Cellulitis
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Apis Mellifica | Swelling or puffing up of various parts Odema Red rosy hue Stinging pains Soreness Intolerance of heat, and slightest touch Acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner organs, serous membranes Extreme sensitiveness to touch and general soreness is marked Constricted sensations Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn off in the interior of the body Much prostration Skin sore, sensitive; stinging Sudden puffing up of whole body Afternoon chill, with thirst; worse on motion and heat External heat, with smothering feeling. Sweat slight, with sleepiness Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently Sleeps after the fever paroxysm After perspiration, nettle rash, also with shuddering Thirstless Craving for milk Suppressed urine, loaded with casts; frequent and involuntary; scanty, high colored Very drowsy Dreams full of care and toil Screams and sudden starting during sleep |
Heat in any form Touch Pressure Late in afternoon After sleeping In closed and heated rooms Right side. |
In open air Uncovering Cold bathing |
| Arnica Montana | Conditions quite similar to those resulting from
injuries, falls, blows, contusions Putrid phenomena Septic conditions Especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote, seems to have caused the present trouble Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated with impoverished blood, cardiac dropsy with dyspna Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained Bed feels too hard Affects the venous system inducing stasis Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots Tendency to hæmorrhage and low-fever states Tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not mature Sore, lame, bruised feeling Aversion to tobacco Skin black and blue Itching, burning, eruption of small pimples Febrile symptoms closely related to typhoid; shivering over whole body; heat and redness of head, with coolness of rest of body; internal heat; feet and hands cold; nightly sour sweats Longing for vinegar Distaste for milk and meat Canine hunger Dark brick-red sediment Comatose drowsiness; awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated bodies, anxious and terrible Horrors in the night Involuntary stools during sleep |
Least touch Motion Rest Wine Damp cold |
Lying down, or with head low |
| Arsenicum Album | All-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and
restlessness Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion. Irritable weakness Burning pains Unquenchable thirst Burning relieved by heat Fear fright and worry Degenerative changes Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition System under the stress of malignancy regardless of location Septic infections and low vitality Cannot bear the sight or smell of food Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time Craves acids, milk and coffee Long-lasting eructations Skin itching, burning, swellings; dema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching Icy coldness of body High temperature; periodicity marked with adynamia Septic fevers Paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion Cold sweats Great heat about 3 am Stool small, offensive, dark, with much prostration Urine scanty, burning, involuntary; albuminous Menses too profuse and too soon Leucorrha, acrid, burning, offensive, thin Disturbed, anxious, restless sleep; must have head raised by pillows Suffocative fits during sleep Sleeps with hands over head Dreams are full of care and fear |
Wet weather After midnight From cold, cold drinks, or food Seashore Right side |
From heat From head elevated Warm drinks. |
| Baptisia Tinctoria | Simulating low fevers Septic conditions of the blood Extreme prostration Indescribable sick feeling Great muscular soreness and putrid phenomena always are present All the secretions are offensive-breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc Livid spots all over body and limbs. Burning and heat in skin Chill, with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body Heat all over, with occasional chills Chill about 11 am No appetite Constant desire for water All symptoms worse from beer Menses too early, too profuse Sleepless and restless Nightmare and frightful dreams Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed Falls asleep while answering a question |
Humid heat Fog Indoors |
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| Crotalus Horridus | Low septic states General disorganization of the blood Hæmorrhagic diathesis Sleeps into his symptoms More right-sided in its action Malignant fevers of a hæmorrhagic or putrescent character Bloody sweat Cold sweats Swelling and discoloration, skin tense and shows every tint of color, with excruciating pain Sallow skin Yellow color of the whole body Great sensitiveness of skin of right half of body Hæmorrhage from every part of body Sore sensation relieved by pressure Intolerance of clothing around stomach Hungry, craves stimulants, sugar; averse to meat Prolonged menses Dark, bloody urine; casts; albuminous, dark, scanty Dreams of the dead Starting in sleep Yawning Smothering sensation when awaking |
Right side Open air Evening and morning In spring Coming on of warm weather Yearly On awaking Damp and wet Jar |
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| Lachesis | Hæmorrhagic tendency
Septic states When the system is thoroughly poisoned and the prostration is profound Melancholic disposition Ill effects of suppressed discharges Sensation of tension in various parts Cannot bear anything tight anywhere Hot perspiration, bluish, purplish appearance Dark blisters Bed-sores, with black edges Blue-black swellings Chilly in back; feet icy cold; hot flushes and hot perspiration; paroxysm returns after acids Craving for alcohol, oysters Any food causes distress Hungry, cannot wait for food Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow Intense excitement of sexual organs Patient sleeps into an aggravation Sudden starting when falling asleep Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep Wide-awake in evening |
After sleep Left side In the spring Warm bath Pressure or constriction Hot drinks Closing eyes |
Appearance of discharges Warm applications |
| Manganum Aceticum | Cellulitis, sub acute stage, promotes
suppuration and hastens regeneration Suppuration of skin around joints Red, elevated spots Itching; better, scratching Deep cracks in bends of elbows, etc Involuntary laughter and involuntary weeping and walking backwards Strongly exaggerated reflexes and physical disturbances Great accumulation of mucus Growing pains and weak ankles General soreness and aching; every part of the body feels sore when touched Flatulence menses too early and scanty Languor and sleepiness Vivid dreams Sleepy very early in evening |
Cold wet weather Change of weather |
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| Mercurius Iodatus Ruber | Small fissures and cracks; hard papules Scalded feeling on tongue Profuse saliva |
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| Rhus Tox | Tearing asunder pains Motion always "limbers up" the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a change of position Ailments from strains, over lifting, getting wet while perspiring Septic conditions Cellulitis and infections, carbuncles in early stages Septicemia Red, swollen; itching intense; vesicular Suppurative forms Adynamia fever; restless, trembling During heat, urticaria Chilly, as if cold water were poured over him, followed by heat and inclination to stretch the limbs Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst Bitter taste Desire for milk Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat Drowsy after eating Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid Dreams of great exertion Heavy sleep, as from stupor Sleepless before midnight |
During sleep Cold, wet rainy weather and after rain At night During rest Drenching When lying on back or right side |
Warm, dry weather Motion Walking Change of position Rubbing Warm applications From stretching out limbs |
| Silicea | Suppurative processes Silica patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse in winter Lack of vital heat Prostration of mind and body Great sensitiveness to taking cold Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants Ailments attended with pus formation Want of grit, moral or physical Skin delicate, pale, waxy Cracks at end of fingers Rose-colored blotches Scars suddenly become painful Pus offensive Every little injury suppurates Long lasting suppuration and fistulous tracts Dry finger tips Eruptions itch only in daytime and evening Chilliness; very sensitive to cold air Creeping, shivering over the whole body Cold extremities, even in a warm room Sweat at night; worse towards morning Suffering parts feel cold Disgust for meat and warm food Want of appetite; thirst excessive Sour eructations after eating A milky acrid leucorrha, during urination. Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body Night-walking; gets up while asleep Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head Frequent starts in sleep Anxious dreams Excessive gaping |
New moon In morning From washing During menses Uncovering Lying down Damp Lying on left side Cold |
Warmth Wrapping up head Summer In wet or humid weather |
| Vespa Crabo | Vasomotor symptoms of skin and mucous membranes Intense itching; burning Wheals, macules and swellings with burning, stinging and soreness. Dizzy, better lying on back Fainting Numbness and blindness Perspiration on parts laid on with itching Menstruation, preceded by depression, pain, pressure, and constipation |