Diseases & conditions
The daily-practice index: each condition with its most-used remedies, drawn from the 344-remedy library. Not medical advice — a study and reference aid.
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Fever — sudden onset Common cold Hay fever Sinusitis Cough — dry Cough — loose Whooping-type cough Croup Sore throat Tonsillitis Asthma Heart — weakness & effort breathlessness Acidity & heartburn Gastric ulcer Nausea & vomiting Diarrhoea Constipation Colic Piles & anal fissure Liver & gall-bladder Jaundice Headache Migraine Vertigo Insomnia Anxiety & panic Shock, fright & grief Low mood Anger & indignation Injuries & bruises Fractures & bone healing Backache Rheumatic & joint pains Sciatica Eczema & chronic skin Warts Boils & abscesses Wounds & healing Bleeding Varicose veins Urinary tract infection Kidney stones Prostate Menstrual cramps Delayed menses Heavy menses & flooding Leucorrhoea Pregnancy nausea Labour & delivery Threatened miscarriage After-birth bleeding Breast troubles Menopause Children — colic & teething Worms Bed-wetting Earache Eye inflammation Toothache Dysentery Typhoid & low fevers Mumps-type gland swellings Sunstroke & heat Seasickness & travel sickness Hiccups Thrush & mouth ulcers
Fever — sudden onset
- Aconite — fright, dry cold wind, bounding pulse
- Belladonna — hot, red, throbbing, no sweat
- Ferrum phos — the soft flush of the first hours
- Gelsemium — drowsy, heavy-lidded, aching
Common cold
- Aconite — first stage, dry, anxious
- Allium cepa — burning nose, bland tears
- Euphrasia — burning tears, bland nose
- Nux vom — snuffling, irritable, chilly
- Pulsatilla — thick yellow discharge, gentle
Hay fever
- Allium cepa — burning coryza, bland eyes
- Euphrasia — burning eyes, bland nose
- Sabadilla — sneezing fits, itchy nose
- Arsenicum iod — hot, acrid, glandular
Sinusitis
- Kali bich — ropy mucus, pinpoint pain
- Silicea — chronic, chilly, slow
- Pulsatilla — thick yellow, changeable
- Mercurius — offensive, sweaty at night
- Belladonna — first stage, hot and red
Cough — dry
Cough — loose
- Antimonium tart — rattling, drowsy, can't raise it
- Ipecac — constant nausea, clean tongue
- Senega — tough mucus, sore chest walls
- Kali mur — white, stalled second stage
- Stannum — too weak to cough, sweet taste
Whooping-type cough
- Drosera — gagging paroxysms after midnight
- Cuprum — spasm and blue face at the end
- Corallium — machine-gun volleys, 11 p.m.–2 a.m.
- Coccus cacti — fine red threads of mucus
Croup
Sore throat
Tonsillitis
- Belladonna — acute, red, hot
- Hepar — quinsy, touchy, early pus
- Mercurius — offensive, night sweats
- Baryta carb — chronic, swollen glands
Asthma
Heart — weakness & effort breathlessness
- Crataegus — the tired heart of age
- Digitalis — slow, irregular, nauseated
- Cactus — iron band, left arm pain
- Adonis — fluttering with kidney trouble
- Convallaria — dropsied, better gentle motion
Acidity & heartburn
- Nux vom — irritable, stimulant-born
- Robinia — sour vomiting, worse starch and cheese
- Iris — sour burning with sick-headache
- Lycopodium — 4–8 p.m., bloating
- Carbo veg — gas, wants to be fanned
Gastric ulcer
- Arsenicum alb — burning, anxious, sipping
- Hydrastis — ropy, torpid, debilitated
- Phosphorus — craves ice water, bleeding
- Kali bich — punched-out, stringy
Nausea & vomiting
Diarrhoea
- Aloe — bearing-down, can't trust the sphincter
- Podophyllum — gushing at dawn, prolapse
- Arsenicum alb — burning, anxious, chilly, food-poisoning
- Croton — broken-dam yellow gush
- Veratrum alb — rice-water, cold sweat, cramps
- Gambogia — gushing with griping and hot sweat
Constipation
Colic
- Colocynthis — anger, better doubling and pressure
- Mag phos — better heat and pressure, radiating
- Dioscorea — better stretching backward
