HOMEOPATHIC FIRST AID FOR TRAVELERS
by Kimberlee Blyden-Taylor, ND
This first-aid "repertory" uses a 12 remedy kit.
The main "keynote" indications are listed after each homeopathic remedy. For more information on how to use homeopathy, check the "Links" page soon to appear on our website, or arrange a consult with Dr. Blyden-Taylor.
ACHES & PAINS * Arnica: Any "bruised" feeling. Great for sore muscles from over-exertion & "black & blue" marks.
* Belladonna: Throbbing pains, especially severe pains. Throbbing, "hammering" headache. Swollen red joints.
* Cantharis: Any burning pains. Great for actual burns or just the sensation of burning anywhere in the body.
* Colubrina: Headache from overindulgence in alcohol, food, or too much work. Classic "hangover" remedy.
* Ledum: Puncture wounds of any type. Bruising with blackness & puffiness (e.g. black eye)
* Rhus tox: Numbness and pins & needles of extremities. Pulled or torn muscles. Hot, painful swelling of joints.
COLDS/ COUGH/ THROAT * Aconite: Any symptom that comes on very quickly & intensely, esp'ly after exposure to cold, a fright or a shock.
* Apis: Heat, redness & swelling (e.g. sore throat). Any stinging pains.
* Arsenicum: Colds going into chest, with anxiety, restlessness and fatigue.
* Belladonna: Throbbing, cutting, or shooting pains. Severe eye, ear or throat infections; dry cough worse at night.
* Lycopodium: Dry, tickling, lingering cough. Right sided sore throat. Neglected infection.
* Rhus tox: Illness comes on after getting cold & wet. Throat red, sore & puffy. Dry, hoarse cough.
* Sulphur: Any illness that drags on without responding to treatment, or comes back after appearing to improve.
DIARRHEA * Aconite: Comes on quickly & intensely, esp'ly after exposure to cold, a fright or a shock. Bloody stool, cramping.
* Arsenicum: Anxiety & restlessness with fatigue and weakness. Foul smelling, watery stool. Burning diarrhea.
* Gelsemium: Any illness that causes weakness, trembling & aching. Diarrhea after emotional trauma.
* Lycopodium: Bloating, better for passing very noisy gas. Eating a tiny amount causes fullness. "Acid" stomach.
* Rhus tox: Stool is watery, frothy, bloody, slimy, or like "meat-water". Painful urging without stool.
* Sulphur: Hungry, but can't eat. Very thirsty. Heaviness/ "acid" stomach. Urgent diarrhea, esp'ly early morning.
EMOTIONAL * Aconite: Use for emotional or physical shock following an earthquake, trauma, accident, etc.
* Arsenicum: Anxiety & restlessness with fatigue and weakness.
* Colubrina: Very irritable & oversensitive. Aggressive & impatient.
* Gelsemium: Anxiety & trembling before on ordeal: exams, flying, etc. Drowsiness.
FEVER * Aconite: Comes on quickly & intensely, esp'ly after exposure to cold, a fright or a shock. Dry, burning heat.
* Arsenicum: Internal cold, with external heat. Anxiety & restlessness with fatigue and weakness.
* Belladona: Very high fever, with much moaning. Glassy eyes, red face, thirstless.
* Colubrina: Skin hot, but person extremely chilled. Cannot uncover.
* Gelsemium: Chills with aching alternating with heat. Chills up and down back. Thirstless.
* Rhus tox: Aching in limbs during fever. Chill in single parts. Likes to be covered.
SKIN/ BITES * Apis: Any stinging pains, with redness, heat, and swelling. (e.g. bee sting)
* Arnica: Crops of small boils. "Black & blue" marks; bruising.
* Belladonna: Red, dry, glossy, & hot. Red streaks extending up limbs (i.e. "blood poisoning").
* Cantharis: Any burning pains. Great for actual burns or just the sensation of burning anywhere in the body.
* Rhus tox: Intense itching with moist, crusting eruptions. Chicken pox, poison ivy/oak. Stinging nettles.
* Sulphur: Terrible itching, worse with heat, bathing and at night. Wounds fester & are slow to heal
VOMITING * Aconite: Violent vomiting that comes on quickly & intensely, esp'ly after exposure to cold, a fright or a shock.
* Cantharis: Vomit that burns throat as it is expelled.
* Colubrina: Sour or bitter vomit from overindulgence. Nausea greatly relieved by vomiting.
* Sulphur: Sour vomiting with heaviness in stomach. Acid stomach
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