Single Remedies

Aconite Nap 30x (250 tabs)

“fear [can border on terror] with anxiety. Fear of death i.e. before an operation, a plane flight or during labor. Frightened in a crowd or a busy street, or in the underground.”

-- Miranda Castro - Homeopathic Guide to Stress

Keynotes and uses

• Anxiety & Shock-Fearful, restless, panicking nerves from fright, anger, grief, & nightmares…
• Colds – First Stage – Sudden colds, acute fevers with sudden onset after cold or fright.
• Inflammation Symptoms – Teething, burning bursting headache, sudden acute ear pain, sudden acute fever…..
• Modalities – Better fresh air, rest. Worse cold dry wind, warm rooms, night, touch. Onset cold wind or fright….

Arnica Montana 30x (250 tabs)

“Arnica is a traumatic remedy par excellence.
Mind… Never well since a fright or grief. History of severe physical trauma with [lasting] mental or emotional effects. Robbery or rape victims.”

-- Robin Murphy, Lotus Materia Medica

Keynotes and uses

• Anxiety & Shock – Minimizes trauma, old and new. In shock repels touch, help.
• First Aid – Bruising, bleeding, trauma, and swelling after injuries, blows, dental work, surgery, childbirth, etc… Backache, joint & muscle pain from strain or exercise.
• Modalities – Better lying with head low. Worse touch, jarring and exertion.

Arsenicum Alb 30x (250 tabs)

“Vithoulkas uses the term, ‘insecurity' to describe the essence of this remedy, by which the he means that the patient has am often over-whelming sense of vulnerability in the world and fear for his well being and material security.

-- Roger Morrison, Desktop Guide

Keynotes and uses

• Anxiety/Emotions – Extreme worry, anxiety, fear, panic, insomnia, fear over health issues, restlessness, trembling.
• Colds, Hay fever, Asthma, - Burning mucus, wheezing, sneezing, and coughing.
• Digestion issues – Stomach flu, or tainted food effects, violent vomiting, burning restless.
• Pain & Inflammation – Burning frontal headaches fever, burning restless.
• Modalities – Better for heat, except headaches, better company. Worse for cold. Onset from just after midnight to 2am.

Belladonna 30x (250 tabs)

Belladonna suits happy, easy-going children who become difficult and obstinate when ill, and are then prone to tantrums.

-- Miranda Castro, Complete Homeopathy

Keynotes and uses

• Fever, Heat & Flu – Very hot sudden fevers with radiating heat, flushed face, dilated pupils. Heat exhaustion/heat stroke. Flu with restless hot fever. Hot flashes.
• Cold & Cough – Hot swollen sore throat, dry barking cough, fever, ear pain.
• Pain & Inflammation – Burning, throbbing pain – dizzying headaches, ear pain, teething, nerve pain, swollen red joints.
• Mental/Emotional – Fiery temper, children's temper tantrums, restlessness, hypersensitivity.
• Modalities – Worse for heat, sun, light, noise, hormonal changes. Better from pressure, lying down. Onset – sudden change in temperature – often after exposure to cold when wet.

Bryonia Alb 30x (250 tabs)

“People firmly rooted in the material world, objective & business-like, not hindered by much emotion…. Stock brokers, businessmen. They are sober, methodical, censorious, reliable, economical and dry. When lacking this sure ground, they become irritable, anxious & sad.”

-- F. Vermuelen, Condensed Synoptic Materia Medica

Keynotes and uses

• Fever, Heat, & Flu – Slow moving painful flu and chill ridden fever with lingering cough & fatigue.
• Colds & coughs – Dry hacking cough, dry throat.
• Pain & Inflammation – Bursting frontal headaches worse for motion or light. Swollen, hot, red aching joints. Stitching pain, stiffness in back & neck.
• Digestive – Gastric flu, constipation with nausea & soreness.
• Mental/Emotional – Grumpy loner's when ill.
• Modalities – Worse for motion, jarring, company, heat. Better lying on painful side, rest, pressure, cool open air.

Carbo Veg 30x (250 tabs)

“Two very distinctive characteristics which often accompany the Carbo Veg state 1) The  first is a type of “air hunger” which makes the patient ask for fresh air or to be fanned … 2) Very often the digestion is weak causing bloating, indigestion, and tremendous flatulence and eructation.”

-- Rodger Morrison, MD, Desktop Guide

Keynotes and uses

• Digestive Issues – Gas, belching, heart burn, nausea, bloating. Sluggish digestion, effects of rich fatty foods.
• Colds & Coughs – Colds with sneezing, congestion, violent cough, hoarseness, wheezing.
• Fatigue & Anxiety – Convalescence with great fatigue, faintness, sluggish, irritability. Fear of dark.
• Modalities – Better for fresh cool air, loose clothing, and rest. Worse for extreme heat or cold, rich fatty food, loss of fluids; in the evening.

Chamomilla 30x (250 tabs)

“Chamomilla can relieve women who suddenly turn quarrelsome, obstinate, or even a bit mean with PMS or when labor or after-birth pains are intolerable.