- Chamomilla — rage, hot cheek, better carrying
- Nux vom — spasmodic, irritable
Piles & anal fissure
- Aesculus — purple, dry, backaching
- Collinsonia — alternate with the bowels, prickling
- Hamamelis — bleeding, bruised veins
- Aloe — protrude like a bunch of grapes
- Paeonia — fissure burning like fire
- Ratanhia — fissure with splinter sensation
- Acidum muriaticum — protruding, blue, too weak to rise
Liver & gall-bladder
- Chelidonium — right scapula pain, food-better
- Carduus — engorged, worse lying left
- Chionanthus — blocked gall, clay stools
- Taraxacum — mapped tongue, chill after food
- Leptandra — black tarry stool, relief after
Jaundice
- Chelidonium — right scapula, coated yellow tongue
- Carduus — engorged sore liver
- Lycopodium — right side, flatulent
Headache
- Belladonna — throbbing, hot, worse light
- Glonoinum — surging waves, worse jarring
- Sanguinaria — right side, sleep relieves
- Spigelia — left eye, worse with the pulse
- Natrum mur — hammering, worse sun
- Iris — sick-headache, sour vomiting
Migraine
- Iris — sour burning vomit, worse fats
- Sanguinaria — right occiput to right eye
- Glonoinum — vascular surging
- Nux vom — bilious, irritable
Vertigo
Insomnia
- Coffea — excited ideas, acute senses
- Nux vom — after stimulants, waking 3 a.m.
- Ignatia — grief, sighing, wakes with a start
- Kali phos — brain-fag, anxious fatigue
- Arsenicum alb — midnight restlessness
Anxiety & panic
- Arsenicum alb — fear of death, midnight
- Aconite — sudden terror
- Gelsemium — anticipation, trembling
- Argentum nit — hurry, diarrhea before events
- Kali phos — anxious brain-fag
Shock, fright & grief
Low mood
- Aurum — proud despair, heart symptoms
- Natrum mur — silent grief, salt
- Sepia — indifference, better exercise
- Cimicifuga — gloomy, spine and neck pains
- Ignatia — acute grief
- Acidum phosphoricum — grey apathy after grief
Anger & indignation
- Chamomilla — rage, caprice, teething
- Nux vom — fiery, irritable
- Colocynthis — colic from indignation
- Staphysagria — swallowed insults, styes
- Anacardium — two wills, cursing
Injuries & bruises
Fractures & bone healing
Backache
Rheumatic & joint pains
Sciatica
- Colocynthis — better pressure and doubling
- Mag phos — heat and pressure, right side
- Rhus tox — stiff, better motion
- Arsenicum alb — burning, midnight restless
Eczema & chronic skin
- Sulphur — hot, red, itchy, hates bathing
- Graphites — sticky honey oozing, cracked
- Petroleum — winter-cracked, bleeding
- Psorinum — offensive, freezing, despairing
- Arsenicum alb — burning, anxious, chilly
- Mezereum — burning under chalky crusts
- Viola tricolor — crusted oozing face of the child
Warts
- Thuja — oily, fig-like
- Nitric acid — crack and bleed
- Causticum — on fingers, with paralysis
- Ant crud — hard, with gastric upset
Boils & abscesses
- Hepar — touchy, fast-suppurating
- Silicea — slow, chilly, won't heal
- Belladonna — first red stage
- Echinacea — recurrent, drowsy-foul
- Tarentula — blue-edged, septic tendency
Wounds & healing
Bleeding
- Hamamelis — dark venous ooze, piles
- Millefolium — after knocks, bright red
- Trillium — bright, sinks the patient
- Phosphorus — bright from every orifice
- Erigeron — bright with burning
- Secale — dark, cold, uncovered
Varicose veins
- Hamamelis — bruised, aching
- Aesculus — purple, backaching
- Calc fluor — knotted, hard
- Acidum fluoricum — old ulcers, cold-better
Urinary tract infection
- Cantharis — scalding, drop by drop
- Sarsaparilla — pain at the end of the stream
- Equisetum — tender bladder, bed-wetting
- Uva ursi — chronic mucous catarrh
- Mercurius — offensive, night sweats
- Benzoicum acid — strong-smelling, gouty
Kidney stones
- Berberis — radiating, bubbling colic
- Ocimum — right side, red sand
- Lycopodium — right kidney, 4–8 p.m.
