum napellus If there is considerable fever, with great sensibility to the touch, or throbbings in the foot. Dose. -Two drops in a dessertspoonful of water every two, three, or four hours, according to the severity of the symptoms. Bryonia alba If the pains if the pains are worse when...

-JAHR Georg Heinrich Gottlieb Medicinal treatment : Belladonna and Mercurius sollubilis Will generally afford relief in simple cases. Dose. -Three drops of Belladonna alternately with two grains of Mercurius Sol. (each in a dessertspoonful of water) every three or four hours. Accessory treatment : See under Catarrhal Fever. -The glands should be gently rubbed with warm sweet oil, or camphorated oil, and kept well covered with flannel. Care should be taken not to get wet or damp, and to observe a spare diet.

-JAHR Georg Heinrich Gottlieb Vertigo Giddiness from congestion of blood to the head: Symptoms. -See under Determination of Blood to the Head. Medicinal treatment Aconitum napellus May be taken alternately with Belladonna, or is especially useful if the giddiness is felt on raising the head when lying or stooping, or there is much redness of the face. Dose. -Two drops in a dessertspoonful of water every one to four hours, or alternately with Belladonna at those intervals of time. Belladonna See Aconitum. -Or if there is partial loss of consciousness, staggering, or fullness and violent pressure in the forehead. Dose. -See Aconitum. Nux vomica If during or after meals, or when walking in the open air, or with fainting, or with whirling of the head and danger of falling. Dose. -As Aconitum. Accessory treatment See under Determination of Blood to the Head. -The free use of cold water daily is indispensable, together with regular exercise in the fresh air. Giddiness f...

-JAHR Georg Heinrich Gottlieb Common-sense eating for indigestion including acidity, bad breath, flatulence, gastritis, headache, heartburn, pain after meals (Common-sense eating series) Flatulence Symptoms. -Fullness in the abdomen; rumbling in the bowels; severe pain; accumulation or copious discharge of wind - a symptom of Indigestion. Medicinal treatment Carbo vegetabilis When it arises from taking the smallest quantity of food. Dose.-Two grains every three or four hours in acute cases, otherwise three times a day. China officinalis If flatulency arises from flatulent food, or after eating fat meats or fruits, with much distension. Dose. -Two drops repeated as Carbo Veg. Nux vomica If there is abundant flatulence, or if it is worse after eating and drinking. Dose.-As China. Pulsatilla pratensis Is a very efficacious remedy, especially when the symptom arises from fat or rich food, pastry, etc. Accessory treatment See under Indigestion. -Eat slowly, and chew th...