Homeopathic medicines are extremely effective in treating any acute conditions that may arise at home or at work, like an injury, inflammation, fevers, colds, bleeding, burns and stings. Acute conditions are usually self-limiting, and of short duration. The sooner you are able to treat any given condition, the sooner you will begin to feel better and usually by-pass a full episode. Anything that lasts beyond a few days after taking any of the following medicines, should be given professional treatment. Here is a quick list of remedies and their therapeutic use. You can easily find any of these remedies at your local grocers or health food store.
#10 – Arsenicum
is a great remedy for food poisoning. If you suspect food poisoning especially from bad fish or meat, take this remedy as soon as possible to help alleviate the symptoms and prevent the symptoms from becoming more pronounced. It is also a great remedy to help alleviate anxiety. An individual who needs this remedy shows symptoms of debilitating weakness but with mental restlessness (they are always in a hurry). They are very anxious, nervous and restless and don’t want to be left alone. They even fear death quite acutely.
#9 – Bellis Perrenis
Think of this remedy when there are injuries which have caused damage to tissues deep in the body. Injuries to areas like the groin or stomach, or breast. ..like when punched with great force in the stomach, or damage by ramming into a blunt object. It acts upon the muscular fibers of the blood-vessels. Much muscular soreness. Lameness, as if sprained. Venous congestion, due to mechanical causes. First remedy in injuries to the deeper tissues. Results of injuries to nerves with intense soreness and intolerance of cold bathing. Traumatism of the pelvic organs.
#8 – Carbo Veg
This remedy is known to relieve problems with slow digestion, heartburn, bloating and nausea. A great remedy to have on hand if you chronically suffer from heartburn or indigestion, have over eaten during a meal or generally have slow digestion.
#7 – Rhus Toxicodendron
A great remedy for too many strains and overlifting during a move or lifting too heavy a weight at the gym. It’s used in muscle, tendon and connective tissue injuries. Initially, if you find that you are stiff and sore on first moving, but then you feel better after continued movement, then this is the remedy you need. An individual feels worse from damp and cold and better from rubbing, stretching and wrapping up warmly. It’s also a great remedy for shingles, hives and blister like eruptions like herpes.
#6 – Bryonia
A simple way of knowing of whether you need this remedy, is if you need to stay perfectly still during illness. If you feel aggravated by even the slightest movement, then this is the remedy for you. Bryonia's chief characteristic, is that the patient is very much aggravated by even the slightest movement. The pain is worse from even the slightest motion like stretching, walking, turning, etc. They feel better from rest, localized heat and pressure. They are irritable and want to be left alone.
#5 – Belladonna
This remedy is a must for parents. It’s a remedy used for very high fevers. If you are a parent reluctant to give your child a synthetic anti-inflammatory to help reduce your child’s fever, use Belladonna as a safe alternative. There is a sudden onset usually after getting chilled or overheated followed by a high fever and delirium. Children will have bright red and flushed faces, with hot and dry skin, glassy eyes and dilated pupils. Not only for children’s fevers, but can be used for heatstroke and sunstroke after too much sun.
#4 – Nux Vomica
Party animals listen up, this is the remedy for over eating and over drinking and a great way to not only alleviate a hangover but help to prevent one too. Take this remedy before you head out to the pub or nightclub and then again in the morning on waking. Your head and stomach will thank you for it.
#3 – Apis
is THE remedy for bites and stings. You know you need this remedy when the area has lots of swelling and redness, just think of a nasty bee bite – ouch! The wound looks puffy with a rosy redness, and shiny appearance and lots of heat. Pains are stinging and burning, or like hot needles which makes you cry out. Also a great remedy for first degree burns.
#2 – Calendula Officinalis
Second only to Arnica in your first aid kit. It’s a chief remedy for healing wounds, cuts, and burns. It helps to stimulate the formation of healthy scar tissue. Calendula can be taken orally or applied as a tincture or cream.
#1 – Arnica Montana
is by far and wide your best bet when having suffered from an injury of any kind, and can be followed by other specific remedies. It is usually the medicine of choice in accidents, for shock and mental or physical exhaustion, or pain. It has the ability to minimize trauma, soreness or inflammation taken before or after exercise, surgery, dental work or any other kind of strenuous physical activity. It basically helps to get the healing process started.
Jasontimmer
35 / Male
Comments: 4
Posted on May 25, 2008, 6:14 am
I got to #8 and had to stop, register, and comment on account of how incredibly irresponsible this article is. You think the best remedy for someone who is starved of oxygen and can't breathe is a fucking herb? How about CPR? Heimlich maneuver? Some idiot's gonna read this and think "Carbo Veg" is the best remedy for asphyxiation. Revise this shit before someone gets hurt.
SpiritedOne
42 / Female
Comments: 12
Posted on May 25, 2008, 5:59 pm
What would you recommend for sunburn?
Jasontimmer
35 / Male
Comments: 4
Posted on May 26, 2008, 6:14 am
Spirited- aloe vera gel is great. best to buy a plant so you have it fresh. they're cheap.
Posted on May 26, 2008, 11:45 am
Hi Jasontimmer, I certainly don't mean for this article to be read and the remedies to be used INSTEAD of CPR or any other emergency intervention if called for. The point is, these remedies can help 'aid' in recovery along with traditional medicine. It's written with the understanding that everyone should use common sense first. Having said that, I appreciate your concern and will revise the article.
Jasontimmer
35 / Male
Comments: 4
Posted on May 26, 2008, 5:09 pm
Thank you. unfortunately there's just too many people out there who lack common sense. great article.
Posted on May 26, 2008, 5:58 pm
A great homeopathic remedy for sunburn is called Urtica urens. It's for those really intense burns, with an itchy, crawling and stinging kind of feeling. Aloe vera in homeopathic form can also be useful and is less messy than the plant form.
Jasontimmer
35 / Male
Comments: 4
Posted on May 26, 2008, 7:25 pm
I hate to be causing trouble again, but really it's the messy gel in the aloe that soothes the burn. I've never understood the homeopathic "less is more" ideology. I'm an RN so maybe I'm biased in the way of modern medical understanding of disease and injury.
Posted on May 27, 2008, 6:15 am
Not causing trouble at all...a homeopathic preparation although diluted is more potent. It's based on the law of similars and acts as an energetic 'match' to a specific symptom. The aloe vera gel would be used on the basis of the law of opposites. Place something cool to something that burns (hot). It will help to alleviate symptoms but only for a little while. Law of similars acts to cure. It's very different to what modern medical understanding is but extremely effective just the same.