-- Pam M.

Keynotes and uses

• Mental Emotional – Stubborn, angry, irritable, contrary, inconsolable, sleepless & restless.
• Colds, Fever – Fever due to teething, colic, ear congestion, colds, marked by one red cheek, dry cough, acute asthma, etc….
• Pain & Inflammation – Overly sensitive to pain.
• Modalities – Better for warm wet weather, being carried, sweating. Worse for wind, coffee, fresh air.

Gelsemium 30x tabs

“Gelsemium is for those paralyzed with anxiety and fear, mentally and physically, before an important event...

-- Miranda Castro, Homeopathic Guide to Stress

Keynotes and uses

• Anxiety – Anticipation nerves lead to dullness, dizziness, trembling before performances, exams
• Colds, Hay fever, Asthma
• Digestion Issues – Nervous stomach, painless diarrhea.
• Pain & Inflammation – Heavy pulsating headache. After head injuries if heavy or dizzy.
• Modalities – Better for sweating. Worse for exertion, anxiety.

Helpar Sulph 30x tabs

“The Helpar personality is characterized by a sense of vulnerability on all levels – mental, emotional, and physical….. The desire for protection which the Helpar patient feels may lead him/her to limit his activity, even to the point of agoraphobia”

-- Rodger Morrison, Desktop Guide

Keynotes and uses

• Mental Emotional – Sadness & irritability. Sensitive to touch, rudeness, pain and cold.
• Colds, Coughs, Flu – Chilly congestion, flu and colds with dry, rattling or choking cough.
• Skin Issues – Sores, abscesses, acne, cold sores teeth & gums.
• Modalities – Better warmth. Worse for cold, wind. Onset after cold wind.

Hypericum Perf 30x tabs

“Mind – Removes the mental & physical consequences of injury, fright and effects of shock. Head injury. Great nervous depression following wounds. Melancholy. Makes mistakes in writing, forgets what she/he wanted to say. Weakness of memory.

-- Frans Vermuelan, Synoptic Materia Medica

Keynotes and uses

• Pain/Nerve Injuries – Sharp, Shooting radiating pain in nerve rich areas – fingers, toes, elbows, coccyx, spine, teeth…. Head injuries – even old injuries with lasting effects. Blows, surgery, toothache, cuts, childbirth, bruises, punctures, inflamed animal or insect bites.
• Back – pain – pains extended down legs or up spine.
• Modalities – Worse for cold, pressure or motion.

Ignatia 30x tabs

“Ignacia is valuable at all stages in life, for sensitive children who have developed sore throats or a tummy-ache or insomnia or frightened or homesick for a teenagers. Men & women at all ages and in all walks of life who have suffered inwardly and become introspective and moody…. Suffering from ill health as a result.”

-- Miranda Castro, Homeopathy Handbook

Keynotes and uses

• Mental/Emotional – Effects of grief, homesickness, anger, trauma or ‘overload', fainting, sleeplessness, & nightmares.
• Colds & Coughs – Lump in the throat sensation [may or not be cold related], chilling very thirsty.
• Pain & Inflammation – Stabbing nervous pain headaches.
• Digestive – Tummy-ache or indigestion with sinking feeling.
• Modalities – Worse for stress, coffee, tobacco, and cold air. Better warmth and food. Onset emotional stress.

Kali Bich 30x tabs

Common traits of all Kali's: conservative, regular, proper, down to earth. “Lots of emphasis on morality and what is right, what is wrong…. Each of them with a slightly different flavor… Something gluey about them; carries the properness of the Kali's a little bit further; goes into details; the perfect bureaucrats.”

Keynotes and uses

• Sinus, Colds & Cough – Stubborn ropy mucus causes a gagging croupy cough, painful sinus trouble, post-nasal drip and allergies.
• Pain & Inflammation – Sinus migraine- like headaches, often daily, over whole head. Rheumatic joint & sciatic pain.
• Digestive – Indigestion from beer, slimy diarrhea.
• Modalities – Worse morning, getting-chilled in the summer. Better warmth.

Lycopodium 30x tabs

If a Lycopodium child feels a sense of failure, this can play havoc with his ego, which is usually rather brittle or frail.

-- Robin Hayfield, the Family Homeopathic

Keynotes and uses

• Mental/Emotional – Exam and performance nerves. Anxious worriers, who bounce between shy and bossy.
• Colds & Coughs – Congestion symptoms – blocked ear pain, blocked nasal passages, sinus congestion and colds with yellow mucus and stubborn cough.
• Pain & Inflammation – Sinus headache, Back and joint pain.
• Digestion – Acid-related colicky indigestion and heartburn, constipation leads to diarrhea.
• Modalities – Worse in the evening, in stuffy spaces and pressure [on sore areas]. Better fresh air and warm bed.

Mercurius Viv 30x tabs

“Need to create order in chaotic world. Want everybody to know and keep their place; very conservative to injustice. Need a steady life and a stable society to counterbalance their inner instability. Always discontented, discontented with everything. All or nothing.”