- Pareira — kneels to pass, thigh pain
Prostate
- Sabal — the enlarged gland itself
- Chimaphila — urging against obstruction
- Conium — hard nodular, sexual depression
- Petroselinum — sudden irresistible urging
Menstrual cramps
- Viburnum — spasmodic, better pressure
- Mag phos — heat and pressure
- Cimicifuga — gloomy, neck and spine
- Pulsatilla — gentle, changeable, late
- Coffea — intolerable pain
Delayed menses
- Senecio — from cold, wet feet, emotion
- Pulsatilla — gentle, changeable
- Cimicifuga — with gloom and spine pain
- Caulophyllum — irregular with small joints
Heavy menses & flooding
- Sabina — bright clots, sacrum to pubis
- Trillium — bright, sinking at once
- Ustilago — dark clots, congested womb
- Secale — dark, cold, uncovered
- Phosphorus — bright, sympathetic
Leucorrhoea
Pregnancy nausea
Labour & delivery
- Caulophyllum — irregular, uncoordinated pains
- Cimicifuga — gloomy, rheumatic
- Gelsemium — trembling, anticipation
- Secale — weak, bearing-down after
Threatened miscarriage
- Sabina — bright clots, dragging
- Viburnum — spasm threatens
- Secale — dark bleeding, cold
- Caulophyllum — uncoordinated pains
After-birth bleeding
Breast troubles
- Phytolacca — hard, radiating, purple throat
- Bellis — bruised, deep
- Hepar — abscess forming
- Bryonia — hot, painful, still
Menopause
- Lachesis — hot, talkative, throat-intolerant
- Sepia — indifferent, better exercise
- Cimicifuga — gloomy, spine pains
- Sulphur — hot flushes, restless
- Amyl nitrosum — surging heat of the flush
Children — colic & teething
- Chamomilla — rage, one hot cheek, better carrying
- Colocynthis — better doubling and pressure
- Mag phos — heat and pressure
- Calc phos — slow dentition
- Kreosotum — teeth decay on arrival, acrid
- Borax — aphthae, dread of downward motion
Bed-wetting
- Equisetum — tender bladder, deep sleep
- Kreosotum — wets in profound sleep
- Causticum — paralytic weakness
- Belladonna — deep sleep, starts
Earache
- Chamomilla — rage, hot cheek, teething
- Belladonna — right ear, hot, red
- Pulsatilla — gentle, thick bland discharge
- Mercurius — offensive, sweaty night
- Hepar — sharp pain, chilly
Eye inflammation
- Euphrasia — burning tears, bland nose
- Apis — rosy puffy lids, thirstless
- Argentum nit — purulent, better cold
- Belladonna — hot, red, photophobia
Toothache
- Chamomilla — rage, unbearable pain
- Coffea — intolerable, acute senses
- Mercurius — offensive mouth, sweaty
- Staphysagria — after indignation
Dysentery
- Mercurius — offensive, bloody, night sweats
- Nux vom — constant urging, little passed
- Ipecac — with constant nausea
- Arsenicum alb — burning, anxious, food-poisoning
- Diospyros — tenesmus, remittent fever
Typhoid & low fevers
- Baptisia — dark drowsy, scattered-limb delirium
- Arsenicum alb — anxious, prostrated, midnight
- Pyrogenium — foul, restless, bounding
- Bryonia — dry, still, delirious about business
Mumps-type gland swellings
- Mercurius — offensive, sweaty
- Belladonna — hot, red, sudden
- Pulsatilla — gentle, changeable
- Phytolacca — throat and glands, radiating
Sunstroke & heat
- Glonoinum — surging head after the sun
- Belladonna — hot throbbing
- Aconite — sudden, frightened
- Veratrum alb — collapse with cold sweat
Seasickness & travel sickness
Hiccups
- Acidum sulphuricum — with trembling weakness
- Nux vom — spasmodic, irritable
- Ignatia — from emotions, sighing