-- Frans Vermeulen, Synoptic Materia Medica

Keynotes & uses

• Mental/Emotional – Indecisive, restless, lack confidence, indifferent, instability.
• Colds, Etc – Congestion with yellow-green mucus. Cough dry at night, loose by day. Swollen sore throat, ear pain, sinusitis, chilly fever.
• Digestive – Halitosis, heartburn, hiccups, slimy diarrhea.
• General – Oily perspiration, odorous discharge. Thirst for cold drinks. Sensitive to temperature changes.
• Modalities – Worse at night, with heat, sweating. Better steady mild temperatures and rest.

Nux Vomica 30x tabs

“They can be spiteful, stubborn and irritable on the one hand, and extremely sensitive and very easily
Offended on the other.

-- In The Complete Homeopathy Handbook, Miranda Castro describes Nux vomica children

Keynotes & uses

• Mental/Emotional - Effects if stress, mental strain, anger. Impatience, insomnia, restless fatigue. Hypersensitivity to noise, odors, light, cold.
• Colds, Hay fever & Flu – Burning mucus, sore throat, cough, chillness, and joint pain with fever. Sinus congestion.
• Pain & Inflammation – Headaches, pressing lower backache pain. Ear pain.
• Digestive – Constipation, heartburn, gas, stomach flu, car sickness & hangovers.
• Modalities – Worse in the evening, in stuffy places and pressure [on sore areas]. Better fresh air and warm bed. Links to stress, alcohol, coffee, stimulants, sleep aids.

Phosphorus 30x tabs

“The Phosphorus child: They make friends quickly and easily. And they are open and honest
about their problems and opinions… These children require much attention and feedback from
others, or they become lonely and without an aim or focus”

-- Robin Hayfield, the Family Homeopathy

Keynotes & uses

• Mental – Nervous fatigued, fear of storms, darkness, being alone, sleepless.
• Cold, Etc... – Violent coughs, burning sore throat, profuse colds, congestion, fever with appetite. Painless hoarseness from singing.
• Digestive – Vomiting, indigestion, diarrhea.
• Pain, Etc... – Throbbing headaches, nosebleeds, excessive bleeding, tooth extractions.
• Modalities – Worse weather turns cold or too much heat. Better for sleep, cold drinks.

Pulsatilla 30x tabs

“These are gentle, muld, yielding, individuals…. They are highly emotional with surprising mood swings, weeping one moment, irritable the next and then full of anxiety. Because of their dependency, of opinions of others are terribly important to them and they worry about this. There is a tendency to claustrophobia.”

-- Miranda Castro, Homeopathic Guide to Stress

Keynotes & uses

• Mental – Moodiness, anxious dreams, fear being alone; need attention, reassurance, sympathy.
• Colds, Hay fever, Etc. – Violent fitful night coughs, stubborn mucus, dry sore throat, ear congestion, chilly fever, thick eye discharge.
• Digestive – Rich fatty foods cause gas, heartburn, nausea, and car sickness.
• Pain Etc. – Nervous headache, PMS pain, dull aching, hot flashes, labor.
• Modalities – Worse hot, stuffy room, better fresh air.

Rhus Tox 30x tabs

“A homeopath recommended I try Rhus tox for my rheumatoid arthritis. I was hesitant to try it because I am extremely allergic to poison ivy. However, I consented and I had such good results that now; Rhus tox is my best friend, especially on a cold rainy day when I'm stiff and hurting all over.”

Keynotes & uses

• Pain etc. – Joint, back & neck pain and stiffness, better moving. Sprains, spinal injury, sciatica. Headache.
• Skin & Inflammation – Poison ivy, blistering itchy rashes, hives, swelling. Cold sores. Eye irritation, swollen eyelids.
• Mental – Extremely restless, sleeplessness.
• Flu – Achy fever, swollen throat, hoarseness, chills.
• Modalities – Worse cold damp weather and on initial movement, better with gentle motion, heat. Craves fresh air.

Ruta Grav 30x tabs

Keynotes & uses

• First Aid & Joint Pain – Injuries involving cartilage, tendons, and bone surfaces: Sprains and repeat joint injuries including carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, and trick knee. Backache especially lower back from strain old or new. Aching soreness. Eye strain & related headaches. Bone bruises.
• Modalities – Better for warmth. Worse for cold, damp.

Sepia 30x tabs

Keynotes & uses

On Male Sepia – “The best word to describe the patient is “wimpy, “that is to say weak in spirit and confidence and masculinity… worn-out and pitifully inadequate.”

-- Roger Morrison, Desktop Guide

• Mental Emotional – Emotional erratic, often indifferent, great fatigue, weariness, mental dullness.
• Pain, Etc – Lower back pain, pressing headache, bearing down pains, menstrual pains.
• Female Symptoms – PMS, headaches, heavy periods, hot flashes, menopause.
• Flu/Colds – Post nasal drip, constant cough, dirty yellow mucus.
• Digestive & Urinary – Morning sickness, nausea, travel sickness, constipation, bed-wetting, frequent urination.
• Modalities – Worse sweating, standing, during periods, better with vigorous exercise